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Moto old baggy. Almost 4 years.

Trying my best to get that @Double 0 Soul fades

Drying in the Texas heat. Still not seeing much marbling on my pair like some others have noticed.

Vintage Gant Chambray Gap denim jacket - got this 20 years ago raw and still going strong Vintage Tommy Hilfiger chinos Clarks

Just reorganizing all my FW ephemera, they had largely been left disorganized but loosely grouped by sub label. Largest count of the lot are the Power Wear items (tees, sweats, etc.) followed by Union Special and Great Lakes. Didn't have the wherewithal to get a total count, but maybe one day. I did take note that my oldest item is from 2013.

Great page of nicely fading jeans... well done gents!! Clearly I'm ages behind... as I whimsically flit across my jeans rail... I think my best chance is if you all burn out through overwear and overwashing leaving only threads in June 2026

So not only are Japanese jean manufacturers repro’ing old Levi’s, now Japanese denim mills are repro’ing Cone’s business decisions!

WoM 5150 / Freewheelers / Warehouse / @Duke Mantee / Converse

Envious of you lot that can wear denim jackets in June! These spent about 8 hours in the Texas sun (chilly day here, only 91 F / ~32 C) and they're bone dry now. Starting to see a little marbling pop up. They'll go back on the legs tomorrow.

^ Although if he wore one of his usual pairs whilst being water boarded, the process may create some interesting artificial distressing to his jeans. As well as quite a bit of distress to his person…

Neat Style x Denim Bridge WWII / Equus / Sugar Cane 1942 / Nicks Trying uncuffed with the 42s for a change of pace

Got lucky a couple weeks ago and found this CR07. It was listed without measurements on mercari, but I couldn't pass it up; the first and only one I've seen in months of regular searching, and it's got almost no wear to boot.

Photos always seem lighter than reality with my phone but here are my pair of WH 1915 Belt loop model (1922 501XX) after their 3rd wash. Denim has faded super fast compared to what l'm usually used to but l have had them as part of rotation for nearly 3 years so l guess that's fair. Only a little cotton becoming worn/unravelled at the front pocket openings otherwise they are outstanding imo. Patch is a doppelganger for a vintage one. Love these. Anyway, so the first photo has been Sufu'd cos l had to chop my toes out of the pic, sorry

Isn't waterboarding making huge profits by supplying a natural resource for years then blarting for a government handout when the infrastructure you failed to maintain starts to breakdown despite said profits? Or is that just seven trent waterboarding?

The Corkhills - probably a style inspiration to a young @MJF9

A good reason to buy more jeans... time to stock up lads and lasses

Rumor has it that Kurabo is closing mills and therefore the Warehouse x Kurabo work for Denime will stop. They are releasing a "special edition" Denime 220A. Just the 220A but sealed in a plastic bag. Seen here https://www.instagram.com/p/DKonKoNJMGh/?igsh=ZDV3OTBuazFidHZl The other pair looks like a 20th Anniversary model, no idea why it is posted here as well.

M&S t, folk cardigan, TCB 50 and Cons

1109xx Probably had these about 10yrs. Only ever worn in sporadic bursts, then shelved for a bit, then dusted off & brought back out... etc etc. I change the cuff size all the time too, never settled on the right length, but whatever, it just adds to the charm of them.

Gave my 33 jacket its second wash today. Coming along slowly but I’m starting to see some progress.

Waterboarding is like bodyboarding .. right?

That's seems to be exactly the problem. Not enough people

^Wow, sad to hear! Which one of us is going to take an apprenticeship to keep the mills going in Japan?

nice page thus far peeps: many styles representing: love it my slobbing bucket or fuggit (to cite ol’ rivethead) fit tcb-wom-rw plus tcb pocket / seam deet as it progresses

Re marbling: yes it has a tendency to marble quite easily when machine washed. But not as bad as the denim from the Denim Bridge contest. Last day at the beach. Cold and windy

Wearing my 220s today

Usual stuff - WOM, Paraboot, + vintage Hawaiian in a seersucker fabric.

Follow up from the small questions thread (and vintage denim thread) - my partner and I both got some new pants today! I got some buzz chinos that I really like, wider than I imagined but still like the fit, and my partner got some nice dark 80s Levi’s. Don’t focus too much on my terrible haircut lol 😛

My first WAYWT of ‘25 WH DSB 1947 CMAN 22501XX

Tezo / Duke / Word of Mouth / Wearmasters

Looking smart and youthfull (before parenthood) in the mid 2000s wearing an Oliver Spencer shirt (and looking at the texture, these are either) SC Okinawa's or Hawaii's

Yeah, it was faded a bit. The denim is standard 1947 denim.

JMM Blluemade an oldie from Ooe Yofukuten-melton wool vest duke belt word of mouth contest jeans clinch Gary boots thanks to @Broark for helping me find this vest

Yeah I have zero interested in pre-distressed denim regardless of brand.

Thanks guys, it is indeed handsome. @ATWM I owe you special thanks, your comparison to the cut of the sugar cane 1953 gave me confidence in buying despite the lack of measurements. You were spot on, the shoulders are sloped and the armholes are a bit small, it feels like its one size bigger than my SC, which is a 38. @Maynard Friedman As an american who has no interest in soccer, you're lucky that didn't go right over my head 🤣 If you mentioned the price to a, uh, "layman" they might believe you!

@Double 0 Soul Details:

My partner traded for some 80s Levi’s at a vintage sale today! They’re a model 26501-0118 with a paper patch, non-selvedge but still beautiful denim, and a 2 2 stamped on the top fly button. Anyone have more info on them at all? Some photos & closeups of the patch, fabric and some nicely sloppy back pocket stitching:

Vintage chambray Vintage OG-107s Chucks Some frog

Gave some wears to my 601xx 1946 Paint Model recently

Motoratory hand-dyed blue sneakers ~8 years old. (Is it still division of moto?) Indigo laces from Buaisou, the original leather lace snapped off couple of years ago... The original color of the leather coming through nicely as it ages, vibram sole still going strong, really solid pair of work.

One of my favorite t-shirts is an old Papa Nui design.

And some impression of the 1942 i got from the second run:

Also feeling behind as I only wear them about 2-3 hours a day, but I there's enough time to catch up! Like our friend volvo, I'm happy with how things have set and will be washing more frequently now as honestly I'm looking for more even fades, similar to vintage pairs here and here. Some updates though, post wash last night:

Thank you for this @merzbot! I want to do a superfuture-level rundown on the Working SKEWed jeans in the next week or so, but actually I just came on to show some details of the 900 Bull Denim, so good timing. This fabric is woven with a 100% cotton warp and a 50/50 wool/hemp weft. Generally speaking, dyes react differently with cellulose fibres (eg cotton, linen) and protein fibres (eg wool, silk), and even more generally speaking dyes stick better to protein than to cellulose. This can be quite subtle, for example with woad, where the blue is relatively deep across all the fibres in the fabric (with the original undyed fabric below): the khaki, particularly, took to the wool much more readily than to the cotton or hemp, creating a sort of turquoise wool fuzz over the top of a paler green cotton/hemp ground: lastly, though, here's a version which is a little more subtle, but which I'm really excited by. This is dyed hadal blue with a formula that reacts only with wool, so that the cotton and hemp remain completely undyed. It gives the effect of a fabric woven with an undyed warp and a melange fibre dyed warp, where dyed wool is spun with undyed hemp, but all with a single garment dye. The jacket reads as denim, but with the softness and lightness of the bull denim cloth.

London

Some pics of my 50s as I mentioned them in the Denim Blunders thread and realised I hadn't shared before.

I’ve been lurking since about 18 months. Though I also think I must have come across this site 15 years ago when I was in high school and somehow stumbled across Evisu. I never ended up getting any, likely due to price and confusion about raw denim. Or maybe I just realized they would be very out of place in my rural farm town and I most probably wouldn’t have been able to pull them off. Sometimes I wish I had gone for it. For some years I have been drawn toward more conscious consumption, mostly interested in pursuing products made in the US. However, I never felt I could afford to. I ended up just not really buying clothes for most of Covid (I’ve been the same size since high school). In researching for my Christmas list for my mother in 2023, I came across madeindex.com, which led me to some American denim brands, which led me to Heddels, r/rawdenim, and ultimately here. I bought for myself a pair of Tellason Stock (non-selvedge) during the Black Friday sale. I wish I had spent more time with that pair and kept lurking and learning before buying more, but over the next few months I backed a Gustin campaign, bought a like new pair of Left Field NYC, bought and sold a pair from 3sixteen, and fell victim to Oni Crushed Concrete hype. I don’t fully regret those purchases, but I’ve taken the last year to wear what I have and keep learning from you all! Still haven’t figured out what I might want next, and not sure I have a lot to contribute, but I appreciate the community. Thanks to all of you for the thoughtful denim and non-denim conversation!