Random questions to which you seek an answer

[Giles]

The only jean they have got arriving any time soon is a IH-555N, which is a Natural Indigo Super Slim.  If you want Iron Heart, you're going to have to buy mail order.

[Graeme]

I only arrived here a few months back, so never got to experience Sam Bears.

Up There do Tender (one of my favourite brands), 3Sixteen and a few others.

[Snowy]

@johnathon Hello, from someone up in Sydney. Mail Order Iron Heart isn't scary and by the sounds of it, is the way to go. Paula/Giles will have something from their shop to you within about 4 days. If you measure something you have and like the fit of, post questions on the closest cut/size/style you like's thread, someone will confirm if you've sized right and it'll be sorted. For the jeans that a few of us have experience with, it's not too difficult to get sound advice. The 634S to this day remains my favourite cut of any jean.

Goodluck!

[Seul]

@johnathon:

Anyway I'm up for a bit of " modernization "…

I love how a 60 year old fellar is up for a bit of modernisation… Sorry if that sounds sarcastic, or condescending; I genuinely think that's just cool 

[johnathon]

Sam Bears was an unbelievable shop. Rumored to have not been painted or anything for a long long long time and it looked it. It was like stepping back in time… I just love that sort of thing. If you're interested google it and there's a heap of pics inside before it shut down.

Snowy... I just might have to do mail order but I wouldn't mind looking at the 555's that Giles mentioned. They actually don't look too bad but I just don't want tight upstairs and my crack hanging out at the back when bent over that's all. Down the legs though they look OK and I'm pretty skinny these days down the thighs and calves. I'm just an old codger that wont change his ways that easily I think. My family reckons I'm stuck in the 70's but I feel I'm in slowly edging my way towards 1980.
All part of my " modernization " ay  Seul.

[Giles]

@johnathon , I forgot.  Corlection are also taking the IH-777S-21, which they should get getting any day now….

[johnathon]

OK no worries Giles thanks. Do you know that is all that they will have ? … the 555 and 777 ?

[Giles]

That is all that they have ordered thus far, though Lin did tell me this morning he'll place a new denim order soon…

[neph93]

What will happen to the 21oz signature denim if you give it a first wash it on 90 degrees? I'm thinking shrinkage/colour/eventual damage?

[neph93]

@johnathon:

OK no worries Giles thanks. Do you know that is all that they will have ? … the 555 and 777 ?

I was wondering which fits you prefer in Levi's? I used to wear them back before I "upgraded" to IH so maybe I can help…

[Giles]

You'll feck the patch up.  Apart from that, not a lot….

[neph93]

Ok, thanks. Combination of losing weight and stretch have made my 301's unbearably large. Thought an extreme wash might help but I guess the sanforisation really does take all the shrinkage out?

[Giles]

We also one wash the 21oz once they are constructed…..

[neph93]

Good to know. It's either to the tailors or early re-purposing to building-the-veranda-jeans.

[seawolf]

@Giles:

We also one wash the 21oz once they are constructed…..

Are they then ironed? they're always so flat when they arrive!

[Giles]

Ironed and patches applied, post wash…

[JCMx800]

FYI: The tape arrived safe in Italy. It just made some holidays in feckin Canada

[Seul]

I once had a 7" spend some time in Bermuda, cause the guy who shipped it - from the USofA- only used the abbreviation "BE"…

[steelworker]

@Seul:

I once had a 7" spend some time in Bermuda, cause the guy who shipped it - from the USofA- only used the abbreviation "BE"…

Could have been worse. Might have gone to Belarus- or Belize.

[Megatron1505]

@Seul:

I once had a 7" .

That's what she said