Ooe Yofukuten x S&S: Official Contest Thread 2016

[corporalclegg]

Looking good everyone. Recently had to repair the stitching on the crotch and back yoke. Back pockets are basically destroyed but will wait to fix until after the contest. Also desperately in need of another wash, probably about the 6th or 7th. 

 

 

[Maynard Friedman]

Choo choo! Possibly the best train tracks I've seen FM.

[mrsmiff]

I love the way this LHT is evolving on all your pairs. Makes me want to run another LHT in the near future.

[corporalclegg]

It's crazy how everyone's pairs have such bold train tracks

[pudaspriest]

Yup, these jeans just get epic train tracks for some reason 

[FeloniousMonk]

That vertical falling giveth (tracks), and it taketh away (combs)

^^ Thanks, Maynard! High praise coming from you

[aho]

About a month and a half to go?! 

I'd say any and all Ooe jeans will develop train tracks due to the perfect amount of fold they give along the selvedge, coupled with the amount of shrinkage their fabrics tend to get, even on this LHT that hasn't shrunk as much as say the OAXX. Chainstitch roping is also a safe bet

[Broark]

Yup, my OA02XX's have pretty crazy train tracks as well as my contest pair.
You can see my jeans in the back left of the 4th picture in this Instagram post.

 

[aho]

So lazy have I gotten at posting, that I recently considered posting my final contest pictures as an Instagram link....Good to know you can scroll through photos within a sufu post! lol

[JohnM]

On 5/27/2017 at 5:42 PM, aho said:

Love the look of this pair.  Everyone's, in fact, look great.  Mine are less far along so I've hesitated to post pics.  That said, the look of this denim after months of wearing and washing is nicer and more interesting than anything I've owned or seen before.  Ooe has the magic, no doubt -- in fit also.

John

 

[pudaspriest]

End date coming up quick, my patch unfortunately decided it has had enough!

[aho]

Insane patch! Interesting how different leather will turn out based on the wearer and conditions. Here's mine as of yesterday (another IG post), which has taken on the shape/fading of the waistband crinkles underneath it, perhaps accelerated by wearing a belt:

 

[corporalclegg]

My patch has survived surprisingly well

 

 

[Broark]

A few teaser pics of my pair, washed again about a week ago. 

[FeloniousMonk]

Great seeing everyone back on the thread! Now I need to participate some more too. Also, checking on the remaining time - Isn't the end date September 30, since it's 18 months from April 1, 2016? I think we have two months for further destruction...

[aho]

Went to the beach today...(more of a watch picture but what can you do...)

Edited August 6, 2017 by aho

[pudaspriest]

[tooth]

13 hours ago, pudaspriest said:

Love that shirt... Jeans aren't so bad either.

[aho]

 

[tigerstrom]

 

[pudaspriest]

Do we have a definitive end date? 

[aho]

Will have to confirm with Standard and Strange, but I'm under the assumption we're running till the end of September/September 30th. Started April 2016, 18 months later brings us to October 2017. That said, I'll still be wearing mine until my TCB's come in! Down to the final stretch people! Put in that work and maybe we'll have a chance against pudas collectively....

Edited August 29, 2017 by aho

[Ciabatta]

I'm just here for more pics of Aho's pair 

[aho]

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Entering the final stretch, and I wanted to indulge in one more photo update like the early days of the contest. We just got back from Italy for a friend's wedding, so the Ooes got a lot of wear in 90 degree heat, climbing a LOT of steps since every gorgeous little seaside town seemed to be built up the cliffs rather than across. Every restaurant, bar, and beach was inevitably a bit less than a kilometer away, yet 300 meters up or down. Was feeling pretty sore by the end of the week in seaside towns.

As would be expected, the food was amazing. Though most of it was not very photogenic... Good pasta often still kind of looks like a dog's dinner, especially under the warm lighting of your typical trattoria. But the landscape was impossibly good looking along the coast. Terraces of olive, citrus, and squash starting 400-500m up, cascading down to the sea with only occasional small towns and large sheer cliffs of volcanic rock breaking up the waves of greenery. It has been seriously dry there, so we saw a number of large forest fires raging around the peaks at night. All the ash contributed to the hazy appearance of distant hills in the photos, but probably made the sunsets even better too. Already hoping to go back someday.

The one shot including my jeans from the entire trip happened when talking a walk on the beach right after we got into Sperlonga (a small seaside town mostly serving as a resort for heatsick Romans, based around a medieval hill town)

A couple random other shots from Rome, the Amalfi coast (Ravello and Praiano), and Sperlonga itself...

[Sugar Mountain]

Beautiful photos!

[FeloniousMonk]

A couple shots from Sperlonga, the small and ancient town where Tiberius used to have his holiday villa on the beach. Then some emperor got to see Capri, and basically said "sod this seaside town" and moved the summer home.

Most of the old city is built on a hill and still dates back to the middle ages. All the apartments and shops are just heaped on top of one another for several stories, and the streets are mostly maze-like narrow staircases criss-crossing the hillside, given a feeling of MC-Escher-as-city-planner.

And because no post here is complete without the food photo, here is the best thing we ate in Italy. A reordering of the classic prosciutto and melon, with sheep cheese and salad. It was pretty astonishingly good.

[Bobbo]

Looks amazing mate, thanks for sharing.

[Broark]

Little update, in need of another wash.

[mlyngard]

On 9/4/2017 at 11:06 PM, FeloniousMonk said:

 

 

 

 

 

These photos are magical, my friend. Definitely looks like a memorable trip.