shark jacobs

About eighteen months old, semi regular washes.

semi regular repairs and reinforcements

I've never been a fan of how big the thin finn top block is

haha.. fit pics to follow.

i'm not feeling the edwin/levis back pocket hybrid

I can't get over that calligraphy signature! its impossible!

the 'er' at the end of mister and the 'f' and 'om' of freedom are all connected together as one flowing unit

So this means it had to be written as either Mister F...om, with the om written backwards, and then the 'reed' filled in last

or maybe the om was written first and then looped back to write the F and er was written backward and the rest as filled in last?

A friend of mine asked his gardener to wear his jeans and the guy killed them within 4 months.

holy shit that's hilarious

its like next level sweatshop style

any entrepreneurs out there wanna invest in my new company? It's gonna be a traditional southeast asian child labourer scheme but with a twist. I'm gonna get the kids to sew the jeans together and then they'll wear them until they're faded.

There are a few kinks to work out (starving vietnamese kids are all W24 L26, and they can put a pair together in three and a half minutes but it takes months to fade them) but I think the basic plan is solid.

your mom is huge

if you're torn between getting a 28 and 30... why don't you try a 29?

but if you're trying them on I'd recommend just getting the tightest waist you can do up.

washing won't give you sick fades if you don't already have sick fades

it will quite literally fade your jeans in the sense that they will noticeably lighten colour all over, especially if its your first wash

but i assume that what you want are contrasts fades, creases and rubbed areas

once you already have visible fading on your thighs, ass, assorted creases, then washing will increase the contrast of those, but until you actually have visible fades a wash won't do what you want.

probably not. I don't know what kind of repair you're doing, but washing will cause any holes, or rips, or even just areas with the vertical threads worn away (warp? weft? i forget which is which) to get bigger and fray more.

the only possible exception i can imagine would be if they were unsanforized and hadn't been soaked or washed yet, then you might want to give them a hot soak first so that the repair doesn't do weird distorty things to the repaired area

They use a ton of different fabrics with a ton of different dyes, even between their indigo models.

There is a "natural indigo organic selvage" weird guy

and a "natural indigo revival selvage" skinny guy

i think its safe to say that the first one is organic indigo, and i'd assume so about the second but i don't really know what they mean by "revival"

shit, you can read that denim like braille

Dude, not to be an ass, but he's clearly at some kind of event, not just leaning on a random guy's car he found in the kmart parking lot.

I think it's probably alright.

Holy shit, nordic denim is run by ghostface killah!?

dude that is such a mess of type faces it is amazing

have you soaked it yet?

you want to reduce the leg opening without tapering the rest of the leg?

you could do a sweatpants style cinch maybe but I don' t think that's what you mean

to be frank, I don't really know what you mean and I'm not sure you do either

I have a tattoo of a finger on my upper lip and it has faded to the point of being barely legible, for what it's worth

What is the point of lined back pockets?

Dig out some third rate secondary po-mo source from 1987...?

Oh! I get it. You're that pathetic grad student in the bar scene in Good Will Humping, eh?

haha, its even more of a burn because you said humping

slim jim dry japan?

also, only making raw means far lower production costs

this is the practical reason that naked and famous only does raw

depends on how you want it to fit

you can size down up to two sizes without much trouble, but if down two is skinnier than you want there's no harm in getting your actual size and wearing a belt when the waist stretches

wouldn't competitively wearing jeans contradict "wabi sabi"?

do they make special pants for climbing trees anyway?

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

before this thread gets more bogged down i'm gonna link to the posts/pictures in questions so that newcomers know what it's all about

Kawawaka's gold Fullcounts and its pocket repair

Klue's Fullcounts and a message for the haters

and Clearbolt's rainbow Momotaro's

some action shots:

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