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No, but we are still desperately trying to get into the same size jeans as when we were 20, so flab-roll pressure holds them perfectly in place.
I’ve still got a couple of pairs of 501’s from around then, and I can, just, get into them. So long as I don’t want to walk too far, sit down for too long, or do any bending...
As far as the patch is concerned, I always wear my belt over the patch, although the ones I wear most have nothing written on the patch anyway, it’s blank. Japanese selvedge, too.
And belts? Mostly they’re nylon webbing Eagle Creek travel belts, although I’ve got a couple of nice leather belts, one that I had made, with two large brass rings that the other end threads through and is held by a Sam Browne stud, the other I made myself with brass fittings from an older belt that was too short.
Oh, and I have a couple of Animal belts which are like seatbelt webbing, and the buckles are like aircraft seatbelt q/r buckles..
Snappy dresser, me.
No, but we are still desperately trying to get into the same size jeans as when we were 20
Well if I had any 46 year old jeans left, I would be able to get into them. Flab isn't a given as you get older.
quite right – the man is a style icon. I have a range of shirts and jumpers in pink, lavender, cerise, fuchsia etc * bet you peasants don’t even know what those colours are!
Of course I know what those colours are; colours I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing.
Plain tee shirts no logo, bands or “funny” slogans. Plain brightly coloured polos.
Only a shirt with collar if you are going to put a tie on ( bar the polo shirt)
Most of my tee shirts are from gigs or are bike related with logos on, and as for polo shirts, they go along with those colours above, I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing them either!
Do you also have your wallet on a chain clipped to the belt loops and a Korn patch on your rucksac?
As it happens, I have a lanyard of woven paracord to tether my wallet to a belt loop, because it’s a Pelican sport wallet which is made from the same hard plastic as their gun and travel cases, and rather slippery, it’s forever falling out of my pocket, and I’d rather not have to replace the contents, like my driver’s licence, debit card, etc.
I also have my phone attached to a lanyard, for the same reason - I don’t want to lose a £1500 phone either.
No band patches on my rucksack, and they will be hosting the Winter Olympics in Hades before I have anything to do with Korn!
many folk on here would do better if their mother dressed them
That, from someone who advocates dressing like an off-duty estate agent?
I stopped giving a shit about what people think about what I wear fifty-odd years ago.
Most people think I’m around twenty years younger than I am, which is better than dressing like someone twenty years older... 😜
colours I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing.
From previous "fashion" threads I seem to recall you go in for the Tramp/Walter Mitty/ '70's German terrorist* look don't you? So I think we can all safely ignore any advice about colours
*Army Surplus
Typical british men - afraid of bright colours. Its all khaki and grey and black!
Tsk tsk
I wore army surplus in my 20s once I grew up from wearing jeans
these days its all black dress trousers and brightly coloured t shirts / polo shirts
go on - ask your other halves - see what they think
BTW - in case you hadn't realised nothing I say about dress codes is meant at all seriously bar the ruddy awful dress sense of 99% of british men and the dull colours they wear and its fun to prod people who by their reaction really know I am right!
I mean - what a style icon!
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What is that on your head in the second photo? Looks like a Smurf hat 😀
Remember folks there is a world of difference between fashion and style.
Correct funky! Channelling my inner smurf
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52 and bought my first 510s. Previously rocking 511s but I have gone narrower. I’m a 30/32 leg. Same as I was 35 years ago. Boots rather than shoes.
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Typical british men – afraid of bright colours. Its all khaki and grey and black!
Not me. I represented our company at the FDA sporting a fine loud bird patterned Guide London dress shirt and tight Paul Smith suit. Not your typical US pharma white shirt and bad fitting suit.
because it’s a Pelican sport wallet which is made from the same hard plastic as their gun and travel cases, and rather slippery, it’s forever falling out of my pocket, and I’d rather not have to replace the contents, like my driver’s licence, debit card, etc
You could just get a normal wallet that does the one job its supposed to...
Looks like a Smurf hat
Haven't seen Smurf Hat since he flounced all those years ago.
fine loud bird patterned
No no no
Where is Flashy when we really need his specialist knowledge?
Where is Flashy
In a hollowed out volcano, stroking a cat*
*not a euphemism. An actual cat.
The correct answer is there is no patch, because real metrosexuals are vegan and don’t buy leather
The patch on 501’s is paper...
Many jeans have vinyl patches that looks like leather. And I thought real metrosexuals photosynthesise, like the delicate flowers they are...
You could just get a normal wallet that does the one job its supposed to…
It does one job very, very well, protecting the contents from damage like getting wet, or just being sat on all the time. It has a loop for attaching a lanyard to keep it safe, mainly from scumbag pickpockets, but my work trousers have stupid little pockets with a silly button flap that the buttons get ripped off of.
People lose leather wallets all the time, I’ve not lost one ever, and my Pelican stays in proper pockets, just not silly ones on Dickies work trousers and shorts.
They’re rubbish, but i don’t have to pay for them.
Selvedge is an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unravelling.
in 19c/early 20c novels its sometimes used as a metaphor to mean (in modern terms) the crappy bit of life that nobody really wants. Or in more literal terms, the cheaper cuts of fabric the the poor make their curtains and furnishings out of.
Never come across selvedge as a metaphor for a crappy bit of life that nobody wants, because, as your previous definition points out it’s the edge of a width of fabric designed to prevent it unraveling, which, if applied to life should indicate something of great worth.
Methinks your attempt to make a smartassed snarky comment about people paying over the odds for a quality product has just fallen flat on its ass.
The fact is that when denim became highly popular during the sixties into the seventies and on, manufacturers couldn’t keep up with demand on the narrow looms that selvedge denim had been traditionally woven on, and natural indigo dye too expensive, so the looms were sold off and wider looms producing chemical dyed cloth in wider batches took over. The prices didn’t drop, though.
The old looms were bought by the Japanese who carried on producing heavyweight denim dyed with natural indigo, in much smaller batches, from which fewer pairs can be produced.
As anyone who isn’t a complete idiot should know, any product manufactured in smaller quantities, using higher quality materials, is going to charge higher prices.
It’s the principle of supply and demand, innit.
Of course, a pair of jeans made from 20oz, natural indigo selvedge denim, and probably largely hand made, if looked after, will likely last ten or twenty years, my 501’s are forty years old.
A pair of 10 or 12oz mass-produced chemical-dyed denim might not last last two years, but still cost £80-90, if not more; I’ve seen pre-ripped jeans, made from thin denim costing £170!
A pair of £250 20oz selvedge jeans could easily last ten times as long, while costing only about a third as much more.
Here endeth the lesson. 😉
Selvedge jeans = Sam Vimes boots theory.
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