Learning moments in my denim journey
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@ARNC said in Learning moments in my denim journey:
but others camp out in my head and haunt my dreams until I buy them
Ahhh I hate this feeling, I'll sometimes become so fixated on something it'll manifest in my dreams... (Leather T3 most recently...)
“𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”
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@Brandrea I can definitely relate (and I sometimes follow the n + 1 argument that’s often advanced here). Sometimes it’s a huge relief when the dimensions don’t work for me. I don’t mind having a good selection of items I will wear and enjoy, but I don’t want loads of stuff I never wear. I’m building a wardrobe not an IH museum
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@RobeOfTheMagi boots have been calling me too... but for now, my Red Wings from eBay are a sound compromise
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My main learning moment (other than not to soak your Pale Rider) is that I realize more and more that the addiction to buying new IH clothing too fast leads to a shitload of shirts and trousers that almost do not fade at all, since they get worn so little. The trick (too late for me) is to start young, slow the shopping and wear each item exclusively for some months.
On the other side: if you start too young you will soon realize that the tag 32 jeans of your 20's will not work for middle age (spread)
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@mclaincausey That's a great idea. Honestly though, the phones keep getting incrementally bigger, and to be fair so do I
, but there's just not a ton of room in my front pockets. Also, the phone going in and out of the pocket all the time puts unnecessary wear on the pocket seam/edge, and not doing so saves me from having to make repairs to the top of the pocket bag that inevitably develops a hole. My hanky lives in the back pocket opposite my wallet.“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman
@zeebeeleather
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@Tobi said in Learning moments in my denim journey:
The trick (too late for me) is to start young, slow the shopping and wear each item exclusively for some months.
This is the real deal right here.
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@seawolf said in Learning moments in my denim journey:
@mclaincausey . My hanky lives in the back pocket opposite my wallet.
Same. And my phone lives there in short stints from time to time.
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@Tobi nailed it. I’m not good at this at all with anything but jeans. It’s fine though my IHSH-62 will look real cool when I’m dead
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@mclaincausey said in Learning moments in my denim journey:
when I’m dead
I often daydream about my successors looking through my old denim decades from now and what they might think. I do not expect to raise little denimheads but I will damn well try!
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@mclaincausey absolutely! Adorable!
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@Brandrea said in Learning moments in my denim journey:
What tends to happen is that I hover over my size and see the stock dwindling before me very eyes and I say fu*% it, and I’d hit the buy button.
Read out loud to Paula....
"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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@Giles and … those sneaky re-stock alerts
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- Don’t let purchase decisions be influenced too much by how items look on someone else - this took me a long while to realise that just cause X looks good on someone else doesn’t mean X looks good on me.
- Trial and error is key to finding the perfect jean cut - measurements are very helpful but will only get you so far. I was convinced I would never look good in the 634 cut and always tried to aim for (to my mind at the time) more “youthful” cuts like the 777. But I look so much better in the 634 than I have in any other cut.
- There are many good brands with different flavours out there, but all roads lead to IH.
