bartlebyyphonics

2 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

In an ideal world t'would be lovely but my ride to work bears no resemblance to the tweed run..  commuting, i'm usually caning it on a road bike in all weathers wearing a shakedry gore jacket, jersey, track pants and chucks which i can easily get dry before my ride home.. if i'm riding MTB, i'm usually beard deep in mud wearing a tee, old combat shorts and Vans which all go in the wash when i get home... I bought the Brakey before we moved house and i became a full time cyclist.

I would rather have the £££'s than see it trashed in the workshop.. most of my activities out of the workshop are centered around the outdoors/doing stuff which i have more (dare i say) suitable clothing for.. i think i've only worn sufu-style boots maybe once or twice in the last few years, tis why i don't hit the boots thread up anymore.

edit- whoops "that you ride cycles not motorcycles" yes.. sorry bartles, i was on my way out the door.. I will get the hang of this 'reading' malarkey one day..

fair enough!

from your original post couldn't tell if you were really committed, so just was trying to find a way to divert any potential seller's regret as it is hard to recall a better fw fit and style combo of you and that jacket [and that isn't even me trying to be nice...]

but, yes, a jacket that isn't worn is closet clutter, it is true. 

from wearing my sears perfecto rip off I am amazed at how practical it is; but it stops at the waist; less overcoat-ish than a car-coat, so more of a type 1 / blouson option... also as a pre-thrashed c.40 yr old piece I am less precious about it than I would be with many other things I own...

good luck with the sale!

@Double 0 Soul - seems a pity to be rid of such a well fitting top line garment... what is stopping you from wearing it? (that you ride cycles not motor-cycles or open top cars as its design intended?); can't imagine it will age badly and there may be a 'time of life' when it hits a sweet spot? what happens if you sub it for your type 1 for other activities than the workshop?

[edit; plus, also, ignore me, I'm a goddam hoarder...]

anyway, should be posting this in 'old pix' thread, but feel this fits better here... one of Chris Killip's photographs of bikers from the Isle of Man TT races... 30s grizzly meets 70s fringing (but in werewolf mode) with a pompadour reaching for heaven... 

On 2/28/2022 at 1:55 PM, volvo240thebest said:

Here we go beautiful people!

final submission rules:

Picture rules: Maximum 8 pictures
Picture submittance deadline: 14th March

Please send the pictures to [email protected]
Title: TCB WW2 fade contest/ your contestant number and your nickname

How to judge: Each TCB member decides their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
1st place-3 points
2nd place-2 points
3rd place-1 points
The person who gets the most point wins.

As you all know, the contest had lived a life of its own on multiple platforms, due to language barrier many JP didn't manage to create an account on sufu.
Ryo would like to have all photos also to make a tcb contest gallery on Tcb website.

I guess it doesn't hurt if we want to make a final submission thread here on sufu for the sake of posterity, but as I wrote above the evaluation and official submission will have to be made by email.
 

hey ppl! reminder; today's the last day to get that email in...

for that Clyde Stubblefield drum sample, but also for what looks like a funky denim tux for the front cover...

'turn it loose... 'cos it's a mother...'

no beef today, just indigo, cotton, horsehide and cxl...

aero-orslow-tcb-russell moccasin

20 hours ago, sven said:

@bartlebyyphonics Really dig the fit of your 40's. How do they fit in the waist for you?
Edit: I guess what I'm really asking is if you sized up to get that fit. 

hey: thanks for that...

ashamedly not really sizing up much here; a 38 is def not falling off me, it is a comfortable fit round my middle aged expanding middle; fwiw I cannot abide a tight fit in terms of restrictiveness and quite enjoy a dropped diaper butt look... a 40" waist - which from experience is what I would consider sized up compared to actual waist measurement - would be very falling off however... [and I guess sizing up / down is all pretty relative...] - also went for a roomier size in the competition as I know I more likely to stop wearing things for being too small rather than being too big

[... as you are undoubtedly aware: the tcb chart seems to have the s40s w.38 at just under 36" when one washed and the w.40 is listed as just under 38"; the point I was trying to make earlier is that all three pairs [all admittedly at the upper end of the size scale] I have worn - of 50s, 20s and 40s - end up - after wash, dry, wear n stretch - pretty much bang on their tagged waist size...] - so I wouldn't size up if the 50s you are already wearing are roomy

repeating myself: I think ... get the size that works for you in the 50s [again, more useless info; used to wear 36 in 50s, now too 'husky' for them [have passed them on within the family] and now 38 s40s is happytown for me, not because I am sizing up relative to the 36; rather I am bloating up from too many pies and not enough exercise...]

in my experience tcb 50s 36 ended up 36 in waist after washing n wearing

and again: for me 38 in 20s and 40s both ended as 38 in waist after washing n wearing...

pretty consistent in my experience...

[iirc in the comp it seems like the big variation was in the smaller sizes...]

2 hours ago, chicote said:

the one thing I wonder is how the rise feels now, years on… i worry I (and others) have been spoiled by the tcb 40s and other belly-button-obscuring cuts, as is the case when putting on my old tender 129s, something about that mid-rise feels mildly exposed and even restricted…

yupyupyup... roll on a tender 125 comp... anyone have those actual f.&b. rise measurements for them? ('cos a 30 cm fr is feeling reel skimpy right now after 34cm!)?

oh

very

yes

I like the mode: lets go ppl: more final fits to finish this off!

they were-are great jeans; how did-do you best like wearing them? best fit of the period? or how they softly drape now in the twilight...

yes to warehouse '37!

And to great fits @JRendon02!

& loving your pair @scooby - those spaced back pockets tho...

hey @goodrain

those are sz5 (I am wearing around w.38 these dayz): and yes: 132 are def wide: what see particular to them is relative middling rise (both front and back) to generous thigh width that keeps going down ... combined with heavy fabric that can be heavy on the hips... w. very different top-block & thigh to the tcb50s even if the hem is the same[-ish]

but: fabric / fades / shapes is worth the effort... [I say this from my previous experience as slimmer wearer of a carrot-ish 130 sz.4 ... where I kept the extra inseam as it gave weight to the slimmer profile]

plus: I think a 25 inch inseam is a good call: the fabric is so dense they don't flop about and that loss of fabric can lighten the load ... [that would be around 2 inches shorter than what I am wearing in their rolled up state; but 1. I am a lanky f**k {at around 6'2"} and 2. I don't think 132's need turn ups...] - imo inseams between 28-30" are actually a pretty perfect spring length

good to see more pairs crossing the finish line

@Spiraltoy ; sorry to hear your tribulations; divorce with children is a particular circle of hell: to be taken one day at a time with an eye to the future! my thoughts are with you!

7 hours ago, srudy said:

Have y’all seen these on IG?

yup: my minimal sleuthing makes me think those are this gentleman (posted on the tcb ig...) - the man who washes our jawns...

a man who rivals @Double 0 Soul's welly-steez...

^ very nice @CSL ; what was the washing protocol? they look pretty raw still w.hyper blue white in fades, deep dusty blue down at hems? back pocket stitches still look fab, even with the advised change from rocking 88...

and very nice updates all round

and congrats to @Thanks_M8 - big times ahead...!!!

^ that f*****kin' belt!

[and nice shirt and jawns combo sirrah!]

3 monster profiles to start the page!

sidewind does at last proud...

patagonia and redwing looking like good partners... [thinking the black moc-toe is their best ftw]

& yesyes babies improve all denim...

such-a-suka-YES!

^

??!

must have been one hell of a kitchen?

[just spent the morning wrestling a new fridge freezer into the house; 6am delivery; not nice experience... not necessarily a nice thing either; but more freezer space = possibility to make more nice things to keep for longer...]

and then, before going into their last wash pre-deadline, some pix and a poor quatrain;

thanks to all for the nice competition...

I share gently stewed denim no part beginning to shred

patterns in part showing sartorial adhd deskwarrior life within a pandemic's quasi-perdition

here is a penultimate blue symphonic hurrah for the thread

[or, an alternative closing rhyme; now the sufu-competiton baton passes on to Warehouse, and to Ed...]

11 hours ago, volvo240thebest said:

Hello peeps,

I have actually been in touch with Hajime and Ryo about this, and suggested some basic final submission rules.

I am awaiting their reply on my proposal, which I hope to receive tomorrow.

I'll keep you posted.

nice! thank you!

8 hours ago, efujobu1 said:

Looking great!

again: thank you!

42 minutes ago, smoothsailor said:

You wear a black leather jacket really wel @bartlebyyphonics.

for me it’s the layering that you do makes it

thanks @smoothsailor; I can't tuck, but I do like a layer!

plus; yes; black leather seems to have me in its grip... frames double denim much better than I thought it would...