Jeans: The Final Chapter

BY TAHI MOORE

(JEANS: The Final Chapter)
This is the land of big. I see people wearing stuff I want to buy. Where do they get it? Where do you get a v neck t-shirt. I got a slightly oversized piere cardan t-shirt with a big round neck like a girls shirt that I like. I found a small shop where the guy brings back stuff from Japan and they only get jeans in my size. So I got some.

CRAFTSTYLING
I had to craftstyle the jeans down from a wide straightleg to the cut that suits me. So I did that, and now after months of searching and going to the other side of the world and recraftstyling jeans from france for the japanese market at a reasonable price I have what I've been looking for. It's a letdown. Jeans aren't worth all that effort. I mean they're not that great. You just kind of need them. I understand why people pay four times as much as they should for jeans that look okay when they try them on. From now on I'm just going to make my own suits.



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BY HENRY OLIVER





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Watches

BY TAHI MOORE

I'm in KL. A lot of people are wearing watches. Watches I think are hard because there are so many that think like it's a necessary thing that you kind of pretty up a bit. But the whole cell phone thing yeah you know.

Now, I think that watches are just like it's like you wear one for the look so now it wants to just look like a watch. If there is another layer of re-hiding the watch, it's too much it's too complex you have to just have the thing looking like you got the watch because it looks like a watch. It goes the other way too, it can be too basic like you just got a cheap watch because you need one. No they can never be too basic, nor too cheap looking like it's okay to do plastic becasue it looks just like an expensive watch you know with the gold bits and the flashy writing or whatever and that elegance of style or something you gotta get a cheap watch just simple like the person designing it goes can you see the time? Yeah okay, it's done that's it. Sometimes the cheap watches are really good too, but most of the time they're just like the expensive ones, they have way too much details, the time display just hides under all this crap on your wrist. If there's a useful function in having a watch it's that you can read the time in half a second instead of five seconds. You really want that time thing right tere without being too cluttered up.

But more people are wearing watches. The othodox thing to do is to get an old one with good design. I've been predicting that swatch watches will come back, I don't know. But they still do plain ones which are nice.

I'm looking for a good see through watch I really want a quartz crystal digital see through watch no details. Would that just look too much like a mac? Probably. Okay.

Styles: Railroad, which is about readability, but the official swiss ones have this blob on the end of the second hand.

Dive, I've seen a few people wear them well. Then there are all these watches with bezels and it's like having an altometer on your car.

Pilot watches usually have a triangle at the top, often with a couple of dots. It's all a bit whiffy, I'm sure there are lots of watches that work but the whole theme thing I mean it's not fancy dress here.



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