Don’t the first days of spring just fill you with positive vibes, good cheer and hopes about new beginnings…? Nope, me neither. Load of bollocks.
However, it does provide some decent light for photo’s. I’ll be taking all the credit for those, and for posting them. No way a stupid season is getting it.
Yesterday (All IH plus ///):
Today (All IH plus Wesco’s):
New shirt (actually my first new IH shirt for years). Old jeans. Pub bathroom mirror.
Just popping in to say hi… been missing this place and you guys.
Actually took some fit pics today. Nothing shocking… but a recently purchased pair og 634-XHS (pre soak) are featured.
PN watch cap
Untucked
IH hoodie
IHT
IH-822
Custom Boss
Don’t call it a comeback, I been here for years…
IHSW-69-BLK
IH-822
Filthy’s ring
Some hot pub mirror action…
IHV-08 (?)
IHTL-?
IH-634-B
IHWE-5 (?)
Old af IH-526j-OD (over a decade’s wear now), with brand new IH-814’s. My original pair died about two years ago from an acute crotch failure. Super happy to be back in a pair.
PN Cap
IHV-?
IH-526-jOD
IH-461S
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Doesn’t it look beautiful? Well it fekkin isn’t. 15m/s wind straight outta Siberia 🥶
@Aetas correct. There are six of these granite monoliths with industrially bored holes. The idea about the whistling wind was better in theory than in practice.
Evening walk… nights are getting lighter.
@Karol thanks for the kind words and all your support otherwise. It's nice to have something to write about and the time and energy to do it...
@Danimal506 not gonna lie... I wouldn't be sad if this inspired some interest and got them re-made. Long shot, but stranger things have happened.
Link to a post I just made about the 822's little brother... posted here for purposes of comparison.
I was at the web gathering on Saturday and had just done my first repair on my IH-828, and I showed them off, and told the following tale...
I bought my pair about two years ago as I was growing out of my beloved 822's and needed an alternative, as they were not in stock at the time. On a purely subjective level I was not very well disposed to the 14oz, which was an entirely prejudiced opinion, as I'd never really had anything to do with it. In all honesty, I was never a fan of the brand "going light", and that is about all it took for me to give the 14oz side-eye at best. On the whole I just ignored its existence, because I'm grown up like that.
But I figured the double knee brought the IH-828 up to heavyweight status and needed this design in my life, because frankly, nothing looks better than these and a thicc pair of Three Stripes. I was pleased when they arrived and continued to ignore their nominal 14oz status. When I started working at a dive bar last summer they became my go-to work jean, which accelerated both fading and washing cycles. And at this point I realised I needed to give the 14oz the props it deserves.
Don't get me wrong, 21oz is still where it's at, but the 14oz does some things the 21oz doesn't. Number one amongst them is the higher contrast fade. Not mad levels, but not far off UHR, (if not as quick to develop). Nr.2 is their crunchiness, (which I guess aids and abets the contrasting fades), they crease quickly and sharply, and that all returns after a wash. They don't ever get quite as buttery soft as 21oz as a result. But on the whole a very nice denim indeed, with a surprising amount of character.
As I said to the guys on the net meet, I know @Giles and @Alex had to work a long time to get Haraki-san to agree to designing and making 14oz, so I can't imagine he was super happy work with it. But the fact that it had two iterations and a complete re-design, before he was happy, tells us something. At the least, it attests to his commitment to designing a lighter weight denim, that could still bear the brands name with pride. It also shows a designer who is more interested in the quality of his work than he is in his personal preferences. That makes him a true craftsman. Someone who approaches his work with integrity, regardless of the task. So at the end of the day, I´ll admit, I should not have doubted the 14oz. It's a Haraki-san designed denim, and you know that means it is going to be good.
EDITED FOR SPLELLING ERLORS.
Pic dump:
@Alex you're right it didn't, I'd forgotten that... Checkout was a lot more steps than it needed to be for sure, and not very intuitive, now you mention it. It was the filter thing that drove me batty.
@motojobobo the main thing that annoyed me was the filtering function that had to reload the page every time you checked a box. Serious time sink and not something you get on other sites. Otherwise some of the drop down menus were overly sensitive, on iOS and on a desktop. Lots of other things worked great.
While gen X’ers may not GAF about these details, they did not raise the IH website to the level of a truly professional clothing retail company anno 2025 imho. I expect that to change now.
Otherwise the major issue shopside was the way the site handled (or rather didn’t handle), the bun fights for popular releases.
@JoshC Star Wars memes are the best memes
