Posts made by nurunuru

@hgering27  Cheers!  Just had its second machine wash last month.  No soaks.

Looks incredible!

1 1/2 years on the top vs 3 (plus a little change) on the bottom.

I'm an out-and-out shorts guy in summer, but I recently got round to washing some denim and thought these were looking particularly pleasing to the eye.  The OD OG just fades so nicely.

@ddtrash  Copy that.  Thanks!

@neph93  Excellent.

@ddtrash  @SilverKast  @Guzzidriver  @blokewhistler  @luxman  @John Galt

Say…  Anyone got a field report of how this jacket stood up to a pretty good drenching?  I've been looking forwards to that new olive moleskin Type III since December, but now that it's nearly here I'm finding myself potentially swinging more towards this M-65 owing to its practicality for shoulder seasons in the Midwest.

Just wondering how practical it actually is in the rain.  Hoping someone can chime in!

Can't be long now…

@RoxRocks86  Rockin'.  Love how the OG OD fades.  It may be a tortoise, but it wins the race.

Sparky says I am super late to this party, but sure, I'll play!  Heading home after a(n unusually/) pleasantly uneventful 24 hours.

Cheers @RoxRocks86 & @jerkules !

Yeah, I love me some pins. Miiight be picking up that new olive moleskine Type III when it drops, so that'd be some more pin real estate to get working on

3 years; 1 wash 

But…  It's not an invitational.  意味わからん。

That brown colourway is fantastic. Like a comfy old wearable couch. I mean… In a good way.

Blues a-poppin'. I don't even know how you're supposed to accurately capture OD colours in a photo, but it doesn't stop me tryin' every now and then ^_^

(Taken last month, back when it was relaxing-on-a-bench-in-a-Type-III kinda weather.)

1.  Defo the olive moleskin Type III.  All day long.
2 & 3.  Probably the 634S-21ib and wabash work jackets.  Pretty cool.

I'm getting major Balmoral vibes from the IHV-43-OLV.  Maybe there's more pheasants on the streets of Tokyo now than back in my day.

My. Word.  This is flippin' goy-jus.

@Oaktavia:

Thanks for sharing that information. "Slub" would have been my first guess. Such a cool looking patch…

Pleasure!  Yeah, it's a cool one.  I'd sooner it wasn't stitched on the sides, but as I understand it Haraki-san has a desperately strict 18.5oz dividing line policy to determine whether a belt is allowed to pass between leather and denim.  I don't understand it, but there it is.  Could always just cut away a few stitches I guess.  And hey…  At least he made some slub, right?!  ^_^

@Oaktavia:

Those fade photos are super cool…really wish I could have afforded the Pronto collab at the time of it's release. The patch on these has piqued my interest.

@Giles what does the Japanese translate to in English on the patch?

I'm not Giles, but happy to chime in with a translation.  It's just "slub" written in katakana script.  ス=su ラ=ra ブ= bu.

Edit: Katakana is the script usually used for writing foreign loan words.  Unlike hiragana which is the script usually used for writing words of a native origin.  And unlike kanji, which is the script usually used for driving students of Japanese insane over the course of countless hours.

@mclaincausey:

@Giles:

Sizing varies between geographies because peoples size and shape varies between geographies. In The Netherlands, the average male height is a tad over 6 feet and weight is 194lbs, in the USA 5' 8" and 200lbs, and in Japan 5' 6" and 155lbs

Body Mass Index (BMI)
Japan: 25.0
Netherlands: 25.6
USA: 30.4

We win again, losers! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!

Somewhat tangential, but I remember back when I lived in Japan I had to do an annual health check through my employer.  The doctor gave me a summary at the end and said everything was just fine apart from my being overweight.  I'm 5'10" and back then had a 30" waist.  No idea what I weighed, but couldn't have been more than 165 lbs I'm guessin'.

I did not take him seriously.