Sympathy-For-The-Denim

Many thanks for your quick response... will try out coconut oil then.

Hi folks,

soon I will get a pair of worn in Alden Indy Boots made from Horween Chromexcel,

and since all recommended care products for this "pull up" contain animal ingredients, I would love

to know if anyone here has an advice for a good vegetarian care product?

Many thanks in advance

also Unionmade provides the actual measurements.

many thanks Paul T thanks for clearifying that Lee  topic.

speaking of sanforized denim, it´s interesting that the denim of cool hands mirror jeans are just to shrink about 5%, rather than 10% for most rigid LVCs

Many thanks for posting all the details. Love the brighter shade of blue here.

The denim reminds of rigid Lee jeans. Btw. did Lee also buy it´s denim from Cone? Now the

claim to use japanese denim for their 101 range...

The LVC sizing issue seems still ongoing. Many thanks for all measurements.

Btw, I got the current 1890(new cone denim) which unfortunately also come true to size .waistwise

The current 1915(new cone denim) run 0,5-1" over size.

I am with Maynard, too.

hello kalenov,

some leathers can cause allergy, precisely it´s the chromium used for the tanning process

that sometimes can be released from the leathers to your skin.

http://www.news-medical.net/health/Chromium-Allergy.aspx

there will be a regular repro of the 1976, aleady to find here:

http://www.hanon-shop.com/i/q/264080000/levis-vintage-1976-501-jeans

and the limited "mirror" jeans(also based on the 1976) will be made from deadstock lefthand twill.

all details of the jeans will be mirrored, from the patch to the rivets, since 501s always came in right hand twill.

I have a 32" waist and I would need a W29 for the 1952, since my W28 pair is a bit too snug and my W30 too wide. But I like to wear jeans on the slimmer side.

But also mine are older repros by Edwin, don´t no how the sizing is today. just watch out at rakuten, most of the time they have the reals measurements.

at the price they are sold for i would return em and get the right size...

Congrats JDelage,

I have to pairs of the 1952s, these are so nice and still one of the best repros you can find. The only problems i have is the size, since the don´t come in W29. My W30s are too wide and W28 is too tight... soaking doesn´t  shrink the waist much, just a significant length shrinkage will happen. These will even stretch out more after soak than before, since the water make the denim softer.

i´ve just received the newest incarnation of the 1890 which i got at good price on ebay.

beautiful and very light loomstate denim of a bright shade of blue, the brightest blue of all LVC denim so far.

but be aware: now they fit really true to stated size. i barely fit into em. so if you wear w30 at todays standart Lee or Levi`s,

you need to get a W32 for the 1890s... i remember earlier versions that were totally oversized.

it looks like a pair of the Levi´s RED Line from the the late 00s, rare but no one wants em.

I have several pairs that I really like to be part of my collection.

left W30 1978 repro, to right W35 original vintage.

@maynard

cynical speaking i guess it´s just a new thing that fit´s right in the todays market of tapered jeans, the high rise only is a womens mainstream thing. levi´s needs to make money, and needs normal people also to buy their products. they could have just modify

the 1978 to, make em accurate to the period, but instead, the brought a hole "new" thing out. there are other jeans missing to me as vintage fan, such as the knappave or 1873 to stand out more from the current collection. bur these aren´t top sellers... well just my point of view. another thing is, if you watch how the prises have increased for vintage 1970s 501s, it´s only clever to do a repro.

maybe LVC brings out an "engineered" or a "1996 1937 201xx repro" repro next season.

i am sorry, for i was referring to the 551zxx, but i see it the way like you with the '47s. if i would want new '47 i would go with the current rinsed version, it´s fury and has a nice feal. the origin wouldn´t bother me.

i just wonder, because to me the denim of the current version looks pretty slick and a bit boring. this is why i refused getting these...

i don´t want to bother you setterman, but some pics of the result from dryer of both pairs would be nice. do you have the current 551zxx or the 1st valencia street edition?

saw the current version of the 1947 rinsed, and these seam a little bit on the bigger size. as long as you can try em on, buy em true to size waist like, since it always stretches back.

@Paul T, these 1920s are incredible beautiful, the vertical texture and just a hint of a green cast, or does it come from

the light. but wasn´t cone mills the 1st to use synthetic indigo?

thanks setterman, forgot the 551zxx, as it was the predecessor of the 505 and a neat piece of denim, due to the details.

wasn´t the womens 701 sanforized aswell?

The few pairs that are sanforized are of the orange tab collection, to name 606, 605, 646, 615, 517. The only sanforized Red Tab is the 505.

To me rinsed jeans always look nearly slightly shrunken, but of course one rinse can´t take all shrinkage, so I´d presume that these will shrink further with a couple of washes.

Happy NEW YEAR btw.