Michigan is replacing Linguist with Clinkscale from Kentucky, which seems like a really good replacement. Not that is matters because Michigan is still a dumpster fire.
if you wait around the holidays you can get a subscription for half off the annual sub. That’s the only reason I have one. The only content I get from it I enjoy is from late October to April.
Nudie advertises free repairs and I contacted both the NY and LA locations and they don’t do mail repairs. So unless I find someone to drop them off for me, they’re not getting repaired.
Thanks for the kind words. In hindsight I wish I had a before picture. I’m currently working a pair of selvedge denim from J. Crew, with a pair from Gap thrown in from time to time.
I was thinking about retiring these/turning them into my work jeans but I just saw Nudie offers free repairs so I might see what they can do for these.
I read a chapter or two of Blade of the Immortal, didn't realize they were the same. I like it a lot. Reminds me a little of a more mature Samurai Champloo. It's very dark and intense.