A remarkable old post from the sadly discontinued PingMag, on the fashion conciousness of Japanese construction workers. Of particular interest to us are the pants worn by Tobi workers, and the wrist protections.

A few of us own Thai Fisherman's Pants, and while we rarely, if ever, wear them out in public, we can agree they are by far the most comfortable pants we own.

Wax Converters is probably Australia's best known producer of cotton and polyester canvas. In our bid to use Australian products in Peak Oil designs, we headed out to Rutherford to meet Jim and learn more about the products and processes at WaxCon.

These past few months, we've been designing a jacket, working with Julio Valdes in Sydney to develop a pattern, and get a prototype made up, ready for on-demand making. Here's photos of prototype 001.

We'd like to pay our respects to Nigel Cabourn's work, who we discovered earlier this year when searching for current makers of old school outdoors wear.

Back when we lived in Dunedin, New Zealand, we discovered Cactus Climbing Equipment. They're making high quality gear for the outdoors, and especially famous are their heavy duty pants, the Dreadnoughts.