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Maybe this is overly cynical, but I don’t see it as a total coincidence that so many new, low-volume one-man brands are popping up right during the craze of wonky-stitched WW2 jeans. When it comes down to it, just as in the case of the original Levi’s, wonky jeans can be made more easily and more quickly by less skilled machinists. I appreciate the more optimistic take that in many cases it might be a conscious design decision or an artistic liberty, but in more than a few cases I’d bet that it’s just an excuse for someone who’s really not ready to be selling jeans to the public to do so under the guise of reproduction.

“TCB was actually planning to hold a fade contest for some other new model” Hmmm…

Very cool, thanks for passing that on. I’ll be there!

Good info—know which S&S they were gonna be going to, by chance? I’m even closer than I used to be from the Oakland one, these days, and I think I have some store credit to burn…

@Broark Were you in person @ Inspiration this year? or were they willing to take mail orders for those

Back home, backlit Tilley / Bubo / Hollows / Vanishing West / Frank’s

M41200 action shot feat. Tilley, Great Lakes, Frank’s, dog

Were they maybe available for a bit during the custom era, too? In any case, I saw a couple in person a while back at some or other event @ S&S: can confirm they’re as dope as you’d expect

What changed?

That’s pretty much all TCB jeans for the last 3–4 years Most of their staff just has very different body types from most SuFu folks Anyway, they’ll be a pass from me too; I need all of my pockets

Union Special / Tender Co. / Hollows / Cane’s / MOTO

I’ve used the blue rep in the past to acknowledge posts that I appreciate having read, but that carry a negative message (like news of a death or discussion of some other tragedy) which I’d feel weird reacting “positively” to—but every time I’ve done so I’ve felt that I’m probably overthinking it

On the topic of rocks matching clothes Tilley / Merz / Hollows / Roy / White’s

“Selection” is maybe the limiting criterion. Lots of brands seem to do one or two okay women’s cuts, these days, but no one seems to have more than a couple of options. Meanwhile, obviously all jeans are more or less gender agnostic in principle, but how well they work in practice depends completely on body type. Around how is your partner shaped? If they’re big in the hips and don’t fit well into standard men’s jeans, the TCB Norma could be a really good option; I’ve also seen curvier women friends make ‘90s Cane’s work well.

Found a really good rock to match the Foreman pants Been wearing these a lot lately

The little satchel / purse from a few years ago remains one of my all-time favorite items of any category (likely above most of my clothes and boots, even); it’s with me all the time Had to do a first round of repairs, recently. Some holes were forming around the bottom so I patched it up with some of the canvas leftover from hemming my older pair of Roy’s Foreman pants There was some really nice lighting today so I took a few photos. I love how many different colors are present in different areas of the bag from different sorts of wear (sun, abrasion, indigo crocking…)

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