Iron Horse

Let me look for one I found months back...

13 hours ago, Uncle Karl said:

Wow! ! It is starch, is not it! ! ! ! Thank you for showing me! Thank you! Do you mix it with water moderately?

Mix it with very warm water, put in a spray bottle. Wash your clothes, then spray the starch on and then iron the clothes.

You can find lots of examples of starching collars up until the 1920s, for example:

A tutorial from Sinead O'Connor:

Undersized as they come up shorter than advertised?

Offering lots of inseam options is certainly viable for bigger brands. For a smaller brand I’d pick one inseam, which would likely be 34 and offer the option of hemming if people want it shorter.

16 minutes ago, dau said:

yes, and guys like me who need inseams no less than 33 are left aside (luckily pbj and ooe shrink to 33" inseam)

Yeah, I'd say offering the options of 34 and 32 would be best; otherwise you're leaving taller guys out.

FWIW, I measured these at a 31" waist, but I'm a 33 and they were almost falling down on me. Felt more like a 34!

This sounds like back when people were trying to starch their jeans. 

Maybe that's why these days certain top brands are moving to 32 being the standard inseam. 

To be fair they have washed out to dad jeans level. 

Don't be sad, be happy that you could take part!

$239 Canadian is actually like $23 USD, to be fair.

I say go for it! I wish I could wear hats, but my head is small, and they always make me look like a chemo patient.

Lots of great brands doing hats though, from Stetson to Lofgren, H.W. Dog & Co, Wellema, the Fat Hatter, Hufvud, etc.

26 minutes ago, 428CJ said:

Thank you for the recommendation.

I have seen all sorts of pearloid snaps out there, but it's very hard, usually impossible, to determine whether they are just the usual crap, or something well made. Any experience with good and bad western pearloid snaps from certain sources?

Thank you.

The only way to get quality ones it seems is to put in a wholesale order, such as with YKK, or to yank the buttons off an old shirt or find some spare ones on eBay or Etsy. 

The only other options are wholesale orders off Alibaba or Indiamart, neither of which are of interest. 

9 hours ago, Foxy2 said:

Trump's and his Cohorts' claims of being non-elitist, working class...

Gramsci would likely agree that Trump's model (T?) is in the mold of Henry Ford.

@mpukas Try Smoky Sumi (aka Kaijin X):

http://smoky-sumis-store.biz/mens-accessories-3.html

@428CJ Your case is difficult; I know how hard it can be to source pearl snaps.Try Etsy for starters:

https://www.etsy.com/market/pearl_snap_buttons

You could also thrift a cheap western shirt and cannibalize it for the buttons.

On 12/7/2017 at 1:25 AM, Cucoo said:

Yeah, I just remember feeling that Bronson got jumped on unfairly in that case, their shirt had been up months before there was even talk of the TCB one. And speaking of Bronson, I have two of their vent hole work shirts that have been around for years, unbeatable quality at the price point (they've been discounted to under €30 for ages) but more importantly, I don't really remember any shirts in that style until Rite Stuff came around

Being upfront about your inspiration, like they are in this case, makes it more ok, doesn't it? They even show the original patents.

Anyways, I don't have a horse in that race, just my two cents. I think you should've gone with that fabric you mentioned, look at it this way, you maybe would have made someone who thought "that fabric would make a nice scarf" pretty happy  

What...I take back everything I said about those bastards at Bronson!  I kid, I kid! 

Yeah, if I do scarves again then I'll certainly look at those again and just say...

7 hours ago, ALB said:

A $35 workshit is pretty insane presuming quality is pretty good. Beats even red cloud stuff. How do they get such low prices?

It's made in China. 

There can be only one.

Wilford Brimley is...The Highlander.

4 hours ago, volvo240thebest said:

no no it's not at all the same mechanism you fool uneducated heathen!
Napoletana makes a drip brew (we say percolato in italiano) coffee,

Did you say percolating?

The Citron pre-rusted nickel buckle and the actual rusty buttons from my Levi's Japan S702XX:

28 minutes ago, Cucoo said:

No, I get that but it was kinda funny in this case because copying that shirt was the same as doing a sawtooth  

I actually had that instance in mind. It just perfectly illustrates the "optics" of a situation. "It's not wrong or illegal, but the timing seems fishy." Basically what CNN is telling me about the Russia investigation(s). I ran into this when I was picking fabrics for scarves; I knew I wanted one in wabash dot stripe, and the other was up for decision. I looked over all manner of indigo-based fabric swatches, and there were a few in particular from one mill that were great. Problem is, the previous year, Freewheelers used them to make scarves/shirts (and Jelado used them in shirts). If I were to use the same fabric, I'd likely be viewed as copying them (these are not custom fabrics, they're off the rack). Muh optics won out and I decided against picking one of them, welp. 

5 minutes ago, Cucoo said:

Everything's a remix

To be fair, I understand the reluctance with hobbyists to embrace designs coming from China; it's hard for us on the outside to see what's going on in China thanks to the Great Wall of the language barrier, but trust me, a lot of denim designers and brands are being copied like this season's Burberry purses within China (I'm not including Bronson in this, I think their hearts/heads are in the right place). I'm talking wholesale copying of original designs. In one case, store owner/brand designer in question would get e-mails from the guys in China who ripped off his design asking what his next designs would be, so that they could copy those too. It boggles the mind. But that's a whole different can of worms. The one in question, I would agree, it's all a remix; what matters to me is if the product is good. If your design is good, people will copy it, but design isn't just about how things look, it's about how they work (thanks for that one, Steve Jobs).

8 hours ago, Claytonimus said:

These two fabrics are awfully familiar!
The shirt I'm wearing is Stevenson Overall. Other shirt is Flat Head (images found on Yahoo Auctions Japan). Wonder who did it first? I don't actually care when this thing happens.
I think it's actually kind of cool.

This is likely better in the Blunders thread, but it's an interesting topic. Was TFH's fabric custom-made for them (they're one of the few brands who actually has custom fabrics, most brands buy what the mills offer because a custom run is a lot of money) and SOC liked it enough to make something similar? If so, is that sort of cribbing/theft/inspiration/homage more or less valid than everyone and their grandmother trying to make a repro of Levi's 501? Is there a moral absolutist in the house who's willing to put their foot down instead of saying, "Well, all interpretations are valid"?   

John made his first run of Champion sneakers in frog camo; the fabric is nothing new, but using it to make sneakers was. Was Visvim just trend-hopping then? Notice how in the past few years everyone made gum sole sneakers (and frog camo everything) and now John has moved on to black soles. Or was BAPE actually responsible for the frog camo revival? 

Something like this was related to me by a store/brand owner; he's been making a 1940's US Mail bag for about 12 years now. A few years ago, at a Japanese trade show, a popular Japanese brand owner, who also makes a US Mail bag, was with his friend who accused store owner A of "copying his design." Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. This is that muddy line; if no one makes sawtooth shirts, then a brand makes one based on a 1940s Levi's shirt, it's popular, and suddenly every brand is making sawtooths, the idea likely didn't come from a lucky vintage score, but from seeing what the competition was doing. But what if brand B's version is better? Ah, the free market...anyway, I'm rambling. 

3 hours ago, ALB said:

Ah, so insta is where it's at. Don't have one though and won't bother making one.

In cases such as this it might be worth it; if nothing else the IM function is great for reaching folks who don't check their email much. 

Seems like plain-toe six-inch laceups are the boots du jour; nice to see since if you look back at photos of farmers and other assorted workers of the early 1900s this was just about the most popular style.

9 minutes ago, ALB said:

Well, I'm just curious at the moment to see whether or not I have another bookmark soon.

But I am curious in a west ride long sleeve that's available at 49ers.

I'd hit them or the Wild One up but through Instagram. There's also Mr Oldman, which has a Rakuten account.

If those don't pan out, Mayclub is one of West Ride's biggest stockists outside of Japan.

2 hours ago, ALB said:

I forget but do 49ers and the wild one ship internationally? I sent an email to the 49ers store but got no response and took it be a no.

What specifically are you after?

Don't hem and haw, tell us what you really think!