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Some light wear starting to show on the S601xx

Same park different day Ladybugs going strong, mushrooms too

Good lighting for a few photos on Sunday’s afternoon walk in the local park

Kitchen lounging action shot (stolen from partner’s social media) Tender Co. jacket tee cords socks / Town View mocs Happy holidays, all

The length is fine, but overall the boxy-ish sweatshirt plus ultra-super-tapered jeans look does end up looking pretty top heavy

I guess heeler (blue, in her case) is maybe a more common name, in some places

@exaptavist Thanks, she’s a sweetheart. Dad mostly Australian cattle dog, mom mostly German Shepherd (but I guess she inherited a lot more from the former).

Union Special cap / Great Lakes shirt / Power Wear hoodie / old Lee Cane’s / Attractions kicks

^ On what basis would you guess that this would be similar? They’re very different models, and made 30 years apart…

^ They changed the style of switches and key mounts some time after the 2012 model. You can very much service the keyboards of the 2012 model at home (it’s the same model I have—the last of the great MacBooks, in a lot of ways—and I’ve needed to replace keys a few times). That said, I have no idea what might be going on with the ET scenario.

Shouldn’t the tag just read “Ee”?

Yesterday = Tender Co. x3

@shredwin_206 Funny timing, I just posted photos of a slightly less worn pair of those a page or two ago that I’d seen on Yahoo

I guess DIY rivets are the new runoff threads

Really glad you went for those. Feels like that model’s been on your list forever! As I said earlier, fit looks great though & through

Union Special cap / Tender Co. shades / Power Wear hoodie / Cane’s M41058 / Russell Mocs

There’s lots of different 100% cotton jeans that shrink different amounts, so I’m not sure what sort of comparison you’re looking for. In my memory the Hawaii shrunk a pretty average amount in the wash, maybe a little more than average in the dryer

I haven’t taken photos of pants, because I’m currently wearing 1/2 of them. I also haven’t taken photos of tees (2x), a whole big slew of socks, nor a variety of smaller things (shades, watch, mugs, gloves, kerchief, ???). With those exceptions out of the way, finally: jackets & coats. Shown first are the Type 961 Baste Pocket Jacket, in red ochre cotton velvet; the Type WS922 Welsh Flannel Curve Front Jacket (Thanks Austin!); the Type 425 Double Cuff Flat Jacket, in some sort of very soft (felted?) wool. Last but not least are the Tenth Anniversary Edition Type 900 and the standard Type 902.

Next, shirts. Before I tried anything else from Tender Co., I was a big fan of their wool & mohair socks. I thought that the rest of the clothes were a little too out there for me (go figure). At some point in maybe 2017 or 2018, I was in Standard & Strange and they asked if I wanted to try out one of the shirts. It wasn’t for sale—I think they’d stopped even stocking Tender Co., by that point, besides maybe belts and socks—but I guess another regular had dropped it off as a pay-it-forward sort of deal, just in hopes that it would find a happy home. It was some or other version of (I think) the Type 423 Wallaby shirt, and at that point in grad school I wasn’t going to say no to a free fancy shirt. I started trying to work it into my style, and before too long a switch flipped and I “got it”. I’m still really thankful to whomever dropped the shirt at S&S, and to the staff who was working that day and saw fit to pass it on to me (sadly, I’ve long forgotten who that would’ve been). Through them, a long-term appreciation & obsession were born. The shirt in question was eventually joined by 2x Type 492 Bench Shirts, in indigo chambray tote cloth + in henna handkerchief check; the Type 452 Bridge Pocket Square Tail Shirt, in Hadal green Herdwick stripe casement; the Type 445 Short Sleeved Boomerang Shirt, in Prussian blue carding cloth. (Not shown is a Type 420 Long Sleeve Tail Shirt, in walnut cotton tote, which I almost like quite a bit, but rarely end up wearing in practice, I think because of the bright red buttons. I’ve also sadly had to pass a couple others on due to inconsistent sizing.)

Photo dumps incoming! First, sweaters. Shown are the Type 799 Mirror pPanel Double Pullover, in blackberry stitch lambswool; the Type 781 Tube Neck Pullover, in cold felted lambswool; the Type 751 Wide Rib Barnacle Neck Pullover, in Shetland wool blind fair isle knit wool. The Mirror Panel Pullover, in particular, is a long time favorite. (Not shown are both the cardigan and the turtleneck version of the Pop Punch Rap Promoter sweater, the latter of which was a gift from my partner.)

Yes! Reading that now, I do remember the blurb about the cold felted lambs’ wool from when these came out. Thanks so much for digging that up! Anyway, here are some action shots for the archive:

MiUSA 1946 after not much wear and some minor edits (testing out designs for the upcoming Word of Mouth contest)

A question for the Tender Co. historians: Was there ever a Type 781 Tube Neck Pullover? I have something that I’d thought was this, but after wearing it yesterday for the first time in a while I tried looking it up to get some more info and wasn’t able to find any reference to it ever existing…

^ My post just earlier on this page includes a slew of repeats It seems pretty common for folks to post repeats in their collections

If the standard (non-contest) patch is an option, that will always be my preference…