julian-wolf

If anyone’s in the market for an early pair of Sakura’s ‘46 size 34, mine are still up for grabs…too slim for me, sadly I know it’s not the right thread, but I think this conversation is the most times I’ve ever seen them mentioned on here

^ Nothing topping it at all? I think some pepperoni would make for a nice flair

Agreed with a couple others that Rebuilt / LB would be a top top choice, but the logistics seem pretty unlikely to work out for that… @AlientoyWorkmachine Early to mid ‘50s would be my strongest preference, too, but I’m not super picky (as long as it’s a mid ‘40s to late ‘50s 501, that is)

I’d do a Rockets ‘46 contest

@Duke Mantee Could we see a shot of that one uncoiled? Looks like a lovely little scene

Any “contest” that doesn’t have every contestant wearing the same pair of jeans is broken from the start, and is bound to get min/maxed to oblivion, with how Instagram culture is amplifying everything these days I probably sound like a broken record at this point, but I knew the Indigo Invitational was going to be a dud from the moment it became clear it wasn’t in any sense an invitational…and didn’t in fact focus exclusively on indigo jeans

I think the 1942 are solidly pre-war; they’re essentially a 1937 type. I don’t know anything about the specific timeline of rations setting in, but the US didn’t join in until late 1941, so I guess it wouldn’t be surprising if factories were still following old recipes through at least the first chunk of ‘42

Ultra rare hatless fit Union Special + loquat, Roy, Birks

^ No, I would bet the creasing in the body is from lots of time sitting on a motorcycle

I’ll throw my doubt in the ring. This sort of approach doesn’t seem much less phony, in the end, than just skipping the middle man and pulling out the sandpaper. (If the end result at least looked cool, that’d be something I guess, but on top of the absurdity of it all this sort of thing is just straight up ugly.)

@OutSider I think the recent Super Denim Collectibles models have it in the right pocket, in stead—and a number of older models, particularly Lee and Wrangler repros, had them in their back pockets

McCoy’s would be my go-to, if the short boxy cut works

For anyone a couple of sizes smaller than me who's in the market—these are some of my absolute all time favorite jeans, and for a great price https://jp.mercari.com/en/item/m17271039283

Civilian Crew / Tender Co. / Hollows / Cane's / Frank’s

M41200, old tee, Town View mocs

Once you get towards the lower legs, it doesn’t make a difference how the fabric is distributed between the panels as long as the outseam is cut straight, but up top it can be an okay proxy for the overall shape of the crotch

^ The way the pattern is cut makes all the difference. This is why some brands’ jeans (like Sugar Cane or Warehouse) seem to fit almost everyone pretty well and some brands’ jeans (like ONI or N&F) manage to fit almost no one: patterning and grading are really not straightforward. It’s not possible to tell how jeans (a 3D object) will fit—or how two pairs of jeans will compare to each other—based on a few 1D measurements any more than it’s possible to look at a few measurements and use that to produce a functioning pattern for a pair of jeans. That said, if you’re just looking at how the legs fit, you’re at a pretty big advantage here since both pairs are cut with straight outseams to accommodate the edges of the denim. If they hit your crotch at the same point (which, admittedly, is a pretty big if), you should be able to tell everything about how they’ll fit your legs by separately measuring the widths of the front and back panels at a few places. My bet would be that one pair has an inseam that sits appreciably farther forward than the other’s, towards the crotch—and that they’re probably cut with fairly different curves through the crotch and seat.

@AlientoyWorkmachine What size are your ‘51 601xx again?

Meanwhile @ the current digs Great Lakes / Tezo / Hollows / The Vanishing West / Russell

@chicote Those are great jeans; I love mine. On one hand, yours do look like they’ve lightened up an okay amount around some of the seams (and this denim is pretty stubborn), but on the other hand the size tag still looks totally intact, which is usually a pretty foolproof tell of any real use. I’d bet they’ve seen a couple of machine washes but very little actual wear?

Thanks, @Dr_Heech + @Alec Leamas! Yeah, we’re really pleased with it, and can’t wait to move in (packing’s already in full swing). We’ve been searching on and off for the better part of a year, now. Facing the likely reality that we’ll be lifelong renters (if we want to continue living around here) has made it feel really important to find somewhere that we could see ourselves staying long-term—and this place really does tick all of the boxes, I think. In the end, it’s a little above our current budget, but the strong rent control laws here mean that finding a good place sooner rather than later could mean paying a lot less over the next 10+ years, even if it means we get to save a little less now…or so we’re telling ourselves. Anyway, yeah, maybe once we get settled I’ll post a bit of a tour. It’s a really lovely, well cared for ‘20s-ish little bungalow.

Same clothes new living situation (once we move all our stuff) Civilian Crew / Tender x2 / Tezo / Hollows / Cane’s / Birks

@AlientoyWorkmachine We’ve done some of both. The loquat leaves were foraged; in the past I’ve foraged plenty of eucalyptus, oak galls, mosses. Most of the flowers we’ve used have been from local farms, plus some from our or my mom’s garden. Every year I clean and save all of my avocado pits and skins, which are a lot of fun, and I’ve had friends give me shavings from projects using Brazil wood. The re-using waste / leftovers approach is a definite favorite. I’ve also bought & used dried cochineal, turmeric, safflower, hibiscus, who knows what else…not to mention buying fully ready made kakishibu goo. Collecting and prepping dye stuffs can be a really fun part of the process, but at the end of the day I’m so far removed from the production of the fabrics themselves, not to mention all the chemical mordants and additives, that it hardly feels like cheating to just buy something that’s a cool color and dump it in a pot. Store-bought cochineal and kakishibu, in particular, have been some of my absolute favorite projects.

^ Those are actually really appealing, and the measurements look a lot more reasonable than most of their jeans I remember some folks here posting about the WW2 cut a bit after it came out. Who has them? What other companies’ jeans do the fit compare to?

SF10484 (above) were getting pretty thoroughly washed out, dipped them in a bath of coreopsis + iron for a new life Also shown: Union Special short sleeved linen Western dyed with loquat leaves