Some photos from the Iron Heart Germany Winter Barbecue which took place on Friday.

Home for Christmas. Obligatory trip to the suburban New Jersey shopping malls.

My first shirt was the IHSH-07 bought in 2009. Giles even tried to upsell me the matching pants .

I’ve also included several flannels from the same time period in the photo.

If anyone has seen @Kasi tell him he left his shorts in Unit 2.

@indigostiff Yea, but it's in physics and not chemistry.

@will6er It’s a medium. I didn’t measure before and after washing but I didn’t notice and drastic shrinkage.

I managed to get rid of the stains on my shirt. I did 3 overnight soaks in oxygen bleach followed by 3 washes on a medium cycle at 40 degrees. This removed about 90% of the yellow stains. However, the blue stains in the armpits were still there because the oxygen bleach was not strong enough to break down the indigo.

I then soaked the shirt for 15 minutes at 60 degrees in sodium hydrosulfite, which partially reduced the indigo by removing oxygen and turned the stains pink. If it indigo was fully reduced, the stains would have turned yellow. I then rinsed the shirt to remove the sodium hydrosulfite. If I had let the shirt dry, the indigo would have slowly oxidized and return to blue. Instead, I put it back into a bucket of oxygen bleach. Even though oxygen bleach performs the opposite chemical reaction as sodium hydrosulfite, the oxidation was quick enough that it was able to break down the indigo in its weakened state so the stains were removed instead of turning blue again.

I then washed the shirt with a hard wash at 60 degrees. Afterwards, the yellow stains were invisible and the indigo stains very faint.

@Stringthing75 I live in a cool and cloudy environment and don't usually wear sunscreen, but thanks for the suggestion.

@Brandrea @indigostiff the blue armpit stains are due to indigo transfer. I wore an indigo shirt with my leather jacket and then this t shirt. Otherwise, I didn’t wear this shirt with anything unusual.

From what I’ve read, white clothes can turn yellow, similar to paper, due to oxidation. This can be accelerated if not all the oils and sweat have been removed when washing. I usually washed this shirt on a delicate cycle, so that could be partially responsible.

I soaked it over night in oxygen bleach and it helped a lot. I may do it again or try chlorine bleach.

My shirt has become discolored and I’m trying to figure out the cause. If anyone has some insight, I’d be grateful.

My first guess was sweat since it was most pronounced around the collar, but it also shows in other places and it’s not a problem with my other white t shirts. I also suspected that it had something to do with my wood closet since the discoloration seems to align with the fold lines, but none of my other white shirts in that closet show this. Strangely, it’s absent around the tag but pronounced on the tag stitching.

I bleached the shirt a few years ago and it’s worsened since then. I will most likely end up dying it.

@Kasi how was the honest kebab? Usually the line is a mile long and I’ve never had the patience to wait.

@Davieaston The the page will reappear at 5pm German time and the jeans will be able to be purchased at that time.

After loading the inventory we've got to take the product page offline or else the product would be immediately purchasable.

We would like to have a way to load the inventory, make the product visible but not purchasable, and automate the transition to purchasable at a certain time, but haven't found a workable solution yet.

For technical reasons, two separate product pages for the 684 were created and only one was updated with the correct measurements. I've put the correct measurements on both pages and they should now be visible on the website.

Here are the correct measurements. For all dimensions except the waist, two separate jeans were measured and the average was used. For the waist, the average waist measurement of all jeans was used.

We were worried about the variance in the waist so I measured the waists of all the jeans. With my blue fingers and sore thumbs, I created the table below to summarize the findings. Since the waist for some sizes can vary over 3cm, please contact the shop if you are ordering online and would like a pair that runs big or small.

@Kasi I totally forgot about pineapples, but it looks like you haven't. Great to hear that experience left you with such positive memories