chicote

I’ll also note it’s been really slow for me, though I figure we probably have enough data points by now 😛

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/postal-services-suspend-us-usa-deliveries-how-will-it-affect-you It looks like it’s a temporary suspension for the next few days

A lot of the lower engagement is due to how Instagram structures their algorithm; I don’t remember the figures but I read a piece last year about how, for the average poster, an infinitesimally small fraction of your followers are actually shown any of your new posts on their news feed. That number goes up a bit if you’re posting a ‘reel’ (basically at that point you’re on TikTok though) but either way you still have astonishingly low—like, single digit low—natural reach for any new post. So I guess I’d argue that, unless you’re shilling sponsored content or just re-posting your made-for-tiktok viral videos, instagram kind of made itself obsolete. If the goal was to share photos and writing about your life or hobby with a group of say 100 friends you’d be better off writing them all postcards, at least they’d probably get read!

Stevenson mechanic shirt, canes m41058 (I think?), flat head engineers

@scooby those are awesome!!! Excited to see how you break them in!

Just getting off work, variation on my outfit from a few days ago. 1960’s Gant shirt, Duke belt, 50’s Soviet watch, Cane’s M41150 and Lone Wolf Carpenters.

@oomslokop oh wow cool! I wanna see the black version, don’t think I’ve come across that. But yea the fabric on this shirt is beautiful, and really comfortable too (though I’m often told i am exactly the proportions of a gangly broad shouldered salaryman …)

Inherited this very cool Soviet watch, don’t know much about it but I really like the look. It keeps time really well and even has a mechanical alarm! The twisty hand sets the alarm time and the top knob winds it up, and it buzzes (for quite a while depending on how much you’ve wound it) when the hour hand aligns with it. So cool!

Flat head, canes, lone wolf. I love this shirt!

I can technically squeeze into them but it wouldn’t feel right.. those are destined for someone who’s a proper 28

https://jp.mercari.com/item/m50632116776 Deadstock size 28 M41001 for under $100 for anyone in smaller size!!!!

@julian-wolf wowww those are sooo sick!!!! What was your & your partners dyeing process, was it just one dip?

I feel these days more often than not the whole “made in X country” thing is either a xenophobic dog whistle made in bad faith, or a “good faith” desire to reshore industrial manufacturing in societies that have now developed post-industrial economies and are probably .. I mean definitely .. never going back. the problem with the latter argument is that offshoring is a natural result of globalized neoliberalism and the free trade agreements that come with it. It’s just a reality that practically all manufacturing these days requires materials & labor from many countries often on opposite sides of the globe. I’m sure you all have seen those videos on how a single t-shirt takes materials from like a half dozen countries and travels twice around the world before it’s stocked in some mall in Nebraska for $8.99 - or if not that maybe the video from when the U.S.’ steel tariffs were first announced showing the impact that would have on the price of “U.S. Made” Ford pickup trucks (they went up many many thousands of dollars… because most of the truck’s parts come from overseas). And all the executives at Ford were wringing their hands saying it would take decades to shift their manufacturing back to the U.S., but still somehow making the claim their vehicles are made here. That is to say, I’m not sure why any one shoemaker that claims their stuff is made in the U.S. is getting flak more than any other one for that not actually being the case. I love my Mexican huaraches, Colombian congas and Iranian rug because they’re made by amazing and talented craftspeople, not because they have some magical quality derived from their country of origin. I wish we could evolve this whole conversation to have an appreciation for the many many hands and cultures that come together to make everything in the modern world. It’s really amazing when you think about it! Instead we pretend that 3/4 of the global supply chain doesn’t exist and that we’re too good for goods made, even in part, in less developed countries… and we do so surrounded by things made in those very countries!!

Belafonte / canes / lone wolf

I got these a few weeks ago and have hardly had them off long enough to get good pictures, but here are a few. Size 29 M41057, at this point my favorite pair of M-Series jeans that I’ve gotten so far. The fit is perfect! A couple pics from a hike to an alpine lake earlier: