General IH Discussion

I've finally got a thermal Henley on the way. Fingers crossed.

I.O.U. Leather Collection leather jacket
IHSH-1213 (White)
IH-666-XHS
Clark's Desert Trek (resoled)





Not as fitted as my usual style, but comfy and GREAT fir the cooler weather here lately

Probably a pair to wear with boots not sneakers or more streamlined shoes. They look good though. I have 17" calves hopefully they lose a little size once I can cut after the holidays.

How is the waist stretching? I think a 35 666 may be do able.

Thanks! I thrifted this heavy leather jacket for like $50 here in Okinawa. And, yeah the shoes are the issue mostly imho. My footwear has all been chosen based on a more sleek, slender wardrobe.

brentkuz, and anyone else who owns and might be interested in owning the IHSH-107 super heavy western flannel. I know this was touched on before but I just want to give you guys a heads up on the fact that these shrink when you wash them.

I washed my black one today. Out of the box the XXL was almost a perfect fit but just a touch too big. Definitely still wearable and great for layering but just a bit bigger than a perfect fit. So I decided to machine wash it in a warm wash/cold rinse cycle and hang dry. The result was that it shrunk to a perfect fit. I was very pleased with the result as it gave me just about the perfect amount of shrinkage I needed.

I know Dirty_Denim has stated that all of his IH products have shrunk significantly. unnamed also got quite a bit of shrinkage with his on a hot wash/hot dry. If I would have done that with mine I think it would have shrunk too small. It seems very odd to me that IH and SelfEdge don't mention the shrinkage, after all we are potentially spending over 300 bucks a pop on these.

So be careful guys, if an IH shirt fits you perfect out of the box I would be very careful when it comes time to wash. I would almost say that it's ideal for IH shirts to be a touch too big out of the box to account for shrinkage.

Bros any of you find the 555's on rakuten? I'm still thinking about getting the 666's but would like a little slimmer leg. 8.5" is my optimal cuff opening.

Chase Sapphire Preferred and Amex Platinum and above don't charge foreign transaction fees. They're both relatively easy to get. I've heard it's pretty easy to get approval if you are initially declined by doing a quick appeal with a representative of Chase. The CSP is also a metal credit card.. feels pretty cool, in case that stuff matters to you.

I had both and ended up cancelling the Amex.. yearly fee isn't worth it, in my opinion, when I get similar perks with CSP. Customer service at Amex is incredible, in case you ever need to dispute a charge, but they aren't a very popular card outside the US. CSP has great fraud detection and stays on top of suspicious charges.. their customer service hasn't let me down, yet, either, but I can tell Amex is a level above with their concierge service. Amex seriously bends over backward to make sure you're not just satisfied, but delighted. It took me three years to convince them to let me cancel my card.. they waived the annual fee for two years to try to convince me to stay.

Here's some more info on other options:
www.nerdwallet.com/blog/top-credit-cards/no-foreign-transaction-fee-credit-card/
www.cardhub.com/credit-cards/foreign-transaction-fee/

Don't know if you've seen this, but today is the last day to take part in the IH Super Heavy Contest :
www.ironheart.co.uk/exclude/dwcxuhr-deposit.html

I have a feeling lager sizes are strictly for the western market haha

Just released.

Oh nice!! Finally an IndigoxIndigo with contrast stitching. I wonder if SelfEdge is getting these?

oh damn...I might have found what I'm going to spend my SelfEdge credit on.