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The SE page is the true bane of this forum user experience for me. Nothing to do with SE, just how the site operates.

Since I’m here I’ll share my Leica m10-d. This is, for my purposes, the best digital camera ever made. I could go on about why but I won’t. Maybe tied with the m10 monochrome (which I also use). I got this awhile back for a great deal and it had barely any shutter actuations on it. A gem of a find. It’s always laying around the house somewhere because I tend to use it every day or close to it. There are newer cameras with better specs etc but they’re not better cameras.

I would be too. Congrats! Some great towns and places around there. When I lived in NC I would get out to the parkway and the surrounding environs every chance I could get.

How are you certain that's the case? I wouldn't be surprised, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it's just not profitable...

^ They'll come in a little bit probably, but not much. Sleeves that are a little too long are always more welcome than ones that are too short, IMO. Chances are with the factory wash and the one you did most if not all of the notable shrinkage is out. You can always roll up the sleeve a little. It's pretty rare these things are perfect compared to a tailored piece, it's sort of the charm of them for some people.

The fabric is quite loose and drapey. I used to have them, I found my size 29's fit larger in the waist (possibly due to stretch) and my size 30's in the traditional fabric. They were totally anti-fit sort of thing.

I could see myself being in a similar situation some years down the road. Definitely short term memory of these last few years is compromised due to child/lack of sleep.

Excellence in an art or craft and running a business are two separate skills. Rarely does the same person exemplify both to a high degree. Sort of sucks that it needs to be the case so often, especially these days, but it's not an excuse for ripping people off. Even worse is that better sellers/businesspeople/con men tend to succeed more than the ones who are excellent in craft. Rewards go to the wrong places.

@Broark that’st the one and well, I’ll be damned. Thanks for that.

Love the sharp rivets - was pissed when Speedway hammered them down on my '22 jacket some time ago, and my RB jeans have ones that feel toned down from my earlier pairs =( Favorite FW detail probably. If I knew something wouldn't come with them I may actually not want the pair! My 51's have some pretty good wear on them but I never noticed the rivets dulling, but interesting to know. I always imagined they'd be easy to smash down given the way my '22 506xx came.

Happened to be wearing my edgiest t shirt myself yesterday. Mostly indoor house day because wildfire smoke from Canada made the outdoors not too great. pants are de bonne facture linen denim trousers, which I quite enjoy. don’t mind the slippers.

Police? Ah c'mon now. Are we so soft that dissenting opinions of items is that now? I miss the internet of 2005! I'll revert back to my universal approval of everything or keeping quiet so as not to perturb the gentle sensibilities of the board now 😃

There are some sentiments from the past that I'd just as well stay there. I got into denim because, primarily, I just really like the classic models and how they look after a lot of wear - well, and I met the people weaving the fabric and sewing up the jeans and liked the idea of knowing where my clothes came from. Simple as that, really. Hard to totally untangle fabric from culture, but suffice it to say that I've never much appreciated or taken an interest in many facets of culture where denim played a significant role. My idea of "cool" for whatever it's worth has always been hopelessly lame - a kind person with a benevolent spirit that works to make the world a better place in some way, and does a good job making sure they have good relationships with those that they love and, while being secure in that, really doesn't feel a need to project a certain edgy attitude outwards. Denim was sort of something you could get into appreciating as clothing without having it project much of anything because it's so ubiquitous/ neutral to most. I'm taking the shirt on its own terms - for me it's a message much more obviously than a vintage reference - one that I agree with @julian-wolf on. I sold my motorcycle after I got married, and really haven't missed it though. This is too much thought for a t shirt though! I can dig it in the sense of the graphic and understand those who do. It's just not the sort of thing I'm a fan of - and I could really map that onto almost all forms of macho/biker nostalgia really. Punk though - I'll get down with those irreverent repros - that's closer to the soundtrack of my youth 😃 I bought FW's RB jeans not because of motor psyclone, but because black denim was my first love!

With you there! Saw my first motorcycle crash when I was 10 or 11. Still remember the body on the pavement. No helmet, either. I can see an argument for cyclists in urban area with great cycinling infrastructure though. Anyways, not FW first swing and huge miss with a T though. Fits the Motor Psyclone brand at least, I guess. I’m partial to all things Great Lakes though, might have to look into that sweatshirt if it’s not gone already. Not being on IG since the beginning of the year I miss out on almost everything!

I know - and they shamefully haven’t even hit water. I keep wanting to but trying to focus on my WMJ and on the off days, pairs that have already had some wear. My backlog has gotten to be too much over the past few years. Right now I’m trying to thin out the stash a little and regain some focus in what has become my but never intended to be collection.…

I too was teetering on it but decided I’d done enough damage this year and nothing particularly stood out, especially given that I’m mostly wearing the same jeans (that I quite like) for a good while to come.

I had a general awareness of CSF just early enough to probably acquire some in reasonable time if I wanted it, but the old splash page on the website of some try hard chain smoking denim head and the rumblings about the proprietor was enough to put me off. Even moreso at that point, the brand image would speak to me more loudly than an especially well fading denim. But that still remains. That Denimseeker thing was the cherry on top, as noted, I couldn’t fathom how he even thought he had particular rights to those photos which were no doubt owned by the photographer or perhaps a company that they had been signed over to, but photographs don’t just transmutate into IP of whoever comes into possession of them. It was the most entitled shit I’d seen in awhile. And all directed at someone who had intentions that by all accounts looked pretty innocent and passion driven. None of this necessarily applies to Slash from what I’ve seen, I can understand a motivation to limit purchases to in person (maybe not as justification to command a super high price, this is where I get a little skeptical). That said, I’ve got a really hard time giving my money to someone who conducts themselves as an ass on the internet (this goes well beyond denim). I can’t know how they are in person, maybe they’re different at heart, but when all I’ve got to go on is how they present themselves I will take it at face value.

Yea, for me there's a certain sort of internet marketing that really does this as well. I think I've said before I have a lot of sympathy for the grind that is the one person/small business trying to use social media to generate interest and a living - and the sort of pressures that puts on a business and compromises it may demand (not maybe in denim, but in ethos). But just to needle a bit here - being obsessive about patterns and having an uncompromising view of what a good repro is feels hardly unique in this corner, right? I mean, there are other makers with this sort of ethos, even if they land on something a little different - we've long ago concluded there is no *one true repro* for a given year even. But it's like 1) if this dude only wants people who can buy it in person, well alright. I can't do that. Respect to that demand, if it's got to do with him trying to ensure the fit is such and such or people really love it and will have a higher chance of beating it up, or connect to it more given the onus that is put on them for showing up Or 2) if this is a way to generate internet interest and demand for a limited production item and ultimately charge a premium due to said demand then yea, no interest there either. The forum has a few examples of makers who have gotten a big following for their unique craftsmanship and then seemingly crumbled under their own hype, or started running a business in a way that is pretty askew from the sort of historical association that denim conjures. Admittedly, I do think my level of scrutinization of some things is a degree less - well, and maybe scrutinization of other things a degree higher ha. I can understand the best fitting jacket out of a bunch. The little differences in length or width here or there, on the sleeve or down the back or across the shoulder - it can really make all the difference if you've got a few to compare, but that's usually more a combination of the person + maker rather than either alone. That said, I think I'm still not convinced that the hard to getness of it isn't the main thing. Which is fine. Only going off internet pictures and measurements etc. Perhaps one day I get to handle a pair in person and change my mind, but I doubt it. All of that said, this forum is way better obsessing about details than forums about photography equipment. Those places have almost been enough to make me disown my profession! So many words wasted on so little of what makes great photography - but I'll digress and keep it OT here.

I’ve admittedly still got a thing or two to learn about the corners of the repro denim world, but help enlighten me - what’s the unique appeal of Slash? Usually I can squint and see it - a particular detail combined with a particular fabric or pattern etc. So far’s I can tell with Slash it just seems to be the hard to get ness of it. I’m sure I’m missing something - does the fabric look that special? The patterns just a little unique? The sewing a (different) personal touch than other one/two person makers?

Ask any honest dermatologist - needing sunscreen, esp obsessive coverage with high spf reapplied all the time isn’ universal. They’ve just taken the measure that pale skinned people with skin cancer in their lineage need to take and made that public health guidance for everyone because they figure the public can’t parse the nuances. The reality is that the risk profile is different (less) for someone with darker skin and a history of not really burning and no skin cancer in their family, for example. That’s not me though, so I try to be decent enough protection - preferably thru clothes and hats tho.

I’m at the (Lake Michigan) beach a fair amount in summer. As I am right now. Usually a hooded sun shirt and trunks during the day, but the wind coming off the lake often means jeans aren’t a bad idea morning and evening. But guys - for me this linen denim thing is a revelation for me. I got Ues ww2 pair last year, but also de bonne facture made a weave (not selvedge, sorry) and put it in some baggy denim denim trousers that I love - dare say the fabric seems a better quality than what Ues spun up. Less picks, less loom chatter, better color. Both are winners though. Since I’m generally preferring pants even in warmer weather this is the best jean solution I’ve found for warmer days. Once it’s past 85* tho I really have to assess what I’m gonna be doing outside, shorts might still win.

I suppose it was Simo's blood sweat and tears that caused the rust that I got on that first soak!

Rust for me showed up on the first soak and has only gotten marginally more pronounced since then through multiple washes. The water where I am is hard, but not super hard.

^ yea - I’m way less enthused about shoe buying over the internet in general. A good fit is a lot less open to interpretation than with jeans.

Good t shirt