drgitlin

Ozric - I sent you an email, but if you're going to make a small run that fit like Kratts I'm very interested.

I bought a pair similar to those when Levis began reissuing them - must have been 1999? I bought them at American Classics on the King's Road. They were terrible quality - the cinchback broke after about 2 weeks. Took them back and exchanged them for a pair of Snopants and never looked back.

I'm 30, and I'm a sucker for the 1920 repro 201s. Don't know why, but the leather patch ones just never broke in, but the cloth patch/blue selvedge ones are just perfect. Other than that, Yen orange label, and old old old school Evisu - with any luck I'll be able to fit back into my favourite pair shortly. Pink/Yellow selvedge and worn beautifully. Might check out some PRPS too.

I tell you what I'd love to find though - the Stylecraft jeans that Yamane released a long time ago. The back pocket stitching was a bow, and they went for about £250 almost a decade ago.

Edited by Dr Jonboy on Jun 12, 2006 at 08:43 PM

Damn. I was working for Diesel in London when we launched those. I was one of the denim trainers for the UK as well as doing the denim wall for the Selfridges branch - we must have got them in 1997 or early 1998 - would have been before I started my PhD.

They mysteriously vanished from my flat when I was on holiday, and I'm still cut up about it 7 years down the line...

Part of the allure of a good pair of jeans is that they absorb character from the wearer. If you start off with a pair of unwashed, or very dark, uniform colour jeans, and spend the next few years wearing them they develop a life of their own - the whiskers reflect where they crease when you sit down, your wallet shows up, and so on and so forth.

On the other hand, my Yen Jeans were a fairly light colour to begin with, and I dig them too. But I wouldn't go in for a hyper-washed pair, or some that paint splattered or ripped/holed. I remember the 1980s and Bros too well for that!

Edited by Dr Jonboy on Jun 12, 2006 at 02:07 PM

Twisted Yen Jeans

X-Large tee

Dakota Gulf Racing jacket

2005 Mardi Gras Terminator Lows

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Edited by Dr Jonboy on Jun 11, 2006 at 07:11 PM

Not the best group pic.

Back row: Old patrick Cox wannabes, Prada shoes, Jack Purcells, Nike Aquasocks

3rd row: Air Force IIs, Air Terminator Low, Air Jordan Vs, Nike flip flop mule things, Air Tuned

2nd row: Air Max 95s, Air Max 97s, Terra Ketchikan, Terra Humara, Footscapes

Front row: Puma Speed Kings, Adidas Micropacer 2000s, can't remember what the mid velcro shelltoes are called, Superstars.

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Edited by Dr Jonboy on Jun 11, 2006 at 07:07 PM

Back in 1996, when I was an undergrad, I worked at Diesel in London, on the denim wall at the concession in Selfridges. That gave me an education in denim, and I branched out from Diesel to Evis, Yen etc. I had one of the first pairs of unwashed Kratts when they decided to do a shrink-to-fit fabric, and I still maintain those were one of the best pairs of jeans I ever had. Sadly they disappeared sometime in 1998 when I was on holiday.

These days I flit between a couple of pairs of Levis 201 reissues (the ones with the cloth patch - the leather patch ones never ever faded or loosened up right) and a pair of twisted Yen Jeans.