1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
Finally, the hemming on these jeans. Actually, I've shortened these and hemmed them exactly the way they were originally, with a 2-cm lockstitched hem. Although this is not my favorite way of hemming, as a matter of principle I always aim to respect and faithfully reproduce the original hem.
This raps up this little mini series on this quite unique pair of Walker's Round Up Rider Pants.

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1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
The zipper has a nickel pin-lock slider marked "EXPORT", C style top stops, and black cotton tape, all compatible with a 1950s garment.

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1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
The snap button on this pair is gorgeous. Both the socket and the stud are attached the old-fashioned way with two-prong caps.

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1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
The belt loops on this pair are the widest of any jeans I own -- about 19 mm!
A comparison with the belt loops on a pair of Levi's 501s (last photo) shows just how wide that is.

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1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
Staying with the front pockets, which have an extra piece of facing attached to the pocket entrance. This results in an interesting construction where the two pieces of facing meet and overlap, with the stitches crossing on the folded edge of the pocket bags.

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1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
Moving on to some of the more interesting details on this pair, starting with the watch pocket. It has a rivet on the outer corner, but not on the inner corner. Perhaps the inner corner was intended to be hidden under the front pocket?
The rivets, by the way, are copper-plated steel.
The lack of a rivet on the inner corner reveals the characteristic old method of "back-tacking", a remnant from a time when sewing machines had no reverse yet.

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1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
A few words about the denim used on these 1950s jeans; Kingcot denim, the same brand of denim as was used on the 1930s pair of Snag Proof buckle back jeans I posted a couple of months ago.
Kingcot was a brand name owned by a Canadian manufacturer of cotton products established in 1881 in Hamilton, Ontario, as the Ontario Cotton Mills Company. Besides denim, the company also produced flour bags, shoe lining and carpet yarns. During its history the company underwent several name changes and reorganizations, but as evidenced by this pair of Walker's Round Up Rider Pants, it was producing Kingcot denim at least into the 1950s.
The denim used for the 1930s Snag Proof buckle back jeans was marked with a red "Kingcot" stamp every half yard on the backside of the fabric, but the denim on this 1950s pair is not.
The sticker that was attached to the left back pocket designates the denim weight as "10 oz" in the old designation of ounce per yard of fabric, which corresponds to about 12.5 oz in today's designation of ounce per square yard. The right-hand twill denim is sanforized, but not pre-skewed, so there is a fair bit of leg twist to the right. It was woven on narrow-width looms, and therefore has selvedge on the outseam edges of both the front and back panels, but the selvedge seams are closed and overlocked, a detail which I quite like.

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1950s Walker's Round Up Rider Pants
I'll start this mini-series with a few words about the Canadian company that made these, Tapatco Ltd. I spent quite some time trying to find information about the company and the brand, but I couldn't find anything other than that they also appear to have made outdoor vests and gloves, for which I was able to find a few ads in old Canadian newspapers, but I found none for jeans. Basically, all I know about the jeans brand is what is written on this great-looking flasher, and that they were made of Kingcot denim.
If anyone knows more about Tapatco or Walker's Round Up Rider Pants, please let me know.

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From my humble collection ...
Over the next several posts I'll introduce some of the interesting details on a pair from the 1950s. They were deadstock with the original flashers when I bought them in 2001. (Pardon the poor quality of pic 1, which was taken over 20 years ago.) I've since washed and worn them several times. Pics 2 and 3 show what they look like today.

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1930s Snag Proof buckle back jeans
Delving a bit deeper into the denim.
From the back side of the denim it is easier to distinguish between the left- and right-hand twill.
The back side of the denim is marked with a red stamp every half yard. As shown in pic 2, the same stamp is used on the left- and right-hand twill denim.
The stamp is almost illegible, but comparing the 10 instances of the stamp and adjusting the contrast, exposure, saturation etc as in pic 5, I am 90% certain that it reads as follows:

6 2/3 OZS.
KINGCOT
REGISTERED

6 2/3 oz is, of course, the old designation of ounce per yard (of 28" fabric), which translates into the current designation of a little over 8 oz per square yard. (Thanks to @denim_seeker for a great conversion table posted recently!)

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