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Was thinking about it some more this morning while photoing, & it seems like camera height / angle should have some place in the discussion The spot where I usually prop my phone for WAYWT photos is at around mid-thigh, & brief experiments showed that looking down at that strong of an angle at the camera just felt off. May try to find a higher prop—‘til then, it’s all speculation (in any case, still prob. just post hoc justification for weird psychological leanings, or whatever conclusion was come to above…)

Found some ~~loud~~ mocs on sale Tender / Sauce Zhan / Hollows / Cane’s / Yuks

Good to see that cluster of sea stars doing well—they’ve been struggling pretty seriously for the last couple of years down this end of the coast

Who makes bolo ties?

^ different folks carry weight in different places I’m in the same boat; I don’t think any of Resolute’s cuts would ever work for me due to limited thigh room For what it’s worth, the TCB ‘50s cut works just fine for my biggish thighs

Hah, now that you mention it that does ring a bell…looking forward to the photos!

Warehouse shirts are just a touch slim on me in 42; you’d def. want a 46 I think

@heyson That’s a shame, but luckily shouldn’t be too hard of a fix How are they aging, in general? Haven’t seen much of Whooper on here, nor anywhere else for that matter…

You’re almost half way there with the second option—pull the flap against the prongs so that they puncture it & hold it in place, then feed the flap through behind the hinge of the cinch so that it’s hidden behind the other side

I remember being under the impression, years ago, that Toyo Enterprise had some stake in Nihon Menpu, & that that was part of how the Toyo brands were able to keep costs so low Looking back, though, I can’t find direct reference to this anywhere, so it may have just been a very believable rumor that was getting spread around at the time Anyone know one way or the other? If this was the case, it would make sense for Nihon Menpu to be making all of the in-house SC fabrics

Never spent time in Idaho besides a pretty quick drive through the panhandle a few years ago; photos like this make me wanna go back & really give it some attention…

I love these jeans Warehouse / Tightly Stitched / Leroy’s / MOTO

^ That was the main thing that felt off about the TCB war jeans, to me at least…

Discography chock full of bangers

Still v. envious of that hat—nice to see one put to good use!

I'll take some close-ups of both of the above at some point, sure The M41058, in particular, looked very human-made—both in terms of (in)consistency in thread count and in terms of loose threads & yarns popping out of seams

Not sure what RMC's timeline was, but this sort of thing is def. present on some early- and mid-'90s Cane's The MP-619 and M41058 both give off strong CSF vibes in that regard

I keep saying I'm gonna stop wearing these, then I keep repairing them & putting them back into rotation: I can't keep them off my legs

Almost?? Every Goodwill in Hawaii has decent vintage rayon & silk shirts for sub-$20; skip the McCoy’s and buy a plane ticket

What’s the deal with Skoob? Any experience with their shoes? Looks like they do production for a few of the brands were used to seeing here Not a niche I need filled right now, but these seem lovely—spiritually similar to the McCoy’s service boots? https://lua-shop.ocnk.net/phone/product/6877

@KJS The waist is higher on the ‘40s, yes, but they’re also slimmer through the hips & thighs than the ‘50s and straighter through the lower legs. Overall, they’re more square through the top block—they don’t taper as much from the hips to the waist, & the seat seam isn’t as curved.

@Duke Mantee Good info, thanks—so the idea is that after some wear the outsole will flatten out to spec?

I’d gone back and forth in it for some time & couldn’t resist when one popped up on Yahoo in my size—there’s so much pocket room!!

Fine, fine—I’m used to my outsoles being nice and Euclidian, and the insistence of shoemakers to realize manifolds with positive Gaussian curvature is really throwing me for a loop!

No part of the sole is flat, but usually the curve is just front to back: If you wanted to make a sole out of paper, you could bend it a bit to have the toe spring up but still keep it straight along the other axis & get just what you see on most shoes (besides the paper probably wearing down pretty quickly…). What I'm talking about wouldn't be possible with paper. You could bend the [paper] sole front to back, but when you tried to bend it side to side to get the center to bulge out, the front-to-back bend would snap out of place since paper just isn't elastic like that. The center of the outsole bulges outwards, which is to say that no matter what direction you look at it from (even looking head on from the toe of the boot) the center of the sole will be lower down towards the ground than the edges, & the sole will strike the ground at (something like) a single point rather than (something like) a line going all the way across from inside to outside. It wouldn't do anything to relieve stress on the stitching—getting something like rubber to bulge like this means stretching it pretty actively, and, if anything, it would add extra stress. It may be necessary in order to make room for whatever's going on between the insole and the outsole, but since the apex of the bulge seems to happen so far forward, I doubt it would be anything like a shank. My best guess is that it's just extra cork / leather filling, and that it's put there intentionally—just can't figure why that might be beneficial.