Some cool, distressed denim

[rufio]

just noticed the runoff stitch on the pocket...pre-war?? Very small size. This kid is featured in a few pictures from the last couple pages including one in the same post, can't tell much other than he is a total pimple-faced geek who was likely beat up a helluva lot

Heh, he's actually the guy whose photostream all the pics come from. If someone had a lot of time they could go through the entire lot and put together all the shots of his Levi's to see the evo.

[partytaco]

i get paid for this kind of thing...please pass the link and i'll spend the time

[rufio]

I think I posted it a few weeks back, but to save you looking: http://www.flickr.com/photos/selago/

[partytaco]

wow, a well traveled geek. Pretty fascinating thread. I'm about 50 pages in and I think he has been to 25 countries before he hit 16 and probably the entire US. Very envious....of the US travel, who cares about the rest.

Jeans are still a mystery. Found a video where the single needle is evident but you can make out an offset belt loop and paper patch. I will go through the additional 300 pages of photos tomorrow.

[rufio]

[meader]

Now that's what life is all 'bout! Power 'n' Blue jeans! Power in all areas of life! Strong body, strong threads! Mega Force! Food on the table! Bread 'n' Beans! Pork Chops!

[Shorty Long]

high noon...d-d-d-draw!!!

[pomata]

sorry if these have been posted before

[pomata]

[Paul T]

Those are William Claxton shots. RIP. He was a cool dude.

[pomata]

you know the full version of the first one (amazing!) is in your book, Paul. It shows a marvellous pair of levis with a mouthwatering 'traintracks' fade.

I didn't feel like scannering it and posting it here though...

[Paul T]

you know the full version of the first one (amazing!) is in your book, Paul. It shows a marvellous pair of levis with a mouthwatering 'traintracks' fade.

I didn't feel like scannering it and posting it here though...

Claxton was a wonderful guy - Graham Marsh, the deigner I did the book with (he's on the wayjdt thread) knows him from way back. We had to pay him for the shots, obviously, but he let us have them for press use for free, cos he's a denim fan. Or was. I wish I'd met him. And Steve McQueen, of course. I've been wearing that 501/Wrangler 27MW combination a lot over the last few weeks.

[zissou]

What's your book, Paul?

[fardin]

the last pic of steve sitting is by roy schatt, and its shott in roys backyard in the 50s. same place a lot of nice james dean pics happend, and maybe deans best new york pics were by roy anyway.

[pomata]

[jstavrin]

[meader]

I have vague feeling these first two pics have been posted before... Or maybe my mind is playing me cruel tricks? I am pissing myself of fear here, but I'm gon' post these anyway... Krezy ol' rugged blue jeans on tis kay. Lookie hier. Krezy rugged amazon princesses of bike wieldin art time war machinery in last pic check it out before internet die day.

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[fardin]

haha, you re right the pics have been posted befor. also the last. love those, the rest of that series has also been posted still they are great.

[meader]

Fakkin' sikk aktioneh 'n' boxe' plofiles! Wroom Burners of Alabam'! Rukked hues! Rukk'd' liven! Bless Internet! Bless Blue Jeans! Bless Cameras!

[meader]

haha, you re right the pics have been posted befor. also the last. love those, the rest of that series has also been posted still they are great.

Not all of them, seriously? I need some fresh air.

[fardin]

yes almost all of em. preaty hard to find new ones on the life site at the moment. but latly there have been a lot of reposts.

since i was a bmxer, the pics with the kids on the bike are the oldest pics of kids jumping and imitating motorcycles i have ever seen. way befor the stingray period. those are historical

[almostnice]

I salute Meader nevertheless!

[Dr_Heech]

I salute Meader nevertheless!

Meader

What Markus said. Plus repped as well. Keep it up!

.

[Paul T]

Not all of them, seriously? I need some fresh air.

I keep a pretty close eye on this thread, one or two looked familiar but it was great to see them all in sequence, especially those biker shots .

There's somethign about those women from the late 40s, a kind of sassy independence before consumerism took over in the 50s.

[Rivet Head]

The Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company of Mobile, AL was one of the United States largest shipyards. Employing nearly 19,000 people by 1943, they were an integral part of the war effort during WWII. Photographer George Strock did a nice photo essay for Life Magazine of the company and it's workers in 1941 (click on the pics for a larger view):

Repost by request of Fardin (originally posted on my blog www.rivet-head.blogspot.com)

[milosz]

Kodachrome gives me the boner.

[Rivet Head]

They ARE blue like Viagra...

[almostnice]

awesome,Rivet!first pic goes straight to your username.see that glowing in the bucket?thats a freshly heated rivet,ready to go into the ships sheets.thats the same way they builded ships here for over 150 years:rivets where blazed in a fire and thrown to the next riveter who caught them in such a bucket before he riveted the sheets together.

[Rivet Head]

Thanks! I'm really digging the wide leg khaki's in the third photo...anyone know a similar pair made now?

[fardin]

thanks for posting them rivet.

buzz rickson makes wide ones. check the mil mil page.

http://www.mil-mil.net/buzz/jeans/m43036/m43036.html the 42 model