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I'm left-handed and I can't imagine trying to button those up.

That seems lovely, thanks for the idea. I'm used to using the rinds of parmesan to cook, e.g., garbanzo beans; I think by the same token it would be nice to throw in the skin & ends of the guanciale—after all, the cheese and the meat certainly work well together on their own.

I really like the asparagus idea, too, but the season's just ending here. Maybe next year!

^ That looks great

I have about 300g left, and I'm still deciding how I'll use it—I'm thinking some will go into collard greens, but would be happy to see any and all suggestions

Really don't have much experience with cured meats, beyond just eating them plain…I'm pretty good at that bit

Scored some good guanciale from a long-time customer at the market, yesterday, and tried my hand at carbonara

No photos of the final product but I'd say it went pretty well for a first go

I love the black seed denim, but my Roy’s are some of my worst summer jeans as far as breathability goes

Bronson Mfg. Co. Daisy Mae after about two (three?) years' regular wear—at this point this is my only hat, so it sees plenty of sun and rain and sweat and all that

Started off dark, dark indigo

I really enjoy how much more heavily the front has faded than the back (first and second pics, respectively), I guess just due to wicking up that much more moisture

Yeah that's def. fair—you're right that the thighs wouldn't stretch as much as the waist, even if forced

This whole thing still seems kinda convoluted though

15 minutes ago, indigo_junkie said:

I follow the earlier advice and just purchase to thigh size (which you can't stretch out).

Why shouldn't you be able to stretch out the thighs? Sure, they won't stretch much from natural wear, but this whole conversation's about how to go out of your way to make jeans that don't fit into jeans that fit—building a thigh stretcher similar to the waist stretcher you've got yourself there would be very straightforward

Of course, buying jeans that fit in the first place will always be the simplest option…

Yeah, I’m all for defaulting to no arcs or other pocket stitching / painting

If I end up joining, there’s a good chance I’ll end up painting arcs on myself for the full effect—will be happy to share whatever stencil template I come up with if so

Painted cat ears would be a big turnoff for me, personally—I don’t generally mind whatever weird pocket stitching a brand chooses to use since stitching can be removed so easily, but getting fabric paint off takes a lot more than a seam ripper 

Be pretty wild if it wasn't

Personally, I really prefer constructed heels to single-piece sole + heel combos, and I really prefer unstructured toes, so the Lofgrens were an easy choice.

Without speaking any more to personal aesthetic preferences, I can say that the soles and heels on the Lofgrens have held up better than those on any other boots that I've worn in a while; after more than a year of heavy wear they're still looking pretty close to new.

Well if we're doing a TCB vs. Warehouse meta-contest, shouldn't it really be two navy ships pulling apart a cat?

I think slacks qualify  as General Nonsense?

^ I’m in the same position (my black Warehouse jeans surely don’t count)…why not both?

Great news! I don't think it's at all unreasonable having two mid-'40s contests run simultaneously, if that's what it comes down to—desperate times call for desperate measures and all that

Well, to be fair, the white socks pic does actually include shoes that [will presumably] look better with age…

edit: Not that I haven’t been enjoying your posts, personally—I just haven’t really figured out how to interpret them

There's also the A, B, C… used to reference model year after inception of some of their early- / mid-2000s models

For how sensible Sugar Cane's number codes generally are, the suffixes really seem pretty useless

Ed, what's the word on the inseam length? Will it be standard 32", or longer with the option to hem?

Still in, likely, if a longer inseam's available

The 105 was the one with red stitching, and I think it was an indigo / white chambray rather than a double indigo denim…in my memory, neither it nor the 100 used natural indigo, but it's been a while for me too…

^ Are you sure the lot 100 Hawaii were dyed with natural indigo? I remember seeing a price tag, at some point, that led me to believe that they were more like the precursor to the modern lot 401…but it’s not something I’ve ever looked into further

Y'all Southern California folks are wild

As soon as it hits 70, here, I start to think about switching to shorts

It's past 80 today and I'm not happy about it

^ The main thing I'm taking away from that post is how nice the oxidation is around the nails on your shed door—it's great to see how far it bleeds down through the grain below each one, especially compared to how little it bleeds on the rest of the shed where the grain's horizontal

Down with paint, down with shingles: raw wood's just as special as raw denim