Leepro Appreciation

[nemoulette]

Reposting these. My brother (pictured) has been wearing my worn to fuck Warehouse 1920s Lee repros. Got them 3,5 years ago now, worn daily for maybe 1,5 years.

[fardin]

nice to see apost from you again. those are some of the finest lee repros there are. wish warehouse would make em again. just a piece of beauty

[Dr_Heech]

A quick outdoor lighting comparisom of my 1960 and early 1950's Lee 101LJ's

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[crownzip]

Dr., Beautiful 101LJ's! The 50's 101LJ is quite rare to find in good condition and yours looks to be in amazing shape. Congrats and thanks for posting. It's always cool to see original Lee denim.

[Dr_Heech]

Dr., Beautiful 101LJ's! The 50's 101LJ is quite rare to find in good condition and yours looks to be in amazing shape. Congrats and thanks for posting. It's always cool to see original Lee denim.

Thanks - yeah, took 8 years of trawling to finally bag one of these, SO happy with it. Along with my Goodwear, this would be the first thing I'd grab if this place was to go up in smoke!

There are some more pix here - http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showthread.php?t=184760

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[CrashTestBrummie]

Evis Lot 2101 Leepros, with a little decorating mess on them:

[daynym]

today my rmc 101z arrived :-) some fit pics:

Will soak these the next hour. What do you think about the fit?

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Fit is great! The fit won't change much with the soak I guess. The loss in the length should be good.

How do you feel about the backpocket placement? The omnipresent "problem" with Lee cuts

I think it's fine. At least it don't make your ass look bigger

[daynym]

thx mate. I like the fit, too. Don´t mind the wide stance of the backpockets. As you already have mentioned, since my ass doesn´t look much bigger, everything is fine...

[fardin]

fit is perfect. beautiful pants.

[Chicken]

like. (thumb up)

[jstavrin]

Man, I don't think I could ever pull off Lees. My ass is huge.

[CrashTestBrummie]

Man, I don't think I could ever pull off Lees. My ass is huge.

You could always try one of the new Vivienne Westwood/Lee collaboration jeans...

http://www.triads.co.uk/triads-ii-c2/denim-c195/vivienne-westwood-x-lee-jeans-collaboration-banana-jeans-p54438

Apologies to all who view!

[entertainment!]

You could always try one of the new Vivienne Westwood/Lee collaboration jeans...

http://www.triads.co.uk/triads-ii-c2/denim-c195/vivienne-westwood-x-lee-jeans-collaboration-banana-jeans-p54438

Apologies to all who view!

Wow, that is quite a lengthy rise.

[dr.house]

@ Felix: Great fit, even if I personally don't like the typical backpocket position (on the other hand it's cool if you give a dam about it, more than this we're talking about Lee's).

I wear my SDA Indy pretty hard the last time (and in rotation with my LVC 55). It's dam cool how difficult the LHT fades compared to regular RHT. Every denimnerd should get at least one pair of Leepros or Lee-inspired leftys to see the difference. Pretty fascinating.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

the wide spacing of the lee back pockets makes having a huge wallet so much more comfortable

[babydials]

Daynym - This cements the 101z Taxi Driver as my favorite cut, perfect!

[SLAB]

Real Mccoys is releasing a Lee 'boss of the road' repro (with suspender buttons) for this winter

[fardin]

thanks slab

nice , but i wonder why this boss of the road lee model? lee archives has a similar one from last year, but a cant bust em 77 version,with cant bust em buttons, wich looks nice imho

here is the link

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/furutaka/03286-89/

i wish they would put out some more obscure models. like the limited edition cant bust em frsico jeens with a cinch, or some earlier boss of the road models.

[SLAB]

i wish they would put out some more obscure models. like the limited edition cant bust em frsico jeens with a cinch, or some earlier boss of the road models.

100% agree

[BrownMetallic]

not exactly a Leepro [by mean standard], but ....

@1.5mos effective wear:

[davety]

just got an japan archives 1936 101b arrive in the mail, it's apparently a sample from edwin, so there were no real tags attached besides the basic care warning tags- all in japanese, so i don't understand a word anyway. no quite a full package, but they only set me back 100 bucks brand new, so i won't complain

i'll post pics tomorrow, too damn tired right now, but i just want to get a straw poll from those with experience with the edwin-mades- soak or not? they're apparently sanforised, but they're still pretty damn big- this is a size 28 and it's roughly the size of my LVC 1937 in size 32, with the inseam sitting at around 38 inches. any advice?

[lostinthesupermarket]

I soaked....then soaked again after 2 months. The first time I got an inch of shrinkage in the leg, the second time I got another inch in the leg and some shrinkage in the waist.

However you are not going to see the same type of shrinkage as you would with straightforward raw denim....

[davety]

yeah, i assumed there wouldn't be a huge amount of shrinkage if i did soak, but those long-arse inseams did make me wonder...

[lostinthesupermarket]

Mine were 36 raw with a tagged inseam of 34....the inseam is now 34 as tagged. These are the 1930 101b which seem to use a different denim than the other models, judging by it's colour.....

The upshot is I don't really know what to tell you.....

Personally I would soak to get the sizing out and see what happens.

[davety]

ah, i'll just soak 'em anyway and see what happens. thanks for the help!

[sixsixtie]

My Sams like 9 monthish wear 6 months straight then rotation

[lostinthesupermarket]

Nice sams. The denim on those looks really interesting. It almost has a cross-hatched appearance.

Those back pockeys seem a lot smaller than most Leepros. I wonder if that is to offset the traditional Lee wide-spacing between them?

[BrownMetallic]

^ delish! one day .......

[farmer]

LHT(s) got another wash. Almost dry. Need proper drying line.