Out in Left Field (1/1/2012-1/1/2013)

[kansas]

yeah pants.

[riff]

Still got 2 spots that haven't been claimed yet, Riff

Stop tempting me - i know what kind of trouble you get into

So - is what's showing on his website all the stock he has left?

[pepper davies]

This is the last message I received in terms of stock.

"Hey Andrew just a heads up one pair of 34's left, 1 pair of 28's, 30, and 32 is good no 36's in indigo, I have some seconds in 34 and other sizes if people choose that option it's a $70 discount and mostly just slub runs. This heavy canvas caused a lot of problems running on the old wooden shuttle looms so have some seconds listed under the $150 price range. Have a nice Christmas and thanks for your help. Christian"

If anyone is interested in joining the contest please send Robbie or me a message before purchasing the pants!

[grooveholmes]

Tempting indeed... I've been wearing my RT DBL Indigo trousers for the past 2 years... But I have a pair of the Raleigh Indigo Canvas jeans waiting in the wings. Too many good things, so little time.

[riff]

^this. But I'm still tempted....

[patchmb]

^ I am 34 in most Japanese jeans & some mf pants & have these in a 34. You should be ok , good luck

[ihatebrianwilliams]

yeah pants.

Great! Thanks for the help. Looking forward to your participation in here.

[pepper davies]

So the lineup is complete! Here is our 20!

Contestants:

1. ADH92

2. Arcarsenal

3. Eggplant

4. Fre$co

5. Happy Hooligan

6. IhateBrianWilliams

7. Joelz

8. Kansas

9. Lottiboi

10. Mapz

11. Mikeach

12. MisterH

13. Ninja07

14. nosecretsbetweensailors

15. patchmb

16. Riff

17. rnrswitch

18. robbie

19. Surly

20. xChen

[arcarsenal]

oh shit! riff succumbed to temptation. it's gonna be a hell of a year, guys.

[Happy Hooligan]

just realized the east coast guys get a 3 hour start on the west coast guys... lol

[S-Town]

I'm not part of the contest, but I'm really excited to see how these turn out over the next 12 months. Especially the indigo vs. black evos. Happy New Year!

[mikecch]

^^ I get a huge head-start compared to you Americans

Well, a little about myself...

My name is Michael (little surprise there), I'm from Australia.

I'm in my 20-something's, working as a junior medical practitioner in a hospital.

These Left Field indigo duck chinos will be my work pants for 2012, and the updates will feature Melbourne and it's regional areas - no exotic adventures for me this year.

Today the temperature reached almost 38 degrees Celsius where I live, and if you've ever experienced the Australian sunshine in Summer, you'd know it's absolutely burning in the sun's rays (we ain't got too much ozone around here); but no matter, I wore the duck chinos for the first time anyway:

What can I say, these chinos are wonderfully made!

Love the little details, it really is a solid pair of pants...

Reinforced at stress points:

Bonus pic:

The duck fabric isn't too heavy for me, although quite stiff at the moment, a little trying in the heat.

The chambray pocket fabric is light and comfortable.

I had to give these jeans a wash before wearing though, as indigo staining the hospital furniture is not an option

If the duck is anything like the Cone White Oak caramel duck on my Roy x Cone jeans, then it should crock and crease very well!

The evo on these should be amazing!

[xchen]

I'll be starting quite late - mine have been boxed up for shipping for the past few days but it looks like the shipping status hasn't been updated since then.

[robbie]

Happy New Years everybody!

Here is a quick shot of me in my 'base layer'. I too will be wearing my pants to work each and every day, only I have to wear khaki colored ducks over top because I work at Wal-mart. Yesterday was my birthday, so I am now 26. This contest will document my 26th year of life from start to finish here in the tiny Central Nebraska town of Elwood. Have a few trips planned and hopefully a meet up or two with folks in the central time zone (Kansas,Surly I'm lookin at you two).

Can't wait for everyone else's fits!

Also, welcome aboard to Riff. Really glad to have you involved!

[fre-co]

Happy new chinos day!

A bio.... It's like a dating website...

I am a 35 year old Scientist. I run a genetics research lab in London and live in a very small village in the Hertfordshire countryside. I will be wearing these chinos about 3 days-a-week I'm sure. I can't dedicate to every day, I have been wearing Japanese selvage denim for about 15 years and that will be a hard habit to break.

This is our village pub, dating to the 18th century I believe. It's a very nice pub indeed.

Here is my door

Our house is not very old, built in the 20s and this door is only 2 years old, part of the major refurbishment we did when we took on the house.

This my back garden, we need to do a lot of tidying here. The first job of the year will be to reclaim the vegetable patch from weeds. Later in the year I will rebuild a shed or two and extend the chicken run.

The chickens.

The chicken catcher.

WAYWT

A mornings work...

What the hell can I do with that last piece...?

[ranonranonarat]

your boy is way too cute..

[pepper davies]

Already such great fits! I think this is going to be such a great year! Here's my initial fit (again)

My name is Andrew. I'm in my senior year studying classical double bass performance at the Peabody Conservatory/Johns Hopkins. My life isn't really very exciting, but I get tattooed a lot, play a lot of music, and cook a lot of food. I recently purchased my first medium format camera in the last 5 years, and I'd like that to be what I used to take pictures with for this thread. Once I have it in my hands I'd like to make it an (almost) 365 project as well.

The LFNYC chinos will be on my legs every day this year. Looking forward apprehensively to sharing this year with everyone. I think we have a great group.

[misterh]

happy new year everyone.

I live in Toronto. I teach middle school, where I coach one of our basketball teams. Most of my time away from that is spent being a dad to this little guy, Jack.

he's 8 months old. I'll try to keep my posts centred on the pants, but I have a feeling he'll be creeping into a lot of my posts.

things I'm looking forward to this coming year include his first birthday in April. I'm still on the hunt for a pair of amazing jeans for him if anyone can be of any help that would be much appreciated. Also a trip to Jamaica in April as well, for my brothers wedding.

I also hope to make it back to Prince Edward Island, on the east coast of Canada, where my wife and I are originally from.

this is my first contest. excited to be a part of this.

[pepper davies]

Mate, I don't think anyone will mind cute pictures of Jack!

[Guest lottiboi]

Everybody is looking great so far! Pants shipped to the wrong place :/ hopefully will get them this week so you can learn a bit about me.

[fre-co]

Kids denim:

Warehouse do half selvage jeans for kids. At the moment they only have ones with patch pockets though. My boy had a pair in size 80 from 8 months to about 15 months which are now awaiting a sibling to use again.

We now have a pair of Samurai in size 100 that he will soon grow into.

You can see lots in the sprogs, nippers... thread

[rnrswitch]

I am in the process of returning my size 32s for 30s, so I don't have any fit pics yet. I assume my fit pics will look better than all of yours' though, so stay tuned...

[ThinFinn]

what an awesome thread...too bad i´ve missed!

andrew - really love your fit + the chambray and the mfrc´s

[P00pdick]

I missed it too. still going to buy a pair I think.

[arcarsenal]

feliz año nuevo everyone.

my name is justin, i'm 25 and i work in downtown chicago as a mobile user experience designer for a national chain of pharmacies. in a nutshell, i help design the interactions, look and feel and all around presentation of stuff on our mobile apps.

i lay my head at night in munster, indiana which is home to the three floyds brewpub and you can find me there after work some nights the week and maybe on weekends if the crowd isn't too insane. when i'm not designing things i tend to hit up the local breweries and pubs around indiana, michigan and the chicago land area. the homebrew setup is coming - who knows what 2012 will bring. as much as i like it in indiana, chicago keeps calling me back so i'm planning to move back this spring.

i might look like an asshole in my pics (it was the wind, i swear) but i promise you i am not. all i really want to do is talk about music, drink good beer and if you're a nerd like me, talk about technology and gadgets.

looking forward to this next year - and i really wish i could rock my red chambray untucked with these pants but the shirt is just too damn long! thanks again to robbie and andrew for organizing this.

edit: and here's really all i did today... still getting over a cold. since i wasn't really feeling well enough to party last night here is the first brew of the new year thanks to my new favorite brewery, greenbush. what better way to fight off a sickness, than by weakening your immune system a bit?

Edited January 1, 2012 by arcarsenal

[riff]

^ Sounds good to me Fits are excellent - stoked to get mine! Also, arcarsenal - the Mulholland looks great - glad we collectively twisted your arm!

[arcarsenal]

haha, thanks riff. i think it's fair - you get your arm twisted for some new chinos, i get mine twisted for a new jacket!

[dkatz]

Looking forward to being a fanboy of this thread...!

And if I talk myself into buying a pair, maybe throwing the odd non-contestant fit in - if it wont anger the locals

[surly]

My name is Zach, and I'm an alcoholic.

I live in Austin, and I work at a coffee shop (a corporation, not a cool one). I got the black chinos so I can rock them at work. I'll likely wear them on days I work, and spend the other two days of the week in my Okis. Once it warms up a little I'll be biking biking regularly in these. I hope they can handle it. I'm pretty sure it'll be just fine.

[kansas]

Greetings all, and happy new year-

I'm fred from kansas. i'm in my..ahem...later 30's, and a music teacher. i play trumpet in some jazz groups in kansas city, but i am basically a gun for hire. i've played in salsa, mariachi, polka and swing bands, as well as orchestra/chamber groups.

arcarsenal, you will have to tell me what chicago groups you are into. i really dig tortoise and sea and cake - also ken vandermark....

i've got a terrific wife, and daughter who's 6. they'll make it into a few posts i'm sure.

i'm gonna be wearing these blacks as my daily school wear - so i'll be "that teacher" that we all had who had one outfit they wore every damn day. i've got two samurai models that will be my mr. rogers "home pants". looking forward to being in my first contest.

corny newspaper shots

the fam. on christmas morning. i returned the hat

ringing in the new year.