As much as it breaks my heart to say, Breanna has left and it remains to be seen whether or not she comes back.
I hope that she does. Please, if you can, hope for me, too.
That being said, this blog will be on an indefinite hiatus.
I will be continuing my own progress on The Weft Coast.
Goodbye for now.
Coulda sworn I posted this twenty minutes ago, but it posted the Railcar updates with the 3sixteen tags instead.
Whatevs.
Anyway, figured three months is a reasonable amount of time before they needed to be washed. I’m not the type to go years without washing. That just doesn’t seem right.
Pre:
Post (after a couple of days):
Jeans were washed with cold water on a delicate cycle then hung to dry. The denim came out crunchier than they were when they were new and stretched back out within a couple days. They’re still too tight, though, but April 1st is fast approaching so these will be retired.
After we went to Inspiration, we headed over to American Rag because they were having a sale.
In fact, we went two days in a row (and didn’t mind the 1.5 hour drive).
Day 1 (including stuff from Inspiration):
Breanna snatched the following:
Vintage swim trunks at Inspiration
LVC wool sweater
Levi’s Made and Crafted shirt
LVC belt
LVC selvedge shorts
Made and Crafted pants
I picked up :
2x Raleigh Nash (one rinse, one raw)
Rogue Territory chambray work pants (which are amazing)
Harley Davidson Book of Fashions signed by Mr. Rin Tanaka himself
Cabbie hat handmade out of 1950s fabric
We also ran into Steven and the gang from Railcar so naturally we had to get some tees to rep them.
Day 2:
Breanna ended up getting more of those Made and Crafted jeans since the first pair didn’t fit her. She also picked up a pre-distressed pair “to run errands in”.
We traded some old clothes at Buffalo Exchange down the street. The vintage Thunder tee, Crooks and Castles heavy wool sweat pants, and the Vintage Shoe Co. boots were all had for great prices.
I ended up with another pair of Raleigh Nash (they were 90% off…but don’t fit), three pairs of Dockers D-1 chinos (one pair is selvedge), and a pair of 1920s LVC chinos (for $20!) because Breanna loves them so much. One of these days there will be a post on them.
Also, we ran to Mister Freedom after Buffalo so I could grab another denim bag. We ended up running into none other than Mr. Cory Piehowicz, the man behind one of my favorite blogs. Check him out at Bandit Photographer.
Michael Harris (author of “Jeans of the Old West” and his wife were also there but were busy in conversation.
***This may or may not be the last update on her project. It remains to be seen whether or not we will continue this blog together. Hope for the best…***
Levi’s red cord trucker jacket
LVC tee
1966 501s
Vintage Harley engineer boots
Lamy fountain pen from B for Christmas
My birthday (not the day of the trip).
B found this pullover at an American Vintage in Fullerton. She had been looking for an LVC Sunset Chambray for quite a while but the $120+ was ridiculous. instead, she settled on this orange tag pull-over with a snap placket. We are both more than pleased with it.
After the Mister Freedom trip last Saturday we went to a Goodwill in Glendora and I stumbled upon these orange tag 505s tagged 36×30. They feel more like 34×32. Considering the condition they were in I gladly gave up a hard-earned $6 for them.
When we went to visit B’s family in Utah for Thanksgiving, we went on a Deseret Industry marathon on one of the days off we had. Deseret Industries are like the Utah version of Goodwill. I ended up with this Levi’s jacket that turned out to be a sample or display piece from like 1998 I think.
Whether or not these are worth anything, it is always the thrill of the chase in addition to the joy of the journey that keeps B and I hunting.
I lost track of the number of days these have been worn.
It’s pretty difficult to capture the color correctly, but in person they look very dark – almost – black – and have electric blue fades coming through. If they weren’t so tight in the crotch region they’d get much more wear.
After the previously mentioned Mister Freedom birthday trip, B and I headed to American Vintage. She walked out with three house dresses, two vintage half-sleeve sweaters, and some cloth calendar from 1973.
I found this gem:
The black Lee tag, with both the copyright logo and the M.R., indicates that this was made after 1970, and the fact that the Storm Rider tag says Made in U.S.A. in addition to the classic Union Made tag behind the size tag also tells that this jacket is not a current make.
Fun fact: Lee is one of the only companies that regularly uses Left Hand Twill denim, which is said to be softer after washing than Right Hand Twill. To easily tell which direction the twill goes, just look at the black Lee tag picture. The fabric twill lines point up to the left.
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On B’s birthday we took a trip to Idyllwild. After walking through the town we ended up at a shop where I saw this bad boy.
The pin is from a company called Iron & Resin – it was from a chambray bandana B bought me for Christmas.
Fun fact: Wrangler’s denim uses what’s called Broken Twill denim. You can see it in the picture directly above. See the squiqqly lines on the weft? Wrangler developed this because cowboys were growing frustrated with their jeans twisting down their legs. If you’ve ever owned a pair of shrink-to-fit Levi’s 501s, you have probably experienced your jeans twisting. This is because Levi’s uses Right Hand Twill. When the fabric is first soaked, it shrinks to the right. It isn’t necessarily a flaw in the fabric, it’s just how the fabric behaves. Wrangler developed Broken Twill in order to combat this twisting.
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