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[Swampster]

None of my Lees have sizing on the patch.
Always had the habit with Levi’s to put the belt over the patch as I don’t really like it, I even remove patches sometimes. With Lees, I rarely put the belt under the patch except if it’s a rather thin one.
Well done with the white selvedge 501s, a picture of turn-ups would be welcome. Like says my friend @cerneabbas, if you have selvedge jeans, you have to show the selvedge!
I had white MiUSA 501s in the time, but I remember they were complicated to wash as stains even small tend to stay. But great looking jeans.

Toying whether to leave them hand rolled, which I usually do and generally stays smart enough (for me anyway), or to get them properly done. There is a seamstress just round the corner from my new house who put some replacement toggles on my duffle coat. I asked her whether she would do simple things like turn-ups as she does a lot of dress alterations and similar complicated stuff, but she said it was fine. I certainly want her to do my black Levi's as for some reason they never stayed rolled as well as the blue one.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Haha of course I remember Play School - Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin and Derek Griffiths!😀

As for South Shields - we call them Sand Dancers or Sandies - they’re a strange breed often split within families between SAFC and NUFC so it can make for some spirited conversations.

BTW for anyone looking in I met a mate when I was home recently who has a sideline business rewaxing. Barbours so PM me if you need details. He’s a good lad.

 

[Swampster]

My wife is a Sand Dancer, so I will reserve my judgement I've picked up the odd Northumbrian and/or Geordie word from her, mostly via the Lambton Worm.
I've had a couple of trips to the Barbour outlet shop at the factory, which is worth a visit for anyone who wants that kind of thing.

 

[Thin White Duke]

My wife is a Sand Dancer, so I will reserve my judgement I've picked up the odd Northumbrian and/or Geordie word from her, mostly via the Lambton Worm.
I've had a couple of trips to the Barbour outlet shop at the factory, which is worth a visit for anyone who wants that kind of thing.

Careful now. ‘The Lambton Worm’ is clearly a Mackem song as he went fishing in The Wear, so the dialect is obviously Mackem not Geordie!😀

I was teaching it to my little girl and my wife gave me the stink-eye look. “That’s just culture man woman, I’m giving her proper culture here!”😁

BTW forgot to add that like you, my black selvedge 501s don’t seem to want to keep their stiff one inch roll the way my blue jeans do so I’m problies gonna take them down to my bloke and have him turn them up and stitch the roll in permanently.

 

[Inkss]

Not really a jeans person. Got four pairs. Three blue selvedge and one pair of brown 501s.
Use them for painting and that's about it. They're all f**ked now and covered in paint, mud and god knows what else

 

[Inkss]

Another interesting article on BAMFstyle:

A Brief Cinematic History of the Lacoste Shirt » BAMF Style

Developed by René Lacoste in the 1920s, Lacoste tennis shirts have featured in countless movies and TV shows in the decades since.

bamfstyle.com

 

[Reggae Mike]

Not really a jeans person. Got four pairs. Three blue selvedge and one pair of brown 501s.
Use them for painting and that's about it. They're all f**ked now and covered in paint, mud and god knows what else
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I really want you to mean you painted those pieces behind you.

 

[Reggae Mike]

 

[Reggae Mike]

Lucked out on an Ebay bid for $16.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

My wife is a Sand Dancer, so I will reserve my judgement I've picked up the odd Northumbrian and/or Geordie word from her, mostly via the Lambton Worm.
I've had a couple of trips to the Barbour outlet shop at the factory, which is worth a visit for anyone who wants that kind of thing.

My late Uncle Norman was a Geordie. I learned a sentence - though not from him - that contains all the sounds you need to be able to speak with a Northumberland/Geordie accent. It runs:

"Divvent gan doon theor, hinny - if ye hang aroond heor, theor's a canny lass whe's gannin te waak aboot in hor bonny byuts aal ower Porcy's waall."

[The trouble I had getting that past this site's autocorrect!]

 

[Thin White Duke]

My late Uncle Norman was a Geordie. I learned a sentence - though not from him - that contains all the sounds you need to be able to speak with a Northumberland/Geordie accent. It runs:

"Divvent gan doon theor, hinny - if ye hang aroond heor, theor's a canny lass whe's gannin te waak aboot in hor bonny byuts aal ower Porcy's waall."

[The trouble I had getting that past this site's autocorrect!]

Haha that’s good and fairly accurate.
Use of “whee” for “who” is very Mackem not Geordie. When Newcastle fans come to the stadium of light they all pull out their keys and chant “whee’s keys are these keys” - the thick twats think it’s an insult but it’s not the slam dunk they’re hoping for!

Also remember:
Divvent - Geordie
Dinnet - Mackem
Daint - Sand-dancer

 

[Inkss]

Geordie Smokey Robinson : I Second That Immersion

 

[Swampster]

Haha that’s good and fairly accurate.
Use of “whee” for “who” is very Mackem not Geordie. When Newcastle fans come to the stadium of light they all pull out their keys and chant “whee’s keys are these keys” - the thick twats think it’s an insult but it’s not the slam dunk they’re hoping for!

Also remember:
Divvent - Geordie
Dinnet - Mackem
Daint - Sand-dancer

A bit of MtS relevance - a site about NE dialect & accent had a clip which came from "All Dressed Up & Going Nowhere" a BBC doc about skinheads and hairies in 1971.
There is a comment that the skinheads have their hair longer than usual due to the winter.
Surprised to see that some of the hairies virtually have mullets - easier when riding a m/c I suppose, with or without helmet. "Won't Get Fooled Again" is used for the backing music of the bikers.
The Bobbies turning up in a Hillman Imp police car must have filled them with dread
There is a short followup made in 2013 which meets up with some of the skinheads in the original.

One of the first presents I had from my wife was a Geordie dictionary (which had a few bits of neighbouring dialects too). She had a summer job at the Beamish Museum and I think it was from there that she got 'Divvent flick ye *** ash on wor clippy mat**' which tends to get rolled out for any time I drop something around the house.

Our main bit of Mackem is 'fud'.

The best bit of Geordie is Ross Noble talking about the 'toblerone-rolo combo' on QI.


I found the video clip I was looking at what someone has called the beetroot line - the isogloss running north of Sunderland for how that word is pronounced. It apparently more or less matches the watershed of the main rivers. All sorts of historical reasons going back to the Angles for why the accents/dialects have their differences.


*Some of the transliteration may be less accurate than others.
** The colloquial word for cigarette has been auto-Bowdlerized.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Haha that’s good and fairly accurate.
Use of “whee” for “who” is very Mackem not Geordie. When Newcastle fans come to the stadium of light they all pull out their keys and chant “whee’s keys are these keys” - the thick twats think it’s an insult but it’s not the slam dunk they’re hoping for!

Also remember:
Divvent - Geordie
Dinnet - Mackem
Daint - Sand-dancer

I'm trying to remember where I got that sentence from. I seem to recall it was an LP. There was a joke on it, about a Geordie "Scoot" - a scoot for General Custer, just before the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Apparently Custer had sent him out to see what was happening over the hill, and he galloped back...

"Sor! Sor!" he cried. "Theor's thoosands an thoosands o Injans, all whoopin an hollerin an beatin on drums!"

"Well done, laddie," said Custer. "Are they war drums?"

"Why naa! Theo're theors!"

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Latest podcast - a bit outside our remit, but Kate has picked some great Disco and Hip-Hop tracks. Honest, the link will work - it just looks a bit odd.

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