Pedro

PaulT,

You got to see Valencia Street?

Thats pretty cool.

Correction.

Thats really cool.

MOO-ove On Indeed.

@MJF9

Excellente !

Isn’t there some forum rule about posting photos of the Kardashians?

8 hours ago, kicks79 said:

@Pedro To a lot of people, it's not a laughing matter at all.  Why make fun of someone because they care about animals? 

Are you seriously equating the life of a cow with cotton plants? 

I was not making fun of people. I was laughing at the idea of shipping fancy britches off to a foreign land to have a patch replaced as a complete waste of limited earth resources. BTW, what do they do with the leather one? Throw it away? Or repurpose it? Great example of a First World Problem.

And for the record, yes, I do not differentiate between living organisms. I think a tree/plant is no different from a bovine or a human.

I find such prejudice (that some living organisms do not matter) offensive and it sounds like you are criticizing my belief that I care about all living things. Are you making fun of me?  Lol

And I agree with the poster above about cloth patches being quite brilliant. My favorite patch is the old white Levis patch found on the 201s.

A Vegan patch to replace a leather one?

Now that is funny.

What about the right to live for all those cotton plants that were mercilessly cut down and mutilated for the sake of fancy britches?

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@Dry,

Did you buy them on sale?

Why is it anyones business why Kiya did so? It sounds like a “Nosey Nellie” sorta question.

It looks like bleach blond is the new black.

@Geeman,

I thought I knew most of the BKK denim shops but Indigoskin is a new one to me.

Sadly it appears to be online store only.

Cheers

13 hours ago, mpukas said:

For most everyone considering buying that jacket they'd never put it to use as real work wear.  Maybe waxed canvas, but waxed fabric doesn't breathe - trade offs... F', for $725-$750 one can have an IH N1 or N2 alpaca lined Deck jacket. Which is a serious consideration... 

Waxed canvas always gets embedded dirt for me when using it for work, I used to have to buy the Filsons quite large because a wash was always an eventuality. Even my Barbour dress jacket suffers from this.

Looks to have a bi-swing back. Thats a great option.

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@Flash

Amen.

@propellerbeanie

Huh? Its LVC. Its supposed to be a faithful reproduction by definition. Or atleast an honest attempt (thats why we allowed them to jack the price 500%). Otherwise, whats the point? We just spent decades reveling in the subtle differences between model years. Now we are saying “cool beans, I like that Levis is not just giving us the same old 1966 because it was getting so boring”.

;-)

Have we now just become apologists for Levis? Enablers of their single need for profit? Jaja.

3 hours ago, Flash said:

So you think all pairs post ww2 501's had symmetrical arcs ? Because they were all over the place 

Well Flash, in answer to your friendly non-argumentative question, yes, having been alive and wearing and seeing many other people wearing 1966 STF back then, I do not ever recall seeing one back pocket look as unbalanced and high centered as the one in the photo that introduced this topic.

I really need to stay off the Levis forum.

I feel like a faithful spouse of nearly 50 years who just learns the love of his life who he has always been loyal to is turning cheap tricks down on the corner for spare change.

Levis is dead to me and there are plenty of Asian brides more deserving my attention who have kept their values. 

Yes I did think Levis was trying to give those 66’s with the asymetrical arch a similar appearance to the freehand pre-47’s.

when I see a diamond mated to non-uniform arches, then it just looks incorrect to my memory when we were still finding STF ‘66s on the store shelves.

17 minutes ago, Flash said:

What exactly is your point ? 

My point is the arcuate looks hideous Flash. I thought I made that quite clear in the earlier post when I said, “This arcuate looks hideous”.

Put your handful of stones down Buddy. You are not in church and nobody is insulting Jesus. 

On 9/30/2019 at 12:59 AM, Maynard Friedman said:

I don’t think it’s supposed to be a freehand sewn look on the LVC 66, it’s simply a shallow, albeit asymmetric arcuate, sewn with the twin needle machines that had been in use since the 1940s. It seems that LVC may have varied it slightly from previous runs of 66, using artistic licence, although it’s quite possible they are basing it on a pair in their archives. I think they also want it to look significantly different from other post-war models so each cut has its own unique identity.

I thought the very asymmetrical arcuate was intended to suggest the freehand of the pre-47’s ?

Isn’t  it varied more than slightly from various runs of 1966? Can someone post photos of genuine 1966 back pockets to refresh my memory that they have always looked like this? 

All I meant was the even double-needing spacing was part of the same era as other advancements that resulted in symmetrical arcuates and far more equal vertical spacing so to me it looks like some kind of cheap knock-off that floods the marketplace and resulted in the many articles “How to Spot a Fake” (a mishmash of years).

Maybe I misunderstood and the photo was not an LVC line? If it was LVC then I thought the whole point was to remain authentically detailed to a specific year production. I mean its a 1966 and it looks as false as if they had chosen to paint the arcuates on ala the 1944 war years.

But I mean come on guys. You are Levi true believers. Have you ever met a Levi you haven’t liked? Jaja. The further Levis falls into disgrace, the more this board clings to the corporate giant and treats it as some kind of prophet and any criticism becomes blaspheme. 

This is from Levis website:

1. In 1947, double-needle machines were first used in the company’s factories to stitch the Arcuate design. This meant that the design of the stitching became uniform, nailing the diamond-shape that we still see today.

https://www.levistrauss.com/2018/11/15/happy-75th-anniversary-arcuate-5-facts-pocket-design/

16 hours ago, julian-wolf said:

The ‘60s arcuates are sewn on a double-needle machine—no amount of “freehanding” will make the two rows of stitching look closer or farther from each other.

 

Obviously.

Thats my point.

3 hours ago, 428CJ said:

LVC 1966s?

Looks great to me. I like all kind and manner of Levi's arcs, and those are no exception. I love the big pockets of the '66s, and the interesting looking shallow dip on the arcs.

My pair after their first wash (posted above on this page):

Well the wash helps it a little but the spacing between the two arcuate lines is too uniform to match their desire for a freehand look by their making the arcuate so mismatched between left & right of center. They are trying too hard to make it unique and it looks like a 2nd grader who still lacks spacial awareness and balance. 

Now if you want to mimick the individuality of the early ‘30s freehand stitching above then the mismatched left/right arc need to be paired with spacing that widens instead of that uniform 1/4” of the newer machines. But thats just me.

Personally, other than the early freehand arcs of Levis, I think SC has improved on the Levi arc with their large, deep broken arc designs.