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@swiss-jeansfreak @Dr_Heech Much appreciated fellas!

Went to put on my jeans (LVC 1944) for work last Monday and noticed that the crotch stitching had begun failing (that famed Levi's quality ) I slipped into my Canes instead and after work I went and raided my dad's work bench; among the boxes of nuts, bolts, screws, and nails, there was of course a box of odds and ends. After a bit of sifting I found a few copper rivets in all different sizes, the smallest looking like it would work to shore up my crotch. I used an awl to make the hole, pushed the post through, put the head on, and used a pair of pliers and a hammer to secure it in place (couldn't find a setter so I made do.) A pair of snips removed the excess post, and I hammered it flat.

AO, Sugar Cane x2, Padmore & Barnes

@indigoeagle I reached out to them via Instagram and this is the response I received, “We don’t offer mail order about slash overalls. The items will be sold by lottery to customers who visit the store.” Their handle is barnstormer_daily

@indigoeagle I ordered from them through Buyee just last week, they did move a little slower than other Japanese shops I've purchased from, it was about a day from when I made the order to when Buyee confirmed the purchase and then another 3 days to ship.

@yochrisahn you can check out my post in the denim jackets thread here, but if you poke around this thread enough you should find the info you're looking for

American Optical, Dee Cee, Sugar Cane, Clarks

Freewheelers, Columbia, Coronado Leather, LVC, Padmore & Barnes Last day cool enough to wear a jacket, as summer looks like it will rear its devilish head tomorrow. Saddest day of the year, every year.

Thanks guys, it is indeed handsome. @ATWM I owe you special thanks, your comparison to the cut of the sugar cane 1953 gave me confidence in buying despite the lack of measurements. You were spot on, the shoulders are sloped and the armholes are a bit small, it feels like its one size bigger than my SC, which is a 38. @Maynard Friedman As an american who has no interest in soccer, you're lucky that didn't go right over my head 🤣 If you mentioned the price to a, uh, "layman" they might believe you!

Got lucky a couple weeks ago and found this CR07. It was listed without measurements on mercari, but I couldn't pass it up; the first and only one I've seen in months of regular searching, and it's got almost no wear to boot.

American Optical, Vintage, Sugar Cane, Georgia Boot

American Optical, Frostproof, Jockey, Coronado Leather, Sugar Cane, Clarks

M41057 Picked these up on a bit of a whim, I’ve been interested in the vaunted M series for a few months, browsing Mercari and yahoo sporadically at work. I saw these the other week, still nice and dark, listed much cheaper than comparable pairs, so I pulled the trigger. I’ve put just one wear into them, but I think I’m understanding the hype.

Baracuta, Warehouse, 3sixteen, Chucks

Thank you! Wish my old lady would say the same, but it's usually just, "Jeans? Again?" 😭

American Optical, Sugar Cane, RRL, Coronado Leather, LVC, Padmore & Barnes

Thanks for the welcome @Double 0 Soul! I’m a couple years younger than most of you fellas, so traditional forums like this were once a bit foreign to me. After being on all the big social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, tumblr, twitter) heavily as youth, I ditched it all around the time I graduated high school. Reddit was really the only social media platform I interacted with and how I eventually found this place (from the cesspool that is the raw denim subreddit.) I think @beautiful_FrEaK or @shredwin_206 mentioned SuFu over there, I was delighted to find people who were not only much more knowledgeable, but could actually dress well posting here. It only took a couple of months of lurking for me to decide to bite the bullet and pay the initiation fee, you guys are such a wealth of information and entertainment that I feel the 10 bucks is truly worth it (though it’s cost me just a bit more than that in jeans!) As for how I got into denim, I’ve always enjoyed clothes. I got my first pair of raw jeans in high school during the APC/size down craze, a pair of 511s that never really fit me how I wanted (I couldn’t size down, I actually used to size up to fit my calves and quads.) I tried a couple other slim-fit budget pairs over the years (Uniqlo, Naked and Famous) but I couldn’t get the fit right. Eventually as the slim-fit started to fall out of fashion, I realized that higher rises fit me better. I started wearing old 501s almost exclusively, and after a couple of years I got bored of basically being restricted to mid and light wash jeans. I decided it was time for a pair of raw denim and headed into the city, after Self Edge had nothing that fit me in my price range they recommended I go over to 3sixteen, where the classic straight fit was perfect for me. They were my only jeans for a good while, getting worn to the office occasionally and on weekends, but eventually my will power gave out. I recently caved and have acquired a few pairs of 40s repros 😂

Getting buzzed... American Optical, 3sixteen, Vintage Shirt, LVC, Stepney Workers Club

American Optical, Freewheelers, Dickies (vintage), Coronado Leather, LVC, Clark's, watery cup of cafeteria coffee

Are these the right pair?

American Optical, Iron Heart, Coronado Leather, LVC, Padmore & Barnes

@PrettyBoyTony not the 66’s but, I just shrunk up a pair of 44s I picked up around the new year. After a hot wash and dry I can confirm the waist shrunk up a good amount, the inseam as well to about 80cm, and the rise only came down about 2cm. And I could already feel the waist stretching back out within the 10 minutes I had them on out of the drier.

The rest of the photos of the young lady in the WW2 jeans rolling a cigarette: And on stage wearing a type 2 style jacket:

American Optical, Big Mac, Freewheelers, Coronado Leather, 3sixteen, Clark's

It's from a photo set taken at the University of Arizona rodeo in 1947. Here's a shot of her, with her very dubiously shaped cigarette.