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After a soak. Just an iPhone camera shot for now.

Samurai s5000Ai-10SP

Thats fucking dope. So jealous of those, they are absolutely beautiful jeans.

What a shame, those are looking really nice! How many months?

Soo is the announcer actually calling it while the fight occurs? He really adds to the drama (even though I can't understand at all.)

Round 3 is fucking hyphy

Spunkey those 660s are really nice. I particularly like the contrast on the honeycombs it looks pretty cool that there is so much indigo still in that area alone. I'm gonna assume you washed or soaked them at least once... how did you hang them for drying? by waist or hem or something else?

I have heard that it is important in most cases to soak your denim before wearing. I am looking into the PBJ XX-05 and was thinking I wouldn't soak and just wear them unwashed because I don't want to sacrifice any of the indigo and starch. Plus I am not sure if they would look good after a soak considering there already kinda slubby. Is it a bad idea to not soak them? Would someone be so kind as to tell me why soaking these would be a good idea? any opinions helpful

thanks

You need to soak them. They are going to shrink when the eventually touch water so you need to soak them to begin with to avoid size issues later on. The wear patterns will also shift post wash/soak if you do not soak them originally. The slubbiness will not change...

From the book 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson

Thanks, jasutek. I had been thinking lately that I should've gone true to size and just endured the stretching...

I got the flathead 4001bk in size 34. I actually measure the waist to be around a 33, it's definitely not a 35. I can get them zipped up, but they're extremely tight. They are perfect from the thigh down for a slim fit and my butt fills them out perfectly. This is all pre soak. If I didn't have to soak them, I think they'd stretch out nicely and be a great fit. I just worry that if I soak them, they'll end up being way too tight. What do you think? I guess my options are soak them and deal with it, return them and wait until some new ones come in that have an actual waist size of 34-35, or order 1001's in a size 36.

Uh you're definitely gonna need to get at least one size up. If you don't soak them at the beginning and you wash or soak them later they will then shrink to an unwearable size from the fit you have currently described.

Some more BSP fit pics... this is after my second hotsoak+airdry. I sized up one - these are size 30. For comparison I wear size 29 in black Skull 5010. I am 5'8" about 140lbs.

Color is off on those photos so here is an evo pic (@25 wear days) for comparison:

Sorry for the dumb request, but does anyone have pictures of faded black 5010's? I've gone through a bunch of this thread and I haven't seen any.

I've had my pair for like 6 months now and there's no fading. I'm finding them impossible to fade!

I posted this a couple pages back and found out that noone on here at least has had any luck fading them. However, mine have several reallllly light fades developing so there is hope. Just keep wearing em...

4001bk

Wow those look really nice. How's the lap fading/knees? Pics?

So I was looking at the 2ndxSamurai 710s on the 2nd website and became very interested... I have a friend going to Japan in 2 weeks or so who may be able to pick something up for me. Does anyone have any info on these jeans? From what babelfish said I think they are a limited run of 100 but surprisingly affordable for such a limited run? Also are they black or blue? - I can't really tell from the pics.

Thanks

Wow some beautiful jeans in here... ^that's intense twisting for 5 months!!

Lets see... right now I have:

Nudie Average Joe Dry Heavy

Skull 5010 Black

Flathead BSP

Hey does anyone have experience with the black 5010s? Do these fade more after a soak? Since they are light colored for black jeans, I assumed it wouldn't really make a huge difference. I've been wearing them pretty hard but they're barely fading even in the seat (and I ride my bike in them everyday). Some fading in the back pockets but that's it. Worn 'em 4 months including a month in 95+ degree weather.

edit: so I searched some more and found that many have this predicament... anybody have any progress since then?