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Expensive, but honestly less so than most other Western retailers. Jeans around $300 jackets around $400. Similar to Freewheelers.

I don’t know any of the actual measurements, but TCB and Sugar Cane both tend to make longer jackets

Nope, no flasher for that pair. Good pick up, congrats!

Partner’s getting back in to running, which means I need to train the pup to run alongside…so it’s out with shorts and sneakers old employer / old gym / Great Lakes (by way of Duke) / Coorymoor / Mill Reef

^ What do you suppose caused the lines along the backs of your calves? They’re so consistent

Good topic. I don’t have exact dates for either of my pairs of MP-series Cane’s, but they’d be somewhere in the mid-‘80s to ‘92 range, and both seem like pretty thorough repros. Always on the hunt for more—my dream pair would be an appropriately sized MP-597 or MP-603.

@jkbrwn Can’t speak to lens quality; I had mine replaced with prescription lenses almost immediately. The frames themselves, for what it’s worth, are still in perfect shape after however many years of use

Like @Alec Leamas, I’ve never thought twice about the combo. Glasses let me see, and hats keep rain off the lenses (or sun off my head). I tried contact lenses, at one point, but couldn’t get used to them.

Great Lakes / The Vanishing West / Word of Mouth / Russell

506xx 1947, Open + Closed feat. Great Lakes, Skyway Man, Hollows, Word of Mouth, Russell

Would that be any less the case if they cost $500?

@shredwin_206 Thanks, the size 46 feels like it was made for me

Caught in the act of catching Old Dog in the act of shenanigans The Vanishing West / Sure Mfg. x TCB / Hollows / Word of Mouth / Russell

Russell Vellies back in rotation with a new set of laces

@CSL Looks great on you Is that the one that was on sale at S&S? I was tempted to pick up the same

^ I say we keep the banter spread across as many threads as possible: Make the future AI summarizer bots work to earn their keep!

That’s the main reason I never wear any natural indigo jeans anymore—half of my job these days is using Artificial Intelligence to build Atomic Interferometers, and I just don’t think I could stand another layer of disambiguation

Far too big a chunk of the internet already comprises pages primarily populated by and (increasingly) consumed by AI. This adds nothing in the way of original content, and makes it significantly more difficult to filter out trustworthy info when searching. The last thing we need is for real human contributors to begin actively helping add to the noise. I’m certainly not fundamentally against this style of AI assistant tool. If someone wanted a quick summary of the first 130 pages of this thread without all the banter, the prompts you entered would be a great way to achieve it. The (rather big) problem arises when the output of the AI models gets posted straight back to the same pages that the models are using for training in the first place. Now, in five years, when someone wants to ask their AI assistant to summarize the first 230 pages of this thread, the model isn’t likely to appropriately distinguish between original human-generated content and amalgamated machine-generated content when building its impression. The feedback loop that this generates doesn’t have any happy endings. Use AI all you want to help with your personal or professional life, but keep whatever it outputs away from any information aggregates like forums or social media. (I know it’s all in good humor and no real harm’s being done, and I hope the neg rep isn’t taken personally—that’s what the rep buttons are for, right?)

Do the last 140 pages of the thread really leave that many gaps??

@shredwin_206 Picked up the ‘47 506xx! I’d been meaning for a while to check out Brogue, which is around 40 minutes from me over in San Carlos. They’re closed on Sundays, which is my main running around day, so it didn’t seem like it was gonna happen organically. Finally made the time yesterday to drive over there and spend a while browsing, and it was a great setup. Decent selection of Freewheelers and also Timeworn Clothing, neither of which are ever available at any of the other shops around here. Overall a pretty cool vibe; it reminded me a lot of Standard & Strange 10ish years ago before they started focusing so heavily on artsier / more fashion forward brands. Seemed really well curated—certainly not everything there was for me personally, but everything that I saw did at least seem interesting and well thought-out, and the whole selection seemed cohesive and intentional, which is more at this point than I can say of Self Edge or Standard & Strange, as much as they both have going for them. I was mostly interested in trying out some At Last & Co., but nothing that they had in my size really spoke to me. Tried on the TVW 506xx just out of curiosity though, and I’m glad I did. I always figured if I bought a new TVW jacket I’d get it from Seiichiro, and I also always figured I’d take a size 44. Turns out the 44 was way too small (!), so it’s a really good thing I got to try one out in person. Ended up going with a 46 and it fits perfect. Pictures to come.

Busy morning hammering down rivets…

+ Two days later Meanwhile, the season’s wildflowers are starting to really take off up in the hills, with trillium making the first strong appearance as always feat. Union Special, Sun Surf / Oahu Garment Co. / Tezomeya / Duke / MOTO

For a fair contest, we should really all be tracking our wear on a quarter-hour basis

Made a cute little shop apron

^ I like my Word of Mouth jeans a lot, but they’re not made to nearly the same standard of construction as anything I have from Ooe. That’s completely fine with me, in the end—I didn’t buy them to be built with every stitch perfect—but it makes them feel like a much closer to comparison to someone like Rockets or Bridge of Time (not that I’ve tried either of these personally, to be fair) than to Ooe. The only other jeans I’ve worn that felt like they really parallel Ooe in that regard are Roy’s, so maybe it’s too high of a standard to be comparing on anyway