yung_flynn

TCB missed their opportunity to market their No. 2 jacket as quintuple selvedge for the 2x price markup

I just tried mine on as well. I agree. I'm pleasantly surprised and happy with the fit. They're higher rise and wider legged than the size chart made them seem, sitting right at the belly button. I had the same sizing experience. I'm about 31.5" around and 32 fits well. Somehow it's comfortably loose in the waist, yet stays up without issue. In a weird way, the fit reminds me a lot of dress trousers which I like since it doesn't limit them to strictly workwear looks. I had belt loops added to these as well. I'll post some more pics of the jeans when I'm less busy

TCB/Kamakura/Warehouse/Alden more pics to come of TCB no 2 jacket and jeans later. Realized that I wore almost the same exact thing yesterday minus the jacket Brooks Brothers/TCB/Franks

My pair arrived today. I have not had a chance to try them on or look at them in detail yet. I'm excited to see how they fit and develop even if I'm not fully committed to everyday wear at this point in time I'm wearing the jacket though and it's nice. It's really lightweight and I wished that it had arrived earlier in summer. The stitching is and the fabric are really cool even at a cursory glance. Even unworn, I can tell that these will have a lot of vertical falling texture when faded.

Some of the stuff has gotten picked over, but there are still some cool Orrizonti era Bedford jeans and bootcuts. Items for sale by wellwornvintageco | eBay

These look really nice. The wide belt loops and fabric especially remind me of Jack Donnelly chinos and vintage 60s era Ivy style ones

J Press madras popover/Denime/Rancourt

I've seen people give sizing recommendations as "true to size" plenty of times and also never quite get what they mean. I've always been a detailed size chart person and pay little to no attention to the tag though, which is part of the reason why the "true to size" claim is confusing to me. I have a tagged size 31 Warehouse 1001xx, a tagged size 32 Sugar Cane 1947, and a tagged size 33 Shins-era Denime that all fit my 31.5" natural waist similarly. Using different logic, I can contort my mind into believing that any of those are true-to-size. The other thing that makes the tagged size being "true-to-size" confusing and not very useful in my own mind is that this classification does not account for different rises. A 9.5" rise pair would probably need a larger waist measurement than a 13" rise pair, so they would either have the same tagged size and fit across the waistband identically and be "true-to-size" to one person despite measuring differently, or they would have different tagged sizes that match their different measurements and be "true-to-size" to a different person because the tagged size matches the actual measurements.

Fair enough. Even 3 months out, my memory makes it seem less stressful than I know that it was in the moment. Thankfully my parental leave is incredibly generous or I have no clue how we would have done it

@Broark Congratulations! As a new first time dad, the first night at home alone with the baby is truly terrifying for the unknown. The rest afterwards though is great

I still think that the handsewn looks a little better in a rough-and-tumble way, but it's not like the machine sewn ones look bad especially for the price delta. To my understanding, the leisure mechanical sewn loafers are mostly just the machine stitched moc-toe from the non-shell Indy boots (shell ones are hand sewn) translated to the Van last loafers. I like the machine stitched Indy, so I'd probably like these as well

I picked up some Franks boots over Fathers Day and they arrived last week. I’m just getting around to posting pics now but they’ve been breaking in nicely since these photos were taken. These are the stock Wilshire model in Seidel’s Brown Domain leather

Wythe tencel pearl snap/Jungmaven tee/Warehouse/Alden

Yeah I got a Denime jacket direct from Celluloid in the spring and the overall process was easy and only about $10-20 than Bears would have been if they still had stock. International shipping was free as well.They'll just email you to confirm your shipping address after checkout. I'm just not sure what would happen post-checkout in this particular case since I don't know how stringent FC is with their international price control and restrictions beyond Bears. It's all a moot point for me since FC inseams are too short for my legs, so I haven't explored any further than a cursory price check for curiosity's sake. It should be pretty easy to confirm with Celluloid customer service that there is no special international restrictions similar to those that Hinoya seems to have with PBJ.

Celluloid still has the 11.5 oz 1101 listed for the equivalent of about $200 USD and has most sizes still in stock. Sounds like they will still be cheaper even after the new discount. To be fair, I have not tried to purchase them, so maybe something funny happens once you try to checkout with international shipping