Word of Mouth - The Crust & Fades Contest

[Jared_Lee]

[vIGGiou riou]

great progress Jared...

[shredwin_206]

@Jared_Lee always coming in hot with the grail fades 

[beautiful_FrEaK]

We are currently on holiday in the Black Forest.

This is the weather forecast so I'm not going to wear jeans anytime soon 😅

[Broark]

9 minutes ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

This is the weather forecast so I'm not going to wear jeans anytime soon 😅

Psssh, those are rookie numbers. 

[beautiful_FrEaK]

1 hour ago, Broark said:

Psssh, those are rookie numbers. 

Doesn't make it any better for me 😅

[ATWM]

6 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

We are currently on holiday in the Black Forest.

This is the weather forecast so I'm not going to wear jeans anytime soon 😅

This is on my list of places to visit, lots of my family roots from here (like a million other Americans I guess). 

[reallypeacedoff]

First repair. The chainstitching of the crotch started to come apart. Had some spare denim scraps from some Imperials.

[julian-wolf]

^ What’s the patch for? Are you already on the way to a blowout??

[Thanks_M8]

14 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

We are currently on holiday in the Black Forest.

This is the weather forecast so I'm not going to wear jeans anytime soon 😅

Been in that area last weekend, funny enough. Good weather and plum season, you should check out the "zwetschgendatschi", local speciality in the Kinzigtal.

Where are you staying, if I may ask? Might be worth it stopping by in france. Should be a 40 minute drive max.

[beautiful_FrEaK]

2 minutes ago, Thanks_M8 said:

Been in that area last weekend, funny enough. Good weather and plum season, you should check out the "zwetschgendatschi", local speciality in the Kinzigtal.

Where are you staying, if I may ask? Might be worth it stopping by in france. Should be a 40 minute drive max.

We are in Zell. Strasbourg is an option we considered. 

We had the other famous local cake already 

[Thanks_M8]

Nice area, have a good stay! Have you checked out Gengenbach already? Shouldn't be far and also a nice old town.

They filmed areal view with the german kid from the 2000s "charlie and the chocolate factory" there

[Dr_Heech]

15 hours ago, Broark said:

Psssh, those are rookie numbers. 

Reckon l'd need one of those hydration suits from Dune before l could go out in the sun in Texas! I'm melting if 25 degrees C or hotter as it is  😅

[Maynard Friedman]

^^ Augustus Gloop!

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

On 8/14/2025 at 12:45 PM, Dr_Heech said:

Reckon l'd need one of those hydration suits from Dune before l could go out in the sun in Texas! I'm melting if 25 degrees C or hotter as it is  😅

Was kinda shocked to read in some thread or other here that you and double O wear shorts in like 17 c or above?

If I had to live like that I’d never get a chance to wear jeans. 
 

it’s been 36-37 with ~ 70% humidity for the past week here. All of my jeans have been hung for like a month now. But I hear Texas gets quite hot as well. 

[Dr_Heech]

21 minutes ago, Hopethisoneisnttaken said:

Was kinda shocked to read in some thread or other here that you and double O wear shorts in like 17 c or above?

If I had to live like that I’d never get a chance to wear jeans. 

 On your first point, my ideal (working outdoors) uk summer temperature l would say is between 12 and 20 degrees C. That's being active outside for 8 hours whilst in t-shirt and shorts. Anything over 25 degrees is now a struggle. Atm I'm sitting inside with a fan on in 29 degrees. Body temp seems to have had a major shift since getting into my 50's. Or is it global warming 🤔 😅

On your second point, my body often 'forgets' what it's like to wear jeans between April - October. So it is now August and starting to feel like l won't ever get to wear jeans again - it's like l'm losing my denim memory-map.

Can't wait for the cooler months here so l can don my texas tux!

[Double 0 Soul]

Slightly different story for me.. i still wear jeans everyday for work, difference is, in a pre-brexit, pre-cost of living crisis, pre-full cost proxy, pre-single income family world..  i would buy fancy denim just to wear in my workshop.. i was tearing through a pair of jeans every 12mths but they weren't an expensive commodity for me in those days.. 

Nowadays, for work, i just buy a pair of vintage Carhartt Carpenter pants for £35.. they last around the same amount of time as a £250 pair of fancy JP repros.. i also cycle commute so i don't wear jeans to and from work, my days off are spent either playing tennis or MTB'ing around the Peak District, again, not in jeans..  i 'm not wearing jeans as often through the hotter months so until our economy sorts it's shit out or until the colder months return i'll only be wearing fancy jp-repros for 9mths of the year.

[ATWM]

2 hours ago, Dr_Heech said:

  so l can don my texas tux!

I object to this nomenclature! (In good humor, but, seriously, Canadian Tux is better although simply denim tux is the best)  

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

2 hours ago, Dr_Heech said:

On your first point, my ideal (working outdoors) uk summer temperature l would say is between 12 and 20 degrees C. That's being active outside for 8 hours whilst in t-shirt and shorts. Anything over 25 degrees is now a struggle. Atm I'm sitting inside with a fan on in 29 degrees. Body temp seems to have had a major shift since getting into my 50's. Or is it global warming 🤔 😅

Well, for starters - I would surely freeze to death if I’ll wear t shirts and shorts in 12 degrees C. 😅

secondly - 29 degrees with a fan is rough. Cannot imagine dealing with that without AC, especially in your parts where surely houses are built to retain heat rather than to expel it. 

[Dr_Heech]

7 hours ago, ATWM said:

I object to this nomenclature! (In good humor, but, seriously, Canadian Tux is better although simply denim tux is the best)  

Feel free to object away!

I always prefer the expression Texas tux as l associate double denim with the cowboy culture mostly. I always associate anything Canadian clothing wise with something needing to be a little warmer to keep out the cold but that's just me 😁