salaami

went 2 weeks this time...i had to doublewash since all the dirt didn't come out. i did the stone-wall job last week and didn't have time to wash so i just beat them with my hands until the dirt/dust was less apparent. so this time mad indigo and dirt came out. kirk's castille soap, hot dry

dope repair atzec,very nice touch. i need to repair the top of the back pocket stitching as well.

igit's DBs knocked me to the floor.

theres a 2 year jeans thead, calling paulo and crash to find/post pics of evisus! rep your set

to further what kiya said, this thread will be uber-exclusive. it takes a certain type of dude, even for us sufu heads to wear a pair for 24 months+. but when you do(or just wear them until they are truly unwearable/unrepairable) the results are surreal. there becomes fading in certain areas of the jean that can only come from long-term wear fading in i heard someone say when i was new to sufu that in the japanese denim community it's seen as disrespectful to the makers of the jean to not wear them @ least 2 years. i don't know how true it is, but i feel the same. the sams are at 20 months, but i now i only wear them on the worst jobs(cement, mortar, potential wet paint, etc.). i posted them in the evo a while back, but i'll repost if requested although they have a while to go.

the samurai discolor boast has several two year joints, as well as a lot of japanese sites. someone should take the time to scour them all and repost them here for our enjoyment:D. deus(where is he) has some 2 year evisu posted somewhere too...

THE MORE YOU WASH/SOAK YOUR JEANS THE BETTER CHANCE THEY WILL LAST 2+YEARS;)

journal should've reached kiya by now, i sent it off last tuesday. i want that icecream

the plot thickens...

markus you bastard, you have more combs than me already

vintage 1971 zippo. i feed it denim

after a hot wash be glad it actually survived at all. mine rolled up like a blunt wrap. and it was so crispy hard it stuck me in the hand the first few times i put them on, so i had to just remove it and make my own...

well ed, i see a miscarriage as just one more reason to keep on fuckin'. keep yo head up!

the selvage looks the same as the sample of vintage evis denim flash sent me.

salaami, I have a pair of made in italy dior 19cm, and those are absolutely not slubby, yet I have a lot of vertical falling. How do you explain this!?

i'm an ignorant asshole who doesn't know his warp from his weft:o. forreal, you can get vert. falling if the warp threads vary in size. i've seen this on cheep department-store jeans that have fake ringspun warps. i still don't know shit, i really come to sufu to learn. neg me for my ignorance

beats is the shit, say otherwise and i'll slap your face! if i ever see her somewhere, i'll hug her till the indigo drips out

it's just the slubs fading faster than the rest of the warp threads due to the fact that the fatness of the slub makes it stick out a little from the rest of the denim. the slubs start to fade first. non-slubby denims(denime xx for example) don't show vertical falling. it has some slub, but it's very minimal. vert falling is not a sign of quality per se, it's just a nice effect you get if you rock slubby denim

when it comes to repairs, form is nice, but function is better

i agree with the 'wash when needed' steez. i just wash every week because i wanted to truly treat them like a pair of JC Penny joints, with the exception of only using lye soap, and only hand washing in a bucket(to me it's the truly vintage way) when i was little my moms would wash my jeans once a week with the rest of the clothes, so i'm going back to my pre-sufu ways. she always says'' if you can smell yourself, everybody else smelled you a week ago''. miki-san (mr. fullcount, one of my fave denim heroes) recommends once a week, and i fully trust his acumen. plus wifey won't let me lay on the bed with dirty jeans, so this will be the 'salaami wash steez' for all my future jawns. plus by the end of my two years i'll be at 100 washes, which i think will be a sufu first. indigo is NOT water-soluble friends. viva revolution!

btw this xx denim is tough as rhino leather. i've done things in these that would've torn through some bullshit cloth. and i still have yet to see another company of its size offer selvage pocket-bags.

that dude needs a good va ass-whopping. but who am i to talk, i held the FH for a month too long...

those 'evis' posted above look fugazi. even if they were yamane's first pair i wouldn't rock em'. even the selvage looks wack

dkatz is the last king of scotland

seconded. one day i'm going to go to the lendo lair and demand he wear his 800s exclusively for a while. but then i might end up in a kimora or some kind of figure4 leg lock.

building a stone wall.

don't do it sid, water is bad for fades:D

^lemmy has it all figured out. use daily, wash often. whats wrong with wearing clean pants? i've been building a stone wall all day, quick somebody arrest me for denim brutality... i thought they were abused before, this is ridiculous

well my dear it's on the way to kiya as we speak. it's full of random shit, written entries, receipts, tickets, whatever. put whatever you want in the thing. and about damage, do it.

they will be there eventually, i like the 'old-man combs' that come from looser fits. despite my ironing, the creases in the back of the knees still end up in the same place, it's just the looseness of the fit around the knee+denime denim doesn't fade fast. trust me, it's just the physical labor that makes my 6 mo. pair look like an 18 month pair. while the jeans are mad comfy they still have retained a grainy, rough texture. hayashi-san calls it ''vintage touch''.

the vert. falling comes from the amount of slub in the denim, so that will occur anyway. what impresses me is the combs, wowee