bartlebyyphonics

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nice update redragon!

thanks for sharing!

great to see some interest in historical and early street photography!

verging off denim, but staying with your themes: pardon if you already know these, but thinking to share hoping they are of interest - Clive Scott's 'Street Photography' is a good theoretically inflected account of emergence of street photography, with a focus on Paris (with a nice use of a Lartigue image in the intro), whilst Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbrook's 'Bystander' is a good (more picture based) account with a more international scope

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HvbOvNEDuTcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/bystander-a-history-of-street-photography/

your own shots are pretty good too! your raised perspective cityscapes remind of donovan wylie's recent-ish work in the us:

https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/donovan-wylie-postcards-america-iii/

and your covered chairs shot have a lovely resonance with an old Andre Kertesz

looking forward to seeing how the jeans develop on their next leg!

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noice!

looking excellent; some real character to them! 

they dont look bad at all for lack of hemming

great jeans!

great repairs going on in here

I wish I had that needle skill!

having posted about this fella's IG account [naritabby / brown tabby works - collaborates with bandana almanac on some things] in waywt re: smocks, I just wanted to share one of my favourite repairs by him... it is like a sculpture in itself!

and then a little ol' bandana almanac sashiko for extra stitch loveage

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cool

adjustment made: measurements replaced by god-tier hat/smock IG poster

a personal note: I only ever wear those clark shoes sock-less and with blue or white canvas or blue or white chino / light-twill (generally with some vintage aquascutum trousers I found on a £1 rail) as summer ankle show-off-ers, not a denim buddy in my outfit rules... [but nice alternative to the boating shoe or loafer for sock-less footwear]

would love to see how you all wear / wore them

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[bro-fist]

I see them a lot on school kids around here too, nearest to trainers a leather shoe can get...

& Bob Marley precedence is good news to me!

my semi moc-toe lo-fi alternative to yuketen! [when the lottery comes my way...]

20 hours ago, mandel9000 said:

Great smock, @bartlebyyphonics! How would you say that the sizes are?  It says that small covers chests 34" to 38" and being closer to 38" I wonder if medium is the way to go? 

thanks!

[edit: smock sizing matters and smock pix measurements posted, now removed, replaced instead by outfit picture of smock king and purveyor of Brown Tabby Works, IG user naritabby - oh to wear hats like that - and the OG smock mainstreamer Barbara Hepworth]

[apologies for filling thread here...]

[and slightly cross post from tender thread]

from opposites to repetition

newlyn fisherman smock

tender 134 trews

[edit: & clark shoes worn below for full combo]

On 11 June 2017 at 6:45 PM, Niro said:

Lately i've developed a liking for soft 'vintagey' feel denim and also wearing straighter cuts with trainers in warmer weather. Thus I have been thinking about getting the 1951s for a few months now to wear in the summer, but decided against due to price and not being completely sure on the fit.

Anyway saw this hardly worn pair on the IH forum for £100, so couldn't resist. The waist measurement was about 1-2cm off in my opinion, but it's nothing a belt wouldn't solve so it's fine. Need to re-hem them also.

 

am really liking that fit and associated 'stove piping'!

a really nice silhouette - I think the mild oversize adds to the charm

did them get hemmed?

any fit pics of them now they are breaking in...?

21 hours ago, slowdownarthur said:

So many beautifully timeworn pieces on this page. Particularly like the barge blue canvas bartlebyyphonics and your pair of much washed Backwoods William.

Here are my Whooper Backwoods, really great jeans and my go-to pair this summer.

 

thanks dear sir!

nice fit and jeans you have there!

to extend the barge blue business I share an oft-worn combo of oft-worn newlyn fisherman smock w. 134 trews for steely baby blue stiff cotton tuta

i really appreciate the way in which tender items do not fuss with details but frame fades through attention to fabric and fabrication

as said elsewhere in the thread, I think these trews will outwear me...

10 minutes ago, Inimitable N! said:

this is going to sound silly, but in a perfect world we'd all get together for a group picture after wearing our 20's for a year.

of course if someone is a "photoshop ninja", we could fake it, but it certainly wouldn't be nearly as fun

12 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

I think he meant 89 people, due to a sudden surge in interest.

now that would be some meet up

your place or mine

or intertubez wizardry?

let's do this!

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agreeing w b_F

moar

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merrier

in the spirit of collected tender fabrics

my 130, 134, 132

denim, barge blue canvas, ecru canvas

as wave of textures

in the spirit of washing right side out

and the fabulous fades seen above

details of my barge blue 134 trews which receive that treatment

around 2 years occasional wear

a quiet quiver of fades, formed in certain parts as much through fabric tension as wearer contours

in loafer solidarity!

opposites colliding

adorning utility

formal leisure

surplus luxury

shiny matt

width narrowness

inside outside

lvc

swiss army

loake

[& a wee afterthought: the bandana as pocket-kerchief workwear-dandyism...]

21 minutes ago, oomslokop said:

amazing meng. i love the front pocket fade. hv u been washing inside or right side out?

my thoughts exactly! pls share!

(i suspect rodeo bill washes right side out also with some of the fades i have seen on this thread)

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noice!

sda workshirts 

hellah f************k yeh

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hella complètement veritas

aka

my sides

in orbit

nice one

[kissing my guns as I type]

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indeed, indeed

I wonder who here claims to premeditated hipsterism?

[edit: I qualify this remembering my stung pride when my eldest - I am as old as Lao Tzu - threw shade by bestowing upon me the nomination of 'original hipster']

and then my two favourite quotes from the Agamben hopefully of relevance to the forum...

to be 'in' fashion is to be out-of-sync... to be contemporary is to put different times in relation with each other... 

how to think retro/repro as other than historic recreation, or to think what does re-enactment do to the present?

anyway, back to work...

&&&

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nice.

On an academic note, and please forgive my ramblings, the search to get beyond 'postmodernism' has been ongoing since late 90s...

the current term much wrestled with in certain areas is the 'contemporary'...

a broad brush account [worthy of debunking, but trying to keep short]: if modernism was the belief in grand narratives and movement towards enlightenment, postmodernism - at least one strand - was the critical doubt of 'progress' and thinking of paying attention to alternate 'minor' histories weaved inside the grand account of history, to think of the contemporary is to think of how we are both stranded in the 'perpetual present' of the now-now-now yet trying to put the present in touch with moments of the past to shift the axis of what is possible in the present... 

what Walter Benjamin calls fashion's 'tigers leap' into the past, what Giorgio Agamben addresses in the essay 'What is the contemporary?' (his answer: to be contemporary is to be of one's time, but at an adjunct and in contact with the archaic, but not to wallow in the past as the 'good old days'): you find that essay in this pdf here

equally, the Sex Pistol's refrain of 'No Future' has been picked up by Italian Autonomist of 1970s and US student protests preceding Occupy: here

and then: Guy Debord's thoughts on time published in 1968 are always worth looking at (where historical time is replaced by the abstract units of the global market)... found here 

and then I could ramble about Manuel Castells and his theory of 'timeless time' that digital networks produce in terms of the interruption of sequencing via instantaneity, but then you would have to shoot me. 

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we don't already?

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congrats on concerts and good luck with new crowdfunding venture!

rest well when you can! you owe some moar penny loafer action pix

oh my

it is the technique that matters after all (with flutes)

well I hope dear volvo has been getting a big hand of applause throughout the festival

that going well?

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cleanliness is next to godliness as they say, chicote!

"modernism emerges from the belief that man is fundamentally a clean body"

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not quite ready to share photos of hands sliding into indigo apertures.

I have no complaints on the matter but offer no measurable analysis of my hands.

6 hours ago, Selfedged said:

Thanks all for the replies! I should've made it clearer, but when I meant big pockets I was mostly talking about the pocket openings

 

My Samurais and Japan Blues have deep enough pockets. But the problem is that I can barely fit my hands in them, and I don't even have big hands! I'd like to use the front pockets more if I could, but I'm just not able to easily. So was just curious if TCB had wide front pocket openings since I've been eying the 50s for a while