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  1. julian-wolf
    Sunday happenings + observances: Scritch time Next round of starts, with & without Squirrel Guard Little herb garden: no need for a squirrel guard here: the gnome’s got it covered Morning coffee appreciating the sunflowers
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    All this beach talk clearly not coming from Northern California / Pacific Northwest folks…growing up around here, beach-wear always meant jeans and a wool sweater, even way before I cared about what jeans I was wearing Just in the past 10ish years it’s started getting a lot more common for us to see sunshine & temps in the 70s, but it always used to be you had to go a few miles inland to get away from the fog & the winds
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    Tender Co. / Warehouse / Duke / Cane’s / The Flat Head
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    ^ I still regret not going in on the later run of those that they did in the 01 cut for S&S
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    There seems to have been a big drop in interest a couple years ago when it seemed like they were closing up shop / when they cut back their catalog to focus more on the basics …but I’d go a step farther & suggest that the ultrasuede was the real beginning of the end
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    First real day in the M41059 I always assumed these were the same denim as the M41058, but I don’t think that’s the case. They look very similar, and feel similar when raw, but after a wash these feel a lot more crunchy & rougher than I remember the M41058 feeling; I think they may have also shrunk more, although I didn’t take any measurements this time around to confirm. My best guess is that they use the same (or a very similar) initial denim but that the version for the M41058 is sanforized, while the denim for the M41059 is either fully unsanforized or only lightly sanforized. Can any Wrangler history buffs comment on whether this shift would check out from a historical perspective? In any case, really looking forward to seeing how these age in comparison. feat. Great Lakes, Tender Co., Ooe, Union Special, Hollows, Russell
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    Jumped the gun Great Lakes / Tender Co. / Union Special / Duke / Word of Mouth / Frank’s
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    In other news, a long overdue garden update: I think the first of my sunflowers are going to open today!! For reference, the wall is just a bit under 6’ high
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    More of the same (I promise I’ve still been wearing the contest jeans more often than not) Union Special / Tezomeya / Tender Co. x2 / Hollows / Russell
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    I stopped consistently working farmers’ markets around a year and a half ago, but I still like showing up on Tuesday evenings to get my (and the contest jeans’) weekly workout packing up my friends’ produce truck for them
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    ^ Hell yes! Top top notch I was wearing mine last night too—although I’m thinking about graduating these from climbing pants into the regular rotation, and switching to climbing in the M41059 Bad pic feat. Bootleggers chalk bag, Django Atour tee
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    …Did Levi’s ever produce any fabric themselves for anything?
  13. julian-wolf
    Most machines, incl. loopwheelers, can do a wide variety of patterns, and there’s a lot of overlap between the patterns folks knit on loopwheelers and on modern knitting machines It’s akin to the comparison between weaving denim on an old shuttle loom vs. on a modern projectile loom—the feed mechanisms differ significantly, but the fundamentals of how the fabric comes together are the same
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    I’ve been feeling similar, but for me I think it’s less to do with the seasons and more to do with the jeans I’m wearing. Tender tops are really polarizing for me, in that they can either feel really fantastic or just sort of weird and out of place depending on how I style them, without a lot of middle ground. They feel best with wider jeans (and, frankly, bestest with Tender jeans), so wearing the slimmer Word of Mouth contest jeans most days has just meant that my Tender tops don’t see much use, which is a bummer. That said, becoming more cognizant of this sort of pattern was a big part of why I was interested in committing to the contest in the first place, so I can hardly complain: it’s already been a good learning experience. ~ to keep things on topic ~ Great Lakes bag + hat, Tender shades, The Vanishing West jacket, Union Special shirt, Hollows belt, contest jeans, Russell mocs
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    At their current prices, even 30% off is a little rich for me…I'll stick to Yahoo I think Some of their Buzz Rickson's stuff is pretty appealing, though
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    I think after the Word of Mouth contest is over I’m just gonna wear Tender Co. for a year or two Tender x4 / Tezomeya / Hollows / Russell
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    Tender / Great Lakes / The Vanishing West / Stanford Research Systems / Duke / Word of Mouth / Wearmasters
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    You made that joke a lot harder than it needed to be, considering that the clothes company is essentially named after a bicycle part…
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    ^ One of the big keys to enjoying riding is going somewhere without red lights
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    Tender Co. x5, Duke, Russell
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    @JohnM Thanks. I did see a San Francisco garter snake, which is always a joy. Lots of standard garter snakes around there, but the extra striping’s exciting to spot. Not during the pictured hike, but at the lake where we were staying, there was good avian variety: a bald eagle seemingly looking for a place to nest; two pairs of ospreys diving for fish almost nonstop; a family of ducks, the ducklings still in half down (below, swimming). Not much in the way of mammals around that area besides rodents and black bears.
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    @Double 0 Soul Chalk bag—just the style I prefer, too
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    Yeah, you’re right that the denim itself seems to fall on the less robust end of the spectrum: my other point of reference is the fabric hiding the back pocket rivets, which usually takes a whole lot longer than this to start wearing through, for me
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    Wash no. 4 or 5 I think, almost at the six-month mark Staring to see a little more in the way of whiskers, plus some nice oxidation on the rivets. The roping’s a little too intense for its own good; the hems are already wearing through at a few points!
  25. julian-wolf
    Maybe not the best cars on the market, but offset hood bumps on the first- and second-gen Eclipses are absolutely timeless to me
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