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Yard work styleless mashup Great Lakes + One Ear Brand + Tender Co. + Tezomeya + Hollows + Cane’s + Hoggs of Fife

Is that true? I remember the lot 470 denim being very quick to give up dye, lots of examples floating around with pretty drastic fades

The Self Edge 1947s use the lot 470 fabric, which definitely is not “non-fade”—plenty examples of faded pairs floating around

While we're on the topic…my first car, the day after I bought it (for $750…) Only ever driven one or two things since then that were as fun, and never owned anything that was anywhere to as easy to work on RIP

I obviously would never suggest it on any public road with other cars, it intersections, or just about any interesting features…but America’s really, really big, and most of Utah and Wyoming and Nevada are completely empty

This just isn’t a relevant take. I would love it if it were—getting to share the road with bikes and pedestrians would be great by me, if for no other reason than that it would mean I could be a cyclist or a pedestrian myself. The reality for a big chunk of folks in America, though, is that like 80+% of driving is on 8- and 10-lane motorways with nothing but cars and trucks in every direction. The whole holier-than-thou vote-with-your-bucks argument is great when you’re talking about not wanting to support a new chain in town that’s putting out local businesses, or whatever, but, as has already been mentioned, car companies here are going to push for bigger and bigger no matter what consumers want, because that’s where the money is.

To be clear, no, the max speed isn’t the same for every car. There are straight, flat, empty stretches of road hundreds of miles long in the high desert where it’s pretty nice to be able to do 120–130 mph and still feel in good control It’s obviously not a common use case—especially taken to that extent—but some cars being (much) faster than others is very much a real consideration

Agreeing with all points from @AlientoyWorkmachine. I’ve been extremely lucky to live for most of my life in walkable / bikeable parts of my city, but now with more people + more dogs in the family it felt necessary to have a little more space, and that meant (as it does for so many) either spending $4k+ a month on rent or moving farther out into a more residential (& less accessible) part of town. The house we’ve landed in is beautiful and very homey feeling, and I do like a lot of things about the neighborhood overall, but the reality of it is that going anywhere or doing anything requires getting in the car. That really, really sucks, but there’s no clear way to get around it without moving to a very different part of the country—or a different country all together. This is where family is, and this is where work is, so here we are…looking at SUVs just to commute and run the dogs and go get groceries.

That would really be the dream—it’s a little hard to understand why anyone would buy anything other than a station wagon as their primary vehicle, given the choice That said…for my current use case, what I’d like to see is more options for sporty little 2-seater EVs. I’m in the market for something that I’d be fine using mostly for commuting. We’ll be keeping the old Subaru around for road trips and all that, so it’s not like we need much space in the commuter anyway. As soon as you get to the smaller options, though, they’re almost all severely underpowered—and, as has been said, that starts to feel like a pretty real safety concern when spending an hour a day on 80 mph freeways, even if the smaller size itself isn’t already

The modern gas Volvos do seem like a lot of fun. My absolute dream car, in a lot of ways, has always been the V70R (or, really, the 850 T-5R, if I lived somewhere where they'd been available w/ standard transmissions…but the V70R is a close second)—the Outback 2.5XT that I've been driving for the last 4+ years is great, and probably more reliable than the Volvo, but it still sort of feels like a facsimile. I never thought I'd consider buying an electric car, but I guess lots of "car guys" would probably say that. A buddy of mine (& a definite "car guy") got a Polestar II when they came out and he loves it. The interfaces are weird and all that, but fuck they're fast. That said, even if I could swing it at MSRP, I don't think I'd see it as a great value proposition—but these days enough of them are showing up on the used market for more or less half price that it's hard not to consider them, especially with how expensive used gas cars are right now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Neat choice @Broark, I have trouble getting behind those from an aesthetic perspective but they seem like the pragmatic choice in a lot ways, and of the models they make yours is by far the least bad looking I’ve been looking at EVs recently, too, and if the plan was to make it our only car that one ^ would definitely be in the running. As is, I’m most likely to land on either a Polestar II or one of the new Volvos, but it’s still pretty up in the air…all I know is my new(ish) job has me commuting 25 miles each way and the parking lot has free electric charging, so I’d be a fool not to take advantage

Not actually today Tilley / Tender x3 / Tezo / Hollows / Russell

Tilley / Tender Co. tux / Russell

Yep, it’s the lightweight slubby one from maybe 4 years ago. That’s funny—it’s one of my least favorite tees. Fit isn’t at all how it was described, the fabric’s really flimsy, and a few of the seams are just overlocked + straight stitched without any folding or topstitching, so they tend towards sitting weird. It just gets pulled out when it’s too hot for anything else

Back to the standard weather Great Lakes x2 / Tender Co. / Tezomeya / Hollows / Cane’s / Russell

Looks really cool @MJF9, much less out-there, when worn, than I'd expect it to be based on the flat photos (not that there's anything wrong with out-there) Are the pockets made from the same lighter denim as the sleeves?

Looks like some of the new season's wares have been making their way to retailers… I really like the look of the new Webbing Fly Shirt

My favorite (least favorite) example of this sort of thing is the logwood-dyed waist overalls from TCB / Viktor's Voice. The example that they were working from was heavily faded to a light brown, so they went through months of R&D to figure out how best to reproduce this light brown color using logwood dye. Meanwhile, the other example they were working from was standard denim heavily faded to a light blue. Did they dye the yarns for their reproduction light blue? No, of course not—they did the sensible thing and dyed them dark blue, with the hope & expectation that, if worn similarly to the originals, they would end up looking similar. This is what every repro company does for every indigo pair of jeans, and it never made any sense to me why they took such a different approach for the brown pair, just on the basis of that being the current color of the one example that they had access to.

Crazy hot out, here, for the past week Great Lakes / The Rite Stuff / Hollows / Sassafras / Russell

Anyone familiar with the Homesick label carried by Mirrorball? Really like the look of this shirt in particular https://www.the-rising.co.jp/item/1964/

Is size 18 new this season, for shirts?

How does the cut of the Uplander compare to the Skid Row? Really really like the look of that

Yesterday Great Lakes / Tender Co. / Tezomeya / Tightly Stitched / Cane’s / Russell

Whoa, I remember seeing those at some or other event at S&S probably close to 10 years ago, I would’ve assumed they were all long gone by now

Slow going?? The RB fabric is some of the quickest fading black denim I’ve seen, it feels like