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@chicote if you ever do pass through Ann Arbor or Detroit, please do drop a line. We have much we could discuss over a coffee. I am nodding along with the majority of your post. It’s funny, as a photographer and photojournalist myself I’m often considered slow to some peers because I don’t use my camera as a phone. But I still take too many pictures and still use digital (since 2015). What Curtis and his peers did was almost of an entirely different medium at this point, and in many ways I do envy it. I reflect on Lewis Hine a lot as well because to my mind he did some of the most impactful work ever made, and was another one of the first to try to make picture out of social concern. He did so in a way I think would be overlooked today. Still impossible to make a living at it - I was just talking to a writer friend tonight and she was telling me about a photographer she had recently visited (and who I know of because she’s highly renowned as a documentary photographer) and the woman is barely getting by, on food stamps. She’s probably one of the best and most well know American practitioners of the medium.

I don’t recall that but it sounds like me. I am always behind the iPhone times but not by too much (went from a 6 to a 12 a year or two ago). I am still trying to figure out how to live without one without pissing off all my friends and family, and yes, myself too I guess. Ultimately I’ll choose them over a solitary life. But I mean hell, now it’s attached to our car, our TV, our f’n thermostat. I am trying to draw the line somewhere but it only gets worse. It’s been enough of an issue in my current position that I don’t use Twitter and Whatsapp! I am forever envisioning a better way to live and failing at getting there.

This has been an ancillary part of my study this year. It's terrifying shit, honestly. We're never going to recover from it, and we're too young to know the effects from it. If you need another argument for both buying less shit, and only buying natural materials, here we go. https://www.veronicabateskassatly.com/read/was-it-polyester-all-along And try as I might I cannot keep this stuff out of my own house. Convenience is the biggest drug.

@Geeman I've never tried them, but I'm with you - the measurements never made them appealing to me for that same reason.

I don't know exactly how it works, but I generally get kicked to the second to last page of a topic if there aren't something like 5+ posts on the brand new page. It's annoying, but I never cared enough to dig into it. When I get notifications it pretty much never takes me to the post that the notification references. It's always like scroll up or down 5-10 posts to find it.

I already have 2 (different) 900's, and they both see a good bit of use. I'm glad this isn't my size because I wouldn't think twice about it.

The pricing is silly. That said, it’s worth it for how much better I sleep. If I were the investing type I’d definitely keep an eye on N/A companies because they get away huge margins it seems! @rbeck - glad to see the fisheye is alive and well at the hardcore dive shows. All it needs is a dragged shutter and a twist for some light trails.

I know I've seen Guinness Extra over here. I've even had it, though I prefer the original. I'm not sure it was Foreign Extra. I'm with you all on the IPA thing - but I wasn't even much a fan when the boom started. I liked the craft beer movement for what it could offer in stouts, porters and sours, but I rarely drink these days (few times a year?) and if I do, I still go to old favorites - that being a nice red or regular Guinness, actually. The one thing I do appreciate now is that there are plenty of good N/A options available - except the Guinness N/A is one of the sorrier one's I've tried. Everything gets a bit of a pass because it's not got any booze, but there is still a quality spectrum.

Just posted on Waywt and since it's all Tender again why not here. Yep, a markedly different fit was what I was after, and I've got it here. The 129's are still getting worn so I didn't want a replacement, per se, and I've learned I don't love hems that are characteristic of a lot of wider jeans so the full cut with the somewhat normal hem made sense for me here, sized up because it's fun to have a truly baggy pair in the mix and I haven't for too long. I did end up giving them a hot wash and double rinse because they were crocking like crazy, and I wanted to see if I could get any last bit of shrink out. I didn't do measurements but they did tighten up a bit, including the denim itself which now feels a touch closer to the Woad denim. Thanks for the note about the belt loops, interesting tidbit there.

Happy New Year everyone. Still mostly on Tender at the moment, everything except the pullover (Polar) and the hat (Inis Meain).

You've got the true Warehouse detail, which is the pocket thread stitching coming undone in the first few weeks of wear. Bank all the sleep you can now, you'll need it!

Probably a healthy and active social and community life. Turns out that's worth a lot of years.

I use a fifteen year old tin of Clark’s Weatherproofing conditioner on all my nicest leather shoes. I think I got it for $4 from an outlet store off the interstate. I’m sure I’m missing something but it’s never left me sad. Comparison being the thief of joy and all that.

I guess just another thing to illustrate that those of us who deal with Hoosier are fortunate to know about him. Can’t say if my 30x30s are objectively good looking, but they’re probably the best overall sort of timeless fit I’ve had straightaway. Mind you, I sometimes prefer something less conventional. But I’m in academia for a fellowship year and they’re my pair for that, so the wear isn’t too tough, and after just a few months I’ve started washing them a lot as I fancy a lighter pair. As far as fades go they won’t be anything to note. I think my 30x30 51’s are the only pair to date that I’d entertain buying the exact same thing again when they wear out. Everything else I’ve had, even favorites, there’s something about them I want tweaked and so the next pair isn’t a repeat.

Can confirm that. My 51’s came 30x30, it was a real treat to find that size from a brand like this and not need a hem.

Comparison for fun. 4 yr old woad dyed 129s, fresh indigo (garment dyed) Achilles heel 132’s. I went big and got a size up for some true anti fit jeans. First time I’ve done that in years, so not expecting much in defined fades on these, not that garment dyed pieces lend themselves to that anyways. My hands turned blue just putting them in the pockets so they’re doing another hot hot soak to get rid of some dye and maybe get some shrink out. Curiously this new denim feels a bit different than the Woad pair - it feels a little softer, a little lighter, a little bit of a looser weave - something like that. Can’t quite put my finger on it. Also, some little details seem to have changed a touch over the years. Belt loops and snobs thumb pocket seem patterned slightly differently, or else the variations in batches might be more than just the denim. Not a criticism, just an observation.

Not sure why but I’m a fan of them. I got something from Speedway awhile back and they’d filed them down, I was pretty annoyed by that. Doesn’t matter in the end but I do find the rivets (and the fat rounded backs) part of the charm.

Happy new year all. I’m in my tender 129s, which are sufficiently beat in and I have a pair of 132 Achilles Heel on the way. I’ve waited a few years to settle on a roomier pair of my favorite denim and decided to go with the originals. It will be interesting to see how the indigo overdye compares to the woad overdye after some years of wear.

Tender Sidings boots - which is what I usually go for if I’m not going to wear sneakers or birks.

conditioning a pair of sidings boots pairs. On the right, about 3.5 years worn occasionally. On the left not even a year, worn occasionally. Right is a size larger, ultimately a little too big unless I wear super thick socks, but at this point quite comfortable. A little bummed the tab on the left boot ripped off recently, hoping to avoid that with the black boots. I love how the leather is coming along and curious how the black pair looks in a few years.

@vlad_III maybe it does vary, because my 507xx 1951 jacket was an exact match with the jeans when new (I got the tux some time ago), and while I don’t have the 47, both are lighter and even a different shade of blue (more red cast) than in your photo.

@Double 0 Soul like something pulled out of a mineshaft. The jacket is particularly good.

The 51 denim (both the jeans and the jacket) start out a noticeably lighter shade of blue than anything else I've seen from FW, and from most other denims for that matter. I haven't handled the 47's but if the above photo is supposed to be a comparison of 47 and 51, I'd say that the color is definitely inaccurate, as the shade of the 51 is not reflected in that image.

@Duke Mantee that looks so good. One of these days...

i'm a 30 but I'm sure could oversize a pair. and yet. meh. I'm sure they're nice. But too many things already.