Stuff that works.
I like stuff that works and stuff that holds up. I also have a HUGE admiration for people that work hard. Sometimes when on the early wood kiln shift 5:30 am I think I'm an early bird only to see half the lights on on my street. People work hard around here.
I always buy quality. I ain't a Walmart shopper. Buy quality and look after it or buy quality and abuse the heck out of it like I do. Quality is more likely to hold up.
I bought 7 pairs of Darn Tough socks. They ain't cheap!!! 30 bucks a pair. However they are guaranteed for life. I've sent 3 pairs back in the past 5 years. They always send me a new pair. I like that and when they do I go to my local Mountain Equipment Store and buy another pair. I figure I have socks for life.
10 years ago this month I read the story of Hiut Denim in Wales. A whole community of jean makers laid off by big bizz so that they could have their jeans made cheaply in China. Hiut Denim took over the factory, rehired the workers and set out to make the best denim jeans in the world. I bought a pair for I think 125 pounds Sterling which is $213.38 cents Cdn today. That ain't cheap. Today they are $225 pounds sterling $384.07. Holy crap! But here's the caveat they will be repaired for life. I'm sending my jeans back and they are just about rags. Worn weekly for 10 years. Doing that math works out to $21.33 amortized over 10 years. I'm thinking long and hard about a pair of $400 blue jeans. Maybe they will be my Canadian tuxedo pants. No pottery making, wood splitting and crawling in fireboxes with the new ones.
At USU I got turned on to the wordsmithing of Guy Clark. Songs like "Stuff that works" and "The Cape" I figure he wrote just for me. Those songs have made me cry. Sometimes I can look as crusty as a bear's arse but on the inside is a delicate flower of a man.
Here's a few lyrics of Guy's
I got an old blue shirt and it suits me just fine
I like the way it feels so I wear it all the time
I got an old guitar, won't ever stay in tune
I like the way it sounds in a dark and empty room
I got an old pair of boots and they fit just right
Well I can work all day and I can dance all night
I got an old used car and it runs just like a top
I get the feelin' it ain't ever gonna stop
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You can't even wash them once, you wash them and hang them out to dry on a line,
no dryer even, and they shrink so bad they never fit. I reattach all the sales tags
and return them. Go buy a pair of Levi's 4 sizes too big, wash them once, same thing,
they shrink so much they never fit, put the tags back on return to the store.
How many inches on the waist do you need to add, so you can wash them once and they still fit?
So I've been buying OLD NAVY, they go through the wash and dryer fine, but after a year of wear, they become crotchless, every pair I buy the crotch goes first.
May be I'll give those miracle jeans of your recommendation a try.
Major Tom
The things that define you are not just the things that you do, but the things you say no to.
Saying no is focus.
We only make jeans.
We say no to anything else.
Be narrow.
Be good.
https://hiutdenim.co.uk/
when they put the crown on Queen Camilla,
that she would suddenly burst into flames.
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