julian-wolf

Agreed with everything that’s already been said, but also (& maybe most importantly?) their patterning is absolutely terrible. I spent enough time on r/rawdenim to see more than my fair share of ONI fit pics, and they look bad on every body type, pretty much across the board—like in the same league as N&F. Almost no one manages to make them look like a good / natural fit.

Tilley / Ooe / Tender / Tezo / Hollows / Cane’s / Russell & Carhartt / Baggu / Tender / Stevenson / Cane’s / Blundstone

They don’t need to be “sufficiently informed to know the kind of details that make such a product appeal,” they just need to be sufficiently well-off and sufficiently disinterested in clothes to see something with a big price tag and assume that since it’s expensive it must be nice

^ Too close of a belt–shoes match ends up looking contrived fast; you’re better off with just a brown + black, or at most a couple shades of each

MOTO #2121 light brown Latigo in the wild also feat. Roy Foremans, SC rainbow Okinawa, prob. Dansko clogs, prob. Tender Co. socks

So far, all of their black denim releases have been one-offs, with no indication (that I’m aware of) of that changing

Shout out to the whole one man brand thing and all that, but those are really ugly, like I-wouldn’t-wear-them-if-they-were-free ugly

I’ve heard plenty of success stories of folks w/ low arches trying the 55 last (or similar) and finding it more comfortable than they ever expected—but if wearing orthotics that don’t conform to your natural foot shape feels unnatural to you, it’s not clear why wearing boots built to be shaped like orthotics should be any different

Hasn’t TCB made it clear that they already have a model in mind for this? Doesn’t seem like it’s up to us to decide one way or another

There’s a big distinction to draw (which I rarely see drawn, for whatever reason) between the sort of large-scale veining / creasing that happens when rigid denim is put through a harsh wash—think rinsed or dyed Tender Co.—and the sort of small-scale marbling that happens over time when tightly woven denim is put through the washer and dryer repeatedly. I think the latter sort of “marbling” is appealing to a lot of folks here, myself included, whereas the former sort of “marbling” is often seen as more unsightly. Personally, I wash my jeans inside out with low (or no) spin for usually the first half dozen or so washes, until they’re starting to soften up and lighten up appreciably, in order to avoid any big veins. If they’re particularly rigid, I go as far as to get them wet before the first wash. Once they’ve started softening up, anything goes: I think slightly harsher washes help with the good sort of marbling and don’t have any real downsides.

You’ll lose another half inch over the first few washes (maybe more if you put it through the dryer, but I can’t say for sure from experience). Yeah, though, their factory wash is one of the more thorough ones.

I’m surprised to see those compared to the 1001xx at all. On paper, and by every other description I’ve seen, they’re way slimmer cross the board

@yung_flynn The rubber buttons were carried over from true rugby shirts, not a climbers’ addition—they were so the buttons could bend to slide out rather than popping straight off if the collar got pulled too hard in a tackle or a ruck That’s a really cool shirt; I’ve got a soft spot for exactly that style. McCoy’s did a lovely repro a couple of years ago, but none of the sizes worked well for me at the time. Still really hoping that they return to it some day with a different pattern.

^ Sassafras for all that sort of things

@JohnM They run the same as PNW boots, size-wise. No arch support whatsoever; they’re built right into a flat footbed—but they do mold extremely well to the foot over time, way more so than any non-moccasin I’ve tried.