The Yukons are our most period accurate waist overalls that we make here at Rising Sun. If you know anything about us and how we do things then you know that makes these some very period accurate trousers. These are a Rising Sun original that wouldn’t look out of place on the shelf of a general store in the 1890′s. We are just putting the finishing touches on a new batch Yukons here in our shop and I though you might like to see some of the process.
Belt loops secured to the waist band with single needle tack stitching.
Coin pocket opening on the waist band.
Single needle stitched hem with our original “X” detail.
The Rising Sun Yukon jean offers clean finished interior seams by evoking master tailoring methods of yore. Often this involves tricky pattern shapes and folds that today’s mass production factories consider too time consuming to utilize. In producing Rising Sun jeans we found no room for compromise.
Clean finished details and lined waistband and fly
The Rising Sun Yukon jeans is often regarded as the most period-correct jeans we offer, whereas the Blacksimth jeans exemplifies the beauty of the single needle
In case we did not emphasize enough how great vintage boots go with our painstakingly crafted jeans here is more evidence. Our good friend Frank Barone likes to show off his 1940s WWII Paratrooper Jump Boots worn with Rising Sun Yukon jeans in his prized Ford Model AV8 hot rod. When he throws on his vintage aviator sunglasses he looks just like the dry lake racers of yore. They still produce new boots with the Corcoran mark but we have learned that the vintage boots made to WWII period military specs are truly unique. The Corcoran Jump Boots were on the feet of US soldiers fighting worldwide and in action zones across Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific.
This particular pair features leather uppers in brown color as per the specifications at the time. When the US military changed their boot colors to black some soldiers were referred to as “brown boot soldier” as recognition of old timer status. The beautiful and quiet toe cap detail complements our jean’s stitching and the denim selvage perfectly. When coupled with a cuffed pair of Yukon jeans the boots illustrate why the boot and jeans look will never go out of style.
