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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

I tried to go full Hayashi-style today Polo Ralph Lauren/Denime Kyoto/Rancourt I initially tried to recreate one of the Resolute style pics for fun with mixed results (seated shots are hard)

To be fair, I measured the front rise of my pair and its about 27 cm out of the box for the size 33 with a 12" thigh at the crotch and 7.75" leg opening and probably stretched another 1 cm after wearing. The rise just feels and looks really low because my legs are very long. Still a pretty low rise by repro standards and lower than my general preference, but the overall pattern makes it work much better on me than other pants that I have tried with comparable rises

Here are the Kyoto fit pics. I don’t really gravitate towards these cuts at the moment, but the pattern on these is really well done. I still wish that the rise was a bit higher. These seem like Resolute 710 through the legs and 711 in the rise. Regardless I quite like them and I’ll probably get used to a lower rise again after wearing these for a bit. The more that I look at them, the less wear that I think they’ve had. I’d be surprised if they’ve been worn more than 10 times and washed more than 1 or 2 times. I promise to still grab some macro shots of the details and denim when I get some time and the lighting is better.

My initial reaction to the butt sag of the No. 2 was a big hmmm. The more that I see people wearing them though on TCB's instagram, the more that the sag has really grown on me. It feels like a return to my high school pants preferences circa 2008-2010. It's actually hard to find a pair that isn't relatively tight on my butt, even my 50s paired sized up one is a bit more fitted than saggy. I'm looking forward to trying on my pair once they arrive and seeing how they fade even if the nature of the details limits their usage a bit.

Kyotos arrived today. They’re in even better condition than the photos suggested. They seem to have almost no wear - nice and hairy, very minimal roping and seam puckering, and blueberry in color. The patch still has the batwing too. I just wish that they had an extra inch in the rise. It’s been a bit since I have worn anything less than 11”. I will grab some fit and detail photos when I get the chance sometime in the next week or so.

The description of that Moto pair makes them sound like the TCB-made 90s style cut (which Moto specifically calls out) that some people (can’t remember who exactly) were hoping for in the TCB Contest thread with the addition of suspender rivets on these. They look great

I did not get my Duck Digger pair new or raw so I only know the end point, but they've plateaued at 80-81 cm which is pretty consistent with Hinoya's estimate of 7 cm shrinkage assuming that my pair also started at 88 cm. I wish that they were 2" longer though - at my height I have no choice but to wear them Hayashi-style

After a long period of deliberation and remeasuring my slimmest pair (a modern day 501 that I still keep as reference and which is slimmer than the Kyotos), I finally scooped these up today. There aren't too many older pairs that pop up in both my waist and inseam (31/33, 31/34) so I figured that this was my chance. Worst case they will fill the 60s repro void in my closet

I know that the big Alden-heads really hate the mechanically sewn models, but I have not seen them in person so my knowledge is all secondhand. They could actually be bad or it could just be frustration at change. I've never really dabbled in Alden loafers because my feet make loafer sizing very difficult and I'm never in a place with an Alden stockist for long enough to get properly sized. It's also relatively hard to find secondhand pairs in long and narrow sizes to take a quick sizing flyer. Alden Model Project compiles all the second hand listings too if you can find a pair in your size. I would not pay much more than $200 - non-shell loafers don't hold the same resale value as their boots. https://aldenmodelproject.com/

I like the softer lines and toe bump of the LHS but the wait time can be huge. If you have a pair of non shell Alden Indy’s, the faux moc toe stitching will be machine sewn so you could imagine that on a loafer. The shell Indy’s are hand sewn. Have you checked The Shoe Mart for factory seconds of the LHS? You should be able to get some for 30-40% discount

Some of the conversation here feels in the spirit of some of the philosophical thoughts (both clothing/style and otherwise) that I've been thinking about during late nights with my son. Here is my screed. There are all sorts of different reasons that lead people to choose the items that they wear. They may dress a certain way due to economics, aesthetics, to generate "likes", to blend in, to stand out, to convey affinity or membership in a particular subculture, because they just enjoy wearing particular items for the sake of it, etc. Obviously, these reasons are not all mutually exclusive. In the image and click based world of today, arguably certain reasons are privileged more than others. In an Instagram fit pic, a pair of vintage Evis Lot 2501 No. 1 (as an example pertinent to this thread) will be more or less indistinguishable from a pair of modern day Levis or mall brand jeans and would generate no more likes or hype, as opposed to say the Oni Asphalt fabric. In the real world though, their is an intangible element to those Evis that can only be experienced through love and wear - the tactile experience of the fabric, the history, the passion, dedication, and craftsmanship of the creator. This goes beyond clothing as well, at least it does for me. It's similar to the reason why I collect vintage pulp hardboiled and sci-fi paperbacks rather than the modern day reissues of those titles. I just love the vintage Robert McGinnis cover art as opposed to the more soulless covers of today. It's the reason why I'm going to start getting into film photography (at least occasionally) with an old Nikon SLR and an old Leica rangefinder. Sure I can probably create more technically perfect images with my Fuji mirrorless camera and Lightroom, but then I lose some of the tactile joy and craft of the analog experience. Rather than spamming 100s of shots for the perfect image, I have to be much more deliberate in my choices. Even in my professional area of science (chemistry,chemical engineering/soft matter physics), there was a sense of discovery, wonder, and careful details present in older literature than in contemporary literature. These older works often did science for the sake of fundamental discovery and carefully crafted experiments and shared the results in a more sober matter-of-fact manner. I never learned as much as I did from literature from the mid-90s and earlier. Today, as in denim, a lot of the work fixates more on the final product than the journey. Large portions of academic research focus more on device fabrication and subsequent commodification in search of an easy start-up spinoff or payday at the expense of fundamental research. I don't blame them since such hype generation drives a lot of the funding decisions, at least in the US, but this reality is ultimately what led me away from academic roles/professorships and is partly why I'm now an industrial scientist. To conclude and as a slight aside, some of the discussion here is ultimately what led me to purchase the TCB no. 2. The jeans are clearly polarizing in aesthetic as evidence by the contest thread here. They were most definitely not designed to generate 100 fit pic posts on Reddit. Rather, they exist because Inoue-san clearly loves the history of the denim and cared deeply about maklng those jeans for their own sake. Are they a pair that I would pick in a vacuum - no. However, I too appreciate the attention to detail and wanted to do my smallest part to ensure that the passion and craft can live on a little longer

Thankfully, the current Full Count inseams are all too short for me in my waist size so it’s not a huge loss for me personally. I think that @Alec Leamasis probably correct about WH. Warehouse seems to be following a very different business and marketing model than FC at the moment, and feels like they are trying to reposition themselves in the marketplace to an extent

Denime 232/Kirkland tee/Vintage Polo Andrew shirts/Rancourt mocs Bonus pic: RRL denim workshirt/Jungmaven tee/RRL indigo tooled belt/TCB Cats Drive/Alden 405