And I ended up with this nice bloody gash in my knee, and also my jeans...
Funny thing is that when I just got my first 7161's I also fell with my bike and as such have a lighter spot on exactly the same spot on my knee.

Repaired it already but figured I could take some pics while I was at it:
Not much to see in terms of fading, but it does show my whole "set-up"...


Did a traditional hand repair, stitched a piece of the beautiful Cone "tweed" denim under it and then folded in the edges and stitched over those


As good as new!

Am a little over 2 months of solid everyday wear on my CPO shirt, and while it's still to early for a detailed wear update, what is there is very promising already, but doesn't come out to well in photo's yet.


I do however have something else to show, inspired by vintage photographs of sailors I figured I'd just go for it:

Am quite happy with how she came out, based her on a Vargas girl and put her into a navy outfit.
Considering I hadn't painted for years and that the shirts 11oz denim isn't the smoothest surface to paint on I think I did a fairly good job.

Mister Freedom himself doing custom work on the lower right leg of my 7163's


Photographs by Sidney Lo

Had to change another thing on my 7161's

The pockets aren't very deep and while they were perfect for my bi-fold I felt that it was a bit of a tight fit for my new Flat Head wallet, especially since I bike quite a lot, and I didn't want to risk it popping out. So the obvious thing was to add some fabric to the top of the pocket.
Also decided that everything I do to them from now on will be done completely by hand.

To make it blend in more with the jeans and prevent it from being an obvious extra piece I decided to make the piece of denim come out of the pocket and cover up the rivet


Used very nice green line selvedge denim from a pair of Levis RED's (apologies for the inconsistency of the lighting)

And done:

For comparison, this about how much the wallet came out with out the extra piece (folded down for the picture)


And a bonus pre 200 days wash Teaser pic...

Talking to Christophe about my jeans I told him that I kept track of the days I've been wearing them. I do it in a diary but he asked if I did it prisonstyle with stripes on the inside.
I thought that was a very nice idea, but decided to change it a little.
So after a couple of hours catching up, here is the back of my lower right leg.
177 days, 1 wash (at 99 days marked with red):



From now on at the end of every day I've worn them I will add a stitch, and to be able to do that properly here's a small sewing kit I quickly made. It goes in my left back pocket.