Glory Threads - How Did You Find Iron Heart?

[TaBLemann]

The year was 2007.  I had spent the greater part of 2006 diving into the whole raw denim craze, via Nudies, APC, Ande Whall.  Think Superfuture.Superdenim, Self Edge, Blue in Green.  The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college was marked by my cousin's suicide, my first girlfriend, and a good summer job in NYC.  During this time, I was dead-set on getting myself a good type-3 denim jacket, and I had only three criteria in mind: 1. Blanket lined  2. Hand warmer pockets  3. Internal pocket.  This last one probably stemmed from having grown up watching Bond flicks and somehow being entranced whenever he would reach into his suit jacket to pull something out.

Anyways, I did lots of searching.  At that time, I believe the Iron Heart UK website had one pair of jeans for sale, old arcuates and tab in tact.  I remember something about being able to select your rivet metal, but could be wrong about that.  No jackets though.  I think I eventually landed at Rebirth and found the IH 7526-J.  Maybe I was bad at research then, but this was the only jacket I could find anywhere that met my criteria.

This was before Paypal; getting it paid for required an in-person trip to the bank and a wire transfer to Japan.  At the time -  being only 18 years of age - I felt very pleased with myself for going to such lengths to acquire a gem from abroad.

It came, I wore it pretty much every day for most of college, and the rest is history.  Actually, I didn't buy another IH item until several years later when I bought my dad the first release of aprons (you should see the wear on that thing now).  Then again years later when I moved to Colorado, got my first therapy job, and started amassing a wardrobe of western shirts.  Just yesterday a kid asked me "why you always look like a cowboy?"  Who knew it would end up here.

So soft:

Now I'm an old man and mostly just rock 'n' roll by drinking tea:

Edit… This is how I used to rock 'n' roll:

[Aetas]

An old man, who Rock's his Thermos tea from high above .

Would love to see the Apron @TaBLemann .

[gaseousclay]

@TaBLemann:

Edit… This is how I used to rock 'n' roll:

Tom Cruise called, he wants his DNA back