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Selvedge-Induced Clip Art
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@jkbrwn Thanks! Great Lakes Gmt. Mfg. Co. is a Freewheelers label, also responsible for Bubo Sport Togs. Not much info floating around besides what’s here on this forum (largely courtesy of Duke), but generally speaking they’re a [fictitious] outdoors- / sports- / hunting-wear company based in the Midwestern US and operational from around the 1910s through around the 1970s. (The Great Lakes shirt that I’m wearing above is the same that Broark has on in the post below mine)
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@bartlebyyphonics Yep, snagged from eBay with some very light wear (uppers creaseless and insoles printless) and this’ll be my first full day in them! I’d love a pair of Knockabouts some day; these are some or other version of the Zephyr, with a double bottom and a stiff heel counter. I guess the leather is chamois or nubuck, fantastically soft on the outside but too early to say much else about it
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New [old] boot day + 38 °F out in sunny California Tilley / Great Lakes / Ballpark / Duke / Cane’s / Russell
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Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.
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Better that than putting on $1000 of Rick Owens wares to shitpost about jeans…you’d still be 3/4 naked -
This years Jacks o’ lantern found themselves well in the category of Things That Look Better With Age
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Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.
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^^ Can’t speak for the other end of things, but giving their seal of approval to these weird looking fashion sneakers (& associated weird looking overpriced fashion clothes) was the last nail in the coffin for my ability to take Self Edge seriously -
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2x Type 492 Bench Shirts today, matching pressed buttons = cross-buttoning madness also feat. Achille’s Heel Type 132
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Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.
julian-wolf replied to cmboland's topic in superdenim
Yep, I had an SE for a long time and just switched to a 12 Mini a couple years ago. It’s too big, but less too big than any of the other viable options (emphasis on viable), and all things considered iPhones do seem to hold up great -
Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.
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^ Why not just ask whoever’s selling you your pants to measure the pockets for you ?? -
The gusset almost looks after-market??
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Sewing machines are pretty complicated, and small changes can have strong effects on how stitching turns out. The tensioning (and, correspondingly, the thread gauge) plays a big role. The whole reason we see the particular style of roping that we’re used to is an imbalance in how the top and bottom feeds pull the fabric—and the operator has quite a bit of control over how strong of an effect this is. Paying enough attention, it’s not too difficult to get a fairly even stitch out of a 43200G, or to get good roping with the straight stitch on a modern home machine. The folder also plays a big role; standard folders came in at least a few sizes, and I’m sure bigger factories had plenty more machined in-house, some of which resulted in very different hems than others.
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Great Lakes / Tender Co. / Rocky Mountain Featherbed / Tezomeya / Duke’s / The Vanishing West / Frank’s
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