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    HWDC Event 1 - Gosport Chain Stitch Massacre

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    • swiss-jeansfreakS
      swiss-jeansfreak
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      Beatlemania at it's best:

      The flasher on my pants just before first fit test

      Change from my 550 day worn in Strike Gold 23 oz to the new Mega 25 ozers

      And yeah no problem for me to double cuff them!!!

      Our youngest breaveheart Minitron:

      Junior (from Rivet and Hide) and Jean Luc showing up with their great Steal Feather denim evolution!!

      Great talks after dinner:

      Really roughest vintage or raw denim rags deserves to survive for ever! So never throw away any raw denim rags - Use them as long as possible and when it comes to their end - there is a safe place where your favorite items can rest in peace for ever in the Jeansmseum ruedi.karrer@jeansmuseum.org

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        Getting all warm and fuzzy over here. Happy Easter everyone :0

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        • swiss-jeansfreakS
          swiss-jeansfreak
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          Thanks , yeah it was real fun:

          Easter Sunday was such a beautiful morning, so I decided to go for a one hour jogging with my old underwear jeans, denim jacket and sandals and my little camera:

          After breakfast we went with Paulas and Giles Easter egg on to the beach to smash it with rocks:

          The time was just flying away and I had to leave this raw denim paradise behind me But I'll come back!!!

          Thanks G for your unbelievable gift for the Jeansmuseum. We have now a proper background for taking all the denim inventory pics.

          And thanks again to all those great people who worked so hard on this project!!!

          A special thanks to IH member Licorice Noose, who's well loved raw denim project is hanging in G's office. Obviously he really nows, how to break in some heavy weight raw denim stuff the hard way

          It took me ages and I had to check them out for 3 times to burn all those millions of fantastic fading results for ever in to my brain.

          I can just say congrats to this highest level of authentic fadings transforming them in to a Holy Grail Status.

          Sorry for spoiling this thread, but I have to bring them back:

          More pics under:

          https://picasaweb.google.com/116118427799433045500/20130330IronHeartChainStitchMassacreGosport?authkey=Gv1sRgCNeR363S96fYjAE

          Really roughest vintage or raw denim rags deserves to survive for ever! So never throw away any raw denim rags - Use them as long as possible and when it comes to their end - there is a safe place where your favorite items can rest in peace for ever in the Jeansmseum ruedi.karrer@jeansmuseum.org

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          • Down under guyD
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            Mean as pic's, thanks for sharing guys. You got the dodgey deliverys, the hunt, the finding, the MBB's, the hemming, the Hui (gathering), old friends/new friends, food and a few beers, brekkie, the massive egg. What a few days.

            Epic stuff

            Have a safe 2021 IH Peeps.

            Peace

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              Thanks for such great photos Ruedi. The event would not have been the same without you and your sunny sense of fun and mischief.
              I hope you got home ok. By the way that photo is of Junior and Jean-Luc.  I'm much younger  better looking !! 🙂

              Danny
              www.rivetandhide.com

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              • swiss-jeansfreakS
                swiss-jeansfreak
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                Sorry Danny for messing up with names. Just corrected it.

                Was great to see you there and it's a pitty that the time has gone so fast.

                Perhaps I see you some time in Zurich

                @Danny:

                Thanks for such great photos Ruedi. The event would not have been the same without you and your sunny sense of fun and mischief.
                I hope you got home ok. By the way that photo is of Junior and Jean-Luc.  I'm much younger  better looking !! 🙂

                Really roughest vintage or raw denim rags deserves to survive for ever! So never throw away any raw denim rags - Use them as long as possible and when it comes to their end - there is a safe place where your favorite items can rest in peace for ever in the Jeansmseum ruedi.karrer@jeansmuseum.org

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                • Finn666F
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                  brilliant post there Ruedi…thanks for sharing mate!

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                  • SimonS
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                    Great photos Ruedi, it was good to see you again.

                    Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities - Frank Lloyd Wright

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                    • Madame ButtonflyM
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                      Huge thanks to everyone who joined us on Saturday - and especially Junior and Simon, the chief chain stitchers!

                      Was really great to see lots of old friends and meet some new ones.  Thanks to the Trons for all their organisation, help, hard work and lovely company (and to Tommy for spending most of his 7th birthday travelling to Gosport and entertaining us all weekend).

                      Ruedi, as always, was a warm ray of sunshine (on a cold, grey day)  Thanks for all the chocolate and photos!

                      I could go on and on saying thank you to everyone, but the office beckons - I'm on a mission to get as many pairs of MBBs as possible out of the door tomorrow (although will depend on how much hemming G is able to get through!)

                      😘

                      AKA Mrs G

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                      • swiss-jeansfreakS
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                        @Finn666:

                        first pic of Beatle I'm seeing!… 🙂

                        I can proove it. She was there and we really had fun:

                        @Finn666:

                        great pics Gav…though I wonder what you guys did to that giant egg!?
                        and ruedi's beach slippers...priceless 🙂

                        And Rafa:
                        What's wrong with my beach slippers?
                        Those are my winter sandals even resisting the hard Swiss winter!!! hahaha

                        All my pics under:
                        https://picasaweb.google.com/116118427799433045500/20130330IronHeartChainStitchMassacreGosport?authkey=Gv1sRgCNeR363S96fYjAE#

                        Really roughest vintage or raw denim rags deserves to survive for ever! So never throw away any raw denim rags - Use them as long as possible and when it comes to their end - there is a safe place where your favorite items can rest in peace for ever in the Jeansmseum ruedi.karrer@jeansmuseum.org

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                          ^where do you live? It's cool you flew in for that..

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                          • GilesG
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                            And the next batch for Chopping n Chaining get wheeled over to the new office…..

                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                            • Finn666F
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                              @swiss-jeansfreak:

                              I can proove it. She was there and we really had fun:

                              And Rafa:
                              What's wrong with my beach slippers?
                              Those are my winter sandals even resisting the hard Swiss winter!!! hahaha

                              thanks for sharing the pics mate and i was just kidding with the "beach slippers"…nothing wrong with them mate.
                              iirc those are the same ones you wore to the VMC party back then...you without those slippers is the same with swiss without making chocolate, those are you signature 😉

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                              • swiss-jeansfreakS
                                swiss-jeansfreak
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                                @Nerkg:

                                ^where do you live? It's cool you flew in for that..

                                In Zurich Switzerland. It was a 1 hour 20 min. flight to London and then a nice train ride down to Gosport, which I really like

                                @Finn666:

                                @swiss-jeansfreak:

                                I can proove it. She was there and we really had fun:

                                And Rafa:
                                What's wrong with my beach slippers?
                                Those are my winter sandals even resisting the hard Swiss winter!!! hahaha

                                thanks for sharing the pics mate and i was just kidding with the "beach slippers"…nothing wrong with them mate.
                                iirc those are the same ones you wore to the VMC party back then...you without those slippers is the same with swiss without making chocolate, those are you signature 😉

                                I was kidding about my sandals as well. I know that all fashion people would kill me for that but yeah, it's a part of me to walk around the comfy way

                                Really roughest vintage or raw denim rags deserves to survive for ever! So never throw away any raw denim rags - Use them as long as possible and when it comes to their end - there is a safe place where your favorite items can rest in peace for ever in the Jeansmseum ruedi.karrer@jeansmuseum.org

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                                  I can witness that Ruedi wears his sandals all year, he sticks to his principles. 🙂

                                  great pix gals and guys, thanks for sharing

                                  Cheers,
                                  David

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                                  • Megatron1505M
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                                    That pic of B and Ruedi is frikkin great !!!!

                                    Made in England, clothed in Japan, fed in America and drunk in Belgium !

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                                    • SeulS
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                                      Kickass pics. So much delicious looking denim.

                                      I guess it's useless though to try and have you soak those 25 oz bastards, Rüdi… You'll wear 'm out way too soon if you don't...  :-\

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                                      • GilesG
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                                        Yet more go over for Chopping & Chaining…..

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                        • tmgT
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                                          ^Sterling effort there sir, thank you!

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                                          • daynymD
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                                            Great fun to follow this thread.

                                            Iron Heart, where customers are beyond kings 🙂

                                            why so serious?

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