Traveling pants in Norway

It's been a while since we've updated you about the life and events of our traveling pants. Here's some pictures from Eide Håvard, their most recent owner, who is living and working in Oslo, Norway. As you can see, the pants are fitting very well and Eide is a man with fine taste.

We've also received more pictures of the pants which we'll post here at the blog shortly. We can also reveal that the traveling pants are now once again situated in Sweden and it is with pure excitement that we're waiting on new pictures which will show us what the pants has been through lately.

//Douglas

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Gustav's flea market find

We got ourselves an intern! His name is Gustav and he'll assist us here at Unionville for the forthcoming time and hopefully learn something about the store and how we're making our Blue Highway jeans. All and all he's a good guy who share our passion and interest for denim. He's a previous student of weaving and has woven quite a few cloths by hand. We'll see if we can make use of his techniques in time.

Today Gustav brought a proper good flea market find to the store. The find in question is this Levi's Shorthorn jacket, made in a neat cowhide quality. Our guess is that the jacket was made in the 60's and you can clearly see that it's been enduring some rough times since. In a plain positive way, of course.

As you may notice, the jacket has a couple of nice details such as a woven Shorthorn tag in the neck, printed rivets and a Big E tab. You can really see how the leather has aged in different ways and gotten different tones as time has passed. Simply fantastic.

This picture above shows how a jacket sleeve can look after 50 years of use. The leather has that soft feeling it only can get after several years of wearing and lots of love.

And of course, the jacket fits Gustav perfectly. It's got itself a whole new adventure up ahead, with plenty of wearing time coming for its new owner.

//Douglas

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A good pair of festival shorts

It's almost exactly five years ago since a friend of ours bought his Lee 101z's. When he had owned his jeans for 2,5 years he began working in the music industry with a main orientation towards festival organisation. He'd been using and washing them to get truly nice wearing marks, but felt that he had worn them with long legs for good. Naturally, he made a pair of shorts out of them and since then they've been used as his festival/working shorts. The shorts has now been worn in three working seasons without washing, so he thought it might be a good idea to finally make them have the good old washing machine treatment.

 

Christmas 2007 - a year of wearing, unwashed.

Five years of wearing, lots of washes and festival work

Since he is always wearing them when working he tends to often get the question "why are you always wearing the same shorts"? The natural answer is of course "well, it's my festival shorts".

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Third stop of the traveling pants

We'd like to take the time to apologize for our lack of regular updates regarding our traveling pants, and also for the recent inactivity here at the blog. We'll make sure to change that in the near future. There's some nice upcoming Blue Highway news this autumn, which we of course are looking forward to a lot.

Anyhow, here are a couple of pictures of Matthew Murphy, the third person that has worn the pants. He lives in Colorado and below you can see what the jeans looked like a couple of months ago before it took off to our neighbouring country Norway.

So, many thanks to Matthew for being part of our little project. We're currently eagerly waiting for information regarding what happened to the jeans after they left The States.

//Douglas

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