Nice article about the Mount Vernon Cotton Mill, one of the few remaining cotton mills in the U.S..  I’m currently reading Rachel Louise Snyder’s book (Fugitive Denim) and this article compliments the current chapter quite well.

via ACL

Some iPhone pics of the Enishi Yoshi denim.  At this light angle you can see the horizontal texture in the weft.  These are on high rotation.

We got this in Japan…  I can’t remember where.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/theres-gold-in-them-thar-hills-or-somewhere/

The Levi’s game is named after an imaginary 19th-century figure, Grayson Ozias IV, or G. O. the Fourth – as in “Go Forth” … get it? The “Go Forth” campaign is being created by Wieden & Kennedy in Portland, Ore.

Ozias is described as a friend of a nephew of Levi Strauss, the (real) founder of the Levi’s parent, Levi Strauss & Company; the gold rush drew Strauss to California, where he opened a dry goods business and later sold denim pants.

There will be four phases to the game, which is to conclude in mid-November when a final challenge will be revealed to the 100 finalists who make it through the first three phases. The first of the 100 who figures out the last piece of the puzzle gets to dig up a steel box with the $100,000 inside.

Use the web site for clues: http://goforth.levi.com/fortune

And follow http://twitter.com/GraysonOziasIV on twitter

People were blogging about this a while ago, but I only just got around to re-watching 3 Days of the Condor (a 1975 espionage film starring Robert Redford).  Redford wears some nice clothes, and the movie is great too.

I remember back when I originally saw the film, I wanted Redford’s herringbone tweed jacket.  I was too young and didn’t have the means to buy anything like that at the time.  Well, over the following years, tweed jackets pretty much became the standard uniform of university lecturers – who added suede elbow patches, and tended to make them not as cool anymore.

Anyway, re-watching the film, it’s the Pea Coat which captures my attention (as indigofan readers would expect).  Redford pops the collar on both jackets, the Pea Coat has a much bigger collar, so of course the Pea Coat wins.  Hah.

There’s some other nice things in the wardrobe, like the aviator specs, denim shirt, tweed tie.  The old bronco van is cool too.

Klax-on:

http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/amekajishop-klax-on/stj53-bkwh.html

Black version on 2nd:

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/2nd/fh-stj-53-bkxbk/

Melton wool with vegetable tanned horse leather arms.

The script kind of doesn’t make sense, but it actually adds to the character of the jacket.

That’s the way the ball bounce! The chain is not stronger than its weakest.

A left-handed skeleton with a flaming swing.  I love it.

I wonder if Flathead will make this jacket again?

http://www.buzzricksons.jp/product/us_air_force-0019.html

It looks amazing, and it looks very loud.  I thought it looks too loud to wear in public.

Hinoya have some fit pics which didn’t change my opinion.

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/hinoya/br11540/

But now that I’ve seen some pictures scanned from the Beams catalog on ACL.

http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/09/22/the-beams-autumn-winter-2009-10-mens-catalog/

These pics make the jacket look incredibly wearable.  I don’t think I have the style to pull that look off, but some people certainly can.

http://drinkinanddronin.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/factory-feature-for-the-evisu-heritage-collection/

These jeans have more detailing than I was aware of.

I didn’t understand the “bluff pocket seam” description, but a bit more googleing got me there.

http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/bluff_pockets/

The pocket is sewn on from the inside, as I believe you can see in the photograph above.

Here are some detailed descriptions and shots of the Evisu Deluxe denim jacket on five-secondskin.

http://five-secondskin.blogspot.com/2008/11/evisu-deluxe-silk-denim-jacket.html

He’s also got the jeans here.

http://five-secondskin.blogspot.com/2009/08/evisu-deluxe-single-neddle-jeans.html

Very nice indeed.