Showing posts with label Jeans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeans. Show all posts
Monday, 17 April 2017
It is Jeans Birthday
It's Jean's birthday and I must tell her what I see, because she is a thousand miles away.
I portage east to the big lake on a sunny and calm day, passing a man with a child on his shoulders who says with a laugh, "It's a long way to the water," and I can reply, "no it's not," with a laugh, and as our shoulders drift pass each other in opposite directions, we are amused.
The dry and brittle totally exhausted cattails still stand and their puffs remain, our spring and late winter dryer than normal and less stormy than most. The farmers east of the mountains are already beginning to count their water, and the mountain reservoirs wait for less than normal snowpack to melt. I bump against the edge of the east marsh. The first new cattails are coming up, still less than a hand-span high. And a redwing blackbird trills and chips as I sit.
I head through the east channel of the burial island and into the south lagoon where I find four herons, although two of them are only seen after they take to wing. The fourth sits and lets me pass under with no obvious concern.
As I move north up the east side of the west islands, the scent of fresh water comes to me. The water is still too cold for that, so the sun must be heating the surface just enough to lift it airborne.
At #1 island, an otter swims parallel to me for a hundred yards. It is just a few inches from the cattails and I am 30 yards out. It only notices me when it turns in my direction. It's serpentine dive is the last I see of it.
I circle #1 and return towards the east end of the ancient portage, but first, I pass through the break in broken island, grabbing the last of the car tires as I go.
Sunday, 16 April 2017
Flemings jeans from Liverpool
Circa 1963 before and after, these well made jeans were sold close to Tysons Building Contractors of 5 Dryden Street where I worked and just off Scotland Road , Liverpool.
They can now be bought once again!
They can now be bought once again!
A Brief History of Flemings
The first and possibly the most credible name in jeanswear to come out of Merseyside. W H Fleming founded his clothier company in the Scotland road area of Liverpool in the year 1881. Eight years after Levi Strauss won the patent for riveted pants in the USA, W H Fleming had imported the idea and began manufacturing similar work- wear for the seamen of this fair port.
http://www.flemingsjeansliverpool.com/about.html
Size 34 will cost you just GBP30.00
Postage to RSA is only GBP14 so still less than you will pay for Levi's in the UK today?
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/exhibitions/liverpoollives/william_henry_fleming.aspx
They offer a logo with the Liver Bird on the pocket or without it, also the name on the back of the jeans as we normally find.
A letter head and a note as a reference?
Dated 12 /01/1911, does 150 Scotland Road in Liverpool still exist, it was on the city end of the road and a lot of road re planning has taken place down there over the years.
A letter head and a note as a reference?
My thanks to http://www.liverpoolpicturebook.com/2014/09/Picsoftheday.html for the use of their picture.
There is a new brand logo now, is it new or a copy of the old one?
My thanks to the Liverpool Picture Book for posting the photos.
This one was taken on Walton Road in 1973.
In case your wondering, I have no asscociation with Flemings and I have never owned a pair of their jeans, maybe one day?
Roy
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