majormajor
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Oh well. Why do we bother to post on forums about this stuff if it is really all the same. [huh]
Mister Freedom and workwear blogs are symbiotic. They write about his products just like the vintage stuff they found on and offline. Part of the appeal is that this things are rare and someone does rave about them... which does produce some cravings in the readership. It works for them.
We are going in circles, mate. I post on here because I buy certain clothes, and enjoy chatting about them. Symbiosis doesn't enter in to it.
As I said, there are true artisans like John Chapman, who makes a very specialist line of clothing. Does he make them difficult to buy? No he doesn't. Getting a jacket from him might take time, but it is a very simple affair to order one. There is certainly no mystery to it.
But the denim "artisans" we have been discussing somehow feel the need to hide behind "smoke & mirrors" to convince their acolytes of their "exclusivity".
Not all are like this. Rising Sun, as I mentioned, are just as "artisan" as the rest, but manage to engage in regular commerce without feelings of guilt.
MF, however, are simply another high-price designer, such as say, Armani, but rather than admitting they are simply high-priced, they posture some kind of fake "street cred".
As a buyer of vintage denim for over 40 years, this current fad would be comical to me, if it wasn't so contrived.