julian-wolf

Great Lakes / Tender Co. / Union Special / Cane’s / Russell

Great detective work there All things considered, that seems much easier to follow than M1* / SC1* = jackets, M4* / SC4* = pants, etc.…I wonder why they decided to switch it up

Yes, I've seen MJ codes on a few Henry Lear jackets before, but never made much of it. There was a Henry Lear take on the 65/35 Mountain Parka that I was really interested in for a while (I'm forever in love with the original Sierra Designs version), but I never had any luck finding any in my size. Looks like at least a couple are still up on Yahoo + Mercari. This is the first and only time I've seen any MJ-series denim. I wonder whether the takeaway is that all the non-denim jackets we're seeing are from the MP / MJ era, or just that they continued that numbering convention for non-denim items after switching to M-series for denim? The latter would be similar to how Buzz Rickson's stuff still kept M-series tags until (I think) just a few years ago, long after main-line Sugar Cane had switched to SC-series.

The Tender Co. denim pocket bags are pretty bullet proof

Here's something I've never seen before I guess in the era before M-series product numbers, when Pants were given MP-series numbers, Jackets were given MJ-series… (Can anyone confirm???) Sorry for the low-quality images; Mercari Shops is being weird

In action Great Lakes / Sun Surf / Cane’s / Russell

Picked up two new pairs of riding gloves from James Churchill, both unlined deerskin—really comfortable so far

@mlwdp They look nice & thick What are your first impressions? Seem comfortable? What are they made of?

@rbeck They’re looking great, looking forward to a real update when the time comes Great Lakes / Tender shades / Ooe / Tezo / Duke / Cane’s + Russell vellies

Picked up these 4005C recently for a good price Can’t find much info on them, but I guess they’re a different fabric (LHT with a brown, maybe plant dyed warp and a dark weft) version of the 3005C from around 2004–2006. Classic mid-‘50s detailing with a zipper fly, and of course the old editable arcs These have clearly been worn an okay amount based on the lightening around the seat & thighs, but there’s no noticeable damage of any sort, and if I were just looking at the hems, seams, tags, & patch I’d guess that they’d never (or very seldom) been washed The fit’s good, a little on the slim end but still within the range of what I’ve been enjoying wearing recently. I’ll post some fits at some point. Overall, pretty excited for these

Not sure what you mean by this. Are you suggesting that for a higher rise you’ll want shorter legs? If so, yeah, that’s generally wrong. Overall, it seems like you’re maybe expecting to glean a little too much from measurements. Clothes are complicated 3D shapes, and a few simple 1D measurements are never going to do a great job of describing how they’ll fit, at least beyond “yeah, that’s probably the right size” or “those are definitely too slim”. On top of that, if you’re used to having issues with jeans’ thighs being too slim, it’s likely that the most relevant measurement would be the width of the legs 3–6” below the crotch seam, since this is where pants tend to get the most restrictive—and this rarely shows up on any size charts anyways. I can’t say whether this is still the case for their newer models, but historically Momotaro’s cuts have tended to be fairly slim through the seat and not so rounded through the hips (something that isn’t expressed in measurement charts), so that could be a limiting factor as well if you’ve been lifting.

^ Maybe MOTO or Black Sign? Are either of those long enough? Or Dawson’s Wide Tapered cut? You’re right that Warehouse isn’t likely to work well for you

I'm sure this has been asked before (hell, I've probably even asked it myself), but how's sizing on Buzz shirts? Interested in the classic chambray work shirt (and also the recent William Gibson version). How does the XL fit compared to a Warehouse 42 or a Freewheelers 17?

You’re even a nerd about lighting; most of us these days would settle for fluorescent

That perspective might shift if you had some tees made from fabric worth appreciating After all, I’d bet a vast majority of folks would say the same about jeans if asked, and you’ve never seemed to have any trouble on that front

Great Lakes x2 / The Flat Head / The Vanishing West / Russell

Looks great—I love the use of the original hem for the top of the pocket (+ the busted seam down the middle)

I never thought I’d see the day that @Double 0 Soul would consider spending more than £5 on a cotton tee shirt

I was tempted to set up something like the above ^ just to get around storage + battery limitations on my phone…but in the end decided against it since, even with the bit of extra space, fitting everything on the local drive would have meant downconverting my whole library, and even then it would probably have been tight In stead I landed on moving all my media to a Synology NAS box, and setting up a lightweight Plex server. It was pretty straightforward to get it up and running, and it lets me stream my music from anywhere without needing to do any conversions or make any copies. It also gives me easy access to streaming my movies & TV, although that collection is quite a bit smaller. As an added bonus, there’s enough room on the NAS that I was able to set up an extra partition for keeping backups of my computer and phone. I’d definitely recommend a similar setup to anyone with a large library

Any experience with (or info relating to) S-mart / Smart Japan / Work Pig? https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h1151642979

Wrong thread—the last few posts had me confused I guess

Jumped the gun walking back to pick up my phone Great Lakes x2 / Cane’s / MOTO

‘51 601XX, as requested Next minor repair will be a patch around the top of the right outseam where the front leg panel is wearing through, I guess since the pocket backing is cut a good bit wider than the leg itself causing a little bulge that rubs on my bag

In other news… Picked up my absolute dream pair around a month ago, the M41059. I actually already had a pair, which I’d found years ago in the same size (33) as my first M41058, but it turned out that these run around a size smaller, and there was no chance they were going to be comfortable after shrinking. These new ones are tagged 35, and in great condition. Ignoring older MP-series wares like the above, this model has always been right at the top of the list of Cane’s I’d like to find.

Resurrecting this from the depths… This was a pair of (supposedly) M41030 that didn't quite match up—pink line denim, in stead of white, and a number of other details different from the standard M41030. Well, looking back through the thread, I'm seeing the S.C. & Co - T.Y. rivet shanks with the "25" in the middle, which just came up in the last page or so in the context of a pair I saw on Yahoo that looked like MP-series, but didn't have much on which to base an ID. @Maynard Friedman suggested that they were likely a 1990 production, with the 25 referencing the Toyo Enterprise 25th anniversary. Seemed very plausible. As it happens, these were made from a pretty similar looking pink-line denim to the pair above. Maybe @Graytrain's pair were a very early version, still using left over rivets from 2–3 years earlier, and possibly a transition late-MP / early-M denim?