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The word panic implies some degree of irrational response. I know someone who is generally a very rational and restrained top economist. They just bought a car they were going to wait a few years on, specifically because of current events. Generally that would be quite out of character. For my part my EMS parcel came last week without trouble (which was not a reaction buy), there is one other one still making it’s way through - my curiosity about the Silverstone Groundalls WW2 pair couldn’t withstand the chaos. I don’t expect any issue there either. Right now the de minimis exemption is active but is scheduled to end May 2 for good from China and Hong Kong and there aren’t concrete plans to end it from elsewhere though that is certainly on the tale. Good chance for those in the US our money will be worth less and the jeans price will be higher pretty soon though. The real issue is the stability of the dollar. Who knows what will happen but buckle up!

Funny, I had the exact same experience. Anyways, after that I’d decided I would pick up a pair if it came easily enough, that I wouldn’t make a mad dash and if I missed out so be it. Enough good options out there. It’s worked out okay.

I think Ooe mentioned that multiple times on their IG account it was going to be limited to Inspiration - which isn’t S+S. Instagram (unfortunately, in my opinion) seems to be their preferred and only way they communicate with their customers. They have for a long time made certain models for certain occasions - whether is inspiration, s+s, Holk or Barnstormer in Japan etc. I don’t think this means they won’t make more for retail, but it also might. Regardless, they’re not bound by any speculation on this site. I’d like a pair and was hoping for that to be available too but oh well.

^ I think it just means they made these things exclusively for Inspiration?

Ooe / Farm sweatshirt / WMJ / Quoddy

^ that’s what the 611 was for! 😏 or maybe I just sized a bit generously? It’s funny how loose and free these feel compared to my usual pairs - aside from my sized up 132s, that is.

Good reminder. Seems like, but ... this is a wild ride.

Talk about nonsense. Yep. Currently have a parcel en route, we’ll see what happens to that.

xx4 denim raw and with maybe 10 months of wear. The comparison makes me feel that maybe it’s not as slow fading as I had thought.

Sunny but cold enough to get my favorite sleeping bag back out. Inis meain / jackman / Kapital / WMJ / NBx Lost Art made in UK

This is really just a contest of self discipline / willpower / focus isn’t it? (I suppose laziness and/or brokeness can be a big advantage too)

@Geemanhow do you find them? I’ve run in zero drop Merrell’s for over a decade now, but my mileage has definitely gone down in recent years, only doing 10 or 20 a week now because I train with a lot more variety. The zero drop shoes really helped me improve my running gait and efficiency (cured me of my heel strike tendencies, and i finally broke a 5 min miles when I was 30 in them), but…my ankles and feet are so f*cked from my years on the skateboard I’m wondering if going back to some padding might help in the long run, and make the miles I do kinder. Is there much lateral stability in these things? They look like an ankle sprain waiting to happen to me but I haven’t tried them.

^ Yea I’m not gonna claim any moral high ground here. I have a pair of their skate shoes from 10 years ago or so I still kick around (I got them on clearance). But, as a company they are pretty damn odious, much like Levi’s. I don’t think, even if Levi’s made an actual perfect stitch for stitch reproduction of their vintage jeans I would be interested at this point. Maybe if they kick started White Oak to get up and running again and gave those people back their jobs I’d think about it? But probably not. But I really don’t like Nike personally because of what they did to skateboarding. Nike getting in was a big part of it changing a lot in ways that for me - drove the culture in an uninteresting direction. I appreciate some like the advancements and competitive and institutional nature their entry had a role in ushering in. I didn’t. Smaller skate shoes companies had a much better shot and even stayed somewhat solvent much more often before they entered. Basically, they had a major role in killing off or badly damaging a lot of the brands that would trigger that same nostalgia for me. Funny enough, in my teenage years, my other sport for a good while was distance running - I ran XC - but I always liked running in Asics better and set all my old (mediocre) PR’s in those. Japanese brand. Go figure.

Nah, that antipathy is just fine.

@beautiful_FrEaK I haven’t had that issue, no. I really feel like it fits me well all over, the crop is the only thing to take into account. But also, while I’m not a big guy my traps really are a bit are disproportionately developed (I used to a lot of kettlebell lifting primarily, lots of pulling work) - and the shoulders/chest have been the problem areas for me in some jackets that would otherwise be rightly sized.