klue

crotch cover

13 oz. yellow cone mills selvage

fullcount contest denim week four

two wash

week four has begun, one machine wash on saturday, it didn't clean as deep as the handwash...

i put the arcs on

lots of handstiching

close up of the streaky 12 oz. conemills redline selvage

i would like to buy up the jeans that were worn so long and need to many repairs to continue to wear them, that is, if you can part with them....

a blowie and a poop....aka blumpkin

please stop your Burroughs-esque writing style.

dont give him the credit

beleaves, no one is impressed by your ability to be weird, stop shitting up this thread please

I tried to refrain from posting. After seeing that latest picture, I can't help but think isn't that the same thing as sandpapering your jeans? It's just that they attached an 'activity' to doctoring the fades that it isn't sandpapering. But the fades certainly LOOK like they were sandpapered. (refer to first wash pics on the FC thread)

with the sandpaper, fibers are cut. my threads seem to be completely intact , just lots of indigo. As far as the gravel sliding goes, we were driving along the road, saw the spot got out of the car and slid down it once. Our jeans got dusty, there was no loss of indigo, no abrasions. we took pictures because it was a cool example of the fun you might have in your pants if you weren't worried about them. Now people think that we selected this location to go out and "work on our fades". i think what i am trying to stress is that these activities are not "planned" or premeditated, they emerge from our experience, by happenstance. .....when talking about how uneven and fake my fades look in the fc thread, please keep in mind it has only been three weeks, of course they won't compare to the beauty of year old fades of more mild wear...

beleaves, you're full o' shit, get real, go to supertrAsh with your metaphysical bullshit...

I gonna agree with tmadd entirely.

It's the whole contrived 'doing things for the fades' and trying too hard to be wacky that turns me right off this 'crew'.

Coal miners certainly didn't slide down gravel mountains to make their jeans look rad and then go and post pictures on the internet.... did they? This business is closer to pre-distressing and sanding than natural wear. If that's what they wanna do though it's up to them.

In the end though i think the best jeans are naturally well worn jeans. It's been said many times before, wear your jeans and live your life. They will fade naturally and become part of you.

Sitting in a box on your wallet is what you are suggesting as natural?

so to sum it up, some people here feel that if those guys didnt wear jeans, they wouldnt be doing the shit they're doing now?

Yes, Khakis wouldn't hold up neither would predistressed American eagle jeans

i dont get the thighs.

The handwash was inconsistent, there's still a lot of charcol a d dirt on the inner thigh

Thanks for the confirmation.......

WOW! they must!

how did you wash 'em?

Hand wash in the shower

I am so confused by this thread as a whole...

It's purpose was to explore where, why, and how people wear their jeans

before they were washed

the back pocket close ups

some more fun

three weeks

first hand wash

The nice weather today is great for doing some work in my flat that I should have done since november...

Beautiful pic

The hyper-wear and painting alter what has been the implicit intent of the contest from "whats happens to a pair of jeans you wear for a year" to "what can we do to a pair of jeans over the course of a year". There isn't anything wrong with what they are doing to the jeans, the issue is that by doing so in a contest setting, it insinuates that they are "playing the same game" as the other contestants, when in fact they are not. Authenticity arguments are bullshit for a plethora of reasons, but deliberately imposing aging on jeans is fundamentally the same whether it is with pinching, sandpaper, or more "clever" means.

I definately used to grind griptape on my apcs three years ago, but it turned out like shit . I read every thread in this forum and learned traditional "Sufu" way. It wasn't untill kawawaka got a pair of deadstock vintage cowboy jeans that i learned my current style of wearing denim. In the first week he came back with some of the most facinating and unique fades i had ever seen. They had more character than any of the jeans I've seen in this forum. It wasn't long before there were elaborate and organic hand repairs. I fell in love with these jeans and wanted to see what it would be like to wear japanes denim with the SAme spirit of kawawaka and at the same time i was ready to make the purchase, the contest jeans were availadle and it is the ideal fit to work and play in, plus why not share my experience with the community, I felt upuntill now I had not much to add because so much has been covered. many people have contributed to this disscussion and I thank all of you for that. I am passionate about my denim .I plan to start a denim company as soon as I graduate. I love japan denim but I am not going to limit myself to levis style. The Japanese have perfected it. I am looking to find the essence of the thing that I love and exploring it in everyway. You are all helping me do this. I apologize for being so serious, it isn't very fun.

as a matter of fact, it seems there is something more appropriate...

Made in japan?

Selvedge?

people are complaining about the arguing, but why not, no one has any postable wear but these two, and if they do they haven't exactly flooded this thread with pics...

and to say that being physically active in jeans(regardless of cost) is disrespect to the jean is worse than painting them. im not going to call the jets equip manager and try to order those tight uniform pants to go play football, im gonna wear my jeans. do they make special pants for climbing trees anyway?

Most of the arborists I know wear 501s

i don't really care what these guys do with their property.

but this shouldn't have started in a contest thread. it's insulting to the forum members who are competing honestly. artificially beating up your jeans, be that sanding, pinching, starching, or painting, ripping, carving or whatever these guys are doing is not right.

when we're talking about a contest.

and really, this thread should just die already. i don't get into attention whores when we're talking about a woman, why should anyone pay attention to guy's being outrageous for outrageousness' sake?

No one I know is getting fades without working for them. This means no pinching cutting shaving scraping or any of the inimaginative crap you would think to do to accelerate the process of fading?