Roman

just a quick question though, around what time did most of you guys find the first signs of fading begin to develop? (Assuming you are just doing regular daily wear and not intermittent or crazy skateboarding 10 hours a day) I feel like I worked a lot less on my 5EPs and my Okinawas with faster results. I'm so jealous of everyone who got the old styles without hideous threading designs. I bought last fall's model and I had to have the store take out the hideous stitching design below teh front pockets

I think it was about 3 or 4 months when I first started to see some fading. My RRL's started to look really good after 7 months. Just keep at it...they'll turn out great!

GoodHustle, this is for you. Here's an update @ 16 months...just washed them a week ago. That makes ~8 machine washes.

Thanks, Hype! I pretty much wore them everyday for the first 4 months, then 4-5 days the rest of the time. The fading was extremely slow, but I'm pretty happy with the result. I used Woolite Black when I washed them which probably helped keep the jeans dark.

how do the jeans hold up? all the denim and seams still going strong after 1 year?

real nice fades btw.

Thanks...These jeans are pretty durable. There are no rips yet, but the denim does seem to be thinning out along the two sharp creases on the left inner leg (picture 2).

My RRL's: 1 year old, machined washed ~7 times, 1 rain storm soak.