TCB: happy jeans contest

[Max Power]

This thread is awesome (too bad I don't check in regularly). Sweden and Japan are awesome. I want a vacation now.

[volvo240thebest]

This thread lacks activity!

Here's a few TCB themed pics of the last few days!

Updated fit pic

Macro selvedge id detail

Macro denim texture

TCB 50's jacket + TCB 60's jeans

[Sugar Mountain]

Nice one Volvo. You do a good job at keeping this thread rolling along.

 

It's been Chinese New Year this long weekend in Hong Kong, so "Kung Hei Fat Choi" and "San Nin Fai Lok" to my Canto-speaking bros! For the most part, there's not much going on other than seeing family and eating and I didn't want to be snapping away at the table with my in-laws. For the remainder of the weekend though we had some time to just relax and do our own thing.

 

Here's what I wore: TCBs, Strike Gold sweater and Lofgren sneakers...

 

 

Here's what I ate on Saturday night at a restaurant serving Okinawa cuisine in Causeway Bay...

 

An appetiser plate including snail. First time for me and was pretty tasty.

 

The sashimi platter with oysters. Quality was excellent and the texture of the fish was really impressive.

 

Suntory highball. Kampai!

 

 

Have a great week everyone.

 

 

[oomslokop]

im tryin to stop buying blue things, but the contrast between the honey soles and the navy upper on those lofgrens is so shibui. best colourway out of the three. 

[bradl]

Came to say same thing. I really don't like any of the other ones, but those blue ones SM are great.

[goodrain]

@ Sugar Mountain how did you size on that Strike Gold sweater?

[volvo240thebest]

nice update SM! happy new year my friend!

I love those Lofgren pumps too, seriously tempted by the camo ones.

must do my part in the future of this thread re food porn. I always feel weird at taking pics at food...

[Sugar Mountain]

Thanks guys. 

 

Volvo - I hate taking photos of food most of the time but in HK people are always doing it and it's very normal. Recently I heard the phrase ''the camera eats first''! That said, I'd love to know what you cook up in your beautiful looking kitchen!

 

Goodrain - I take a medium in my SG sweat. It's a couple of years old though and I'm not sure if sizing has been consistent over the different production runs. The cut and the fabric are both spot-on in my opinion.

[aho]

^I'm guilty as charged (food pictures) LOL

[volvo240thebest]

here's an interview to Inoue San on denimhunters:

https://www.denimhunters.com/2015/02/meet-the-artisans-hajime-inoue-of-tcb-jeans/

[Blue Nemo]

"taking care of business" - good one

 

and some phrase in some good song too...

Edited February 23, 2015 by Blue Nemo

[volvo240thebest]

The TCB Band was Elvis Presley Band I think the inspiration comes from there!

[Bobbo]

It's nice to see Inoue-san getting more publicity, even more so since we're all playing a part of the PR, haha. 

On another note I had planned to share pictures from a First Aid Kit gig and all the great beers I had this past weekend. However, the beer got the better of me and no photos were taken.

Gig was great though, especially when they surprisingly did a cover on Seven Nation Army. Way off from their own stuff. 

[Bobbo]

Not much denim-related to showcase, but I figured a couple of pictures can't hurt eh?

 

 

Have anyone else picked up a copy of Viktors book? I noticed they went over to Inspiration and brought along a big chunk of his vintage collection. Would be great to see it in person sometime.

 

Here's a shot on Zombiecide that I mentioned a few pages back. Literally everyone got hooked the first time we played it and bought it themselves. So me and my flatmate kills zombies on a weekly basis nowadays.

 

 

And lastly the obligatory beer shot. Since the sales of alcohol in Sweden is only done by a governmentally owned company there only pops up a few new interesting beers once a month. A few days ago I got this IIPA from Culebra. Not too impressed. Backwoods Bastard, a butterscotch ale was much more pleasing.

 

[volvo240thebest]

Not much denim-related to showcase, but I figured a couple of pictures can't hurt eh?

 

 

Have anyone else picked up a copy of Viktors book? I noticed they went over to Inspiration and brought along a big chunk of his vintage collection. Would be great to see it in person sometime.

 

what a fine sight! la caffettiera napoletana! I am intrigued by that book, is it any good? the photo samples I've seen are very interesting. Should I get it?? ahah!

[volvo240thebest]

Some exquisite samples of TCB 50's badass-erism via IInoue san's blog

 

 

speaking of the happyjeans blog, I have to say that I sorely miss this guy, the former TCB model, aka the dude with the grimace!

legend!

[tigerstrom]

I think the book is amazing! Everybody should have a copy! Love this thread btw! I regret I didn't join the competition.

[Maynard Friedman]

Nice raffia doily too Bobbo!

[aho]

volvo, the True Fit book is really good! 

 

Re: the infamous TCB grimace guy, he's still doing his thing, check out FindersKeepers! 

http://finderskeepers.ocnk.net

[aho]

Poor picture but glad to keep this thread going:

[garden gnomes in space]

 first and last time Ill comment on another mans pucker, but that puckering is superb. 

 

edit** good light too.  

Edited February 25, 2015 by garden gnomes in space

[Projectp]

^^ That patch is still going strong too. Mine is pretty far gone at this point.

[aho]

^Great looking patch...I haven't had any issues with mine and I just throw my jeans in the wash and dryer. Also glad to see more and more progress on everyone's pairs!

[Projectp]

I treated mine once with some Obenauf's after the initial hot wash, which, in past experiences,has really helped maintain a patch's integrity. This time around I had a completely different result. I realize different leathers and embossing procedures come into play here, but I was shocked at how illegible every became after that initial treatment.

Edited February 25, 2015 by Projectp

[Projectp]

I've slacked on posting my pair's progress, so here are some shots taken over the weekend. The lighting wasn't the best because of the snow storm we got, but the color isn't too far off....maybe a bit washed out in that last one.

Edited February 26, 2015 by Projectp

[garden gnomes in space]

dang I need to step up my game 

(swear ive said this before...)

[beautiful_FrEaK]

nice ones gents!

 

did we see aho's fitpics yet?!

[Sugar Mountain]

No we did not. He's clearly the shy and retiring type!

[aho]

hahaha sorry guys, really been slacking on that front...might have to settle for a mirror pic just to get something on here! Traveling to San Francisco this weekend so I'll see what I can work with, as well as some more travel pics...

[Sugar Mountain]

The trick is to rope your better half into taking the pictures for you. My wife cannot understand why I would want photos of how my jeans look to share on a global forum but she's reasonably obliging at least!