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Mpukas post some pictures comparing please. Would like to see the compairison shots, I might consider it then.

I'm with you Swiss, I love the look of fresh raw denim. But not to the extent you do ahah

What's that geezer talking about these jeans never being washed down in the comments section. I've got proper internet rage now - grrrrr!

That's just your average rawr denim commentor. Can't read that site, really quite bad (besides a very select few articles

Not sure when the new challenges will be posted but one of them should incourage interaction throughout the community. I know I've said it before, but the dwc is a wasteland.

The more the merrier

But coming along nicely, how many washes?

Yeah, exactly that. Will give that a try on Monday.

I love the dual colour stitching on these.

 

 

Any idea as to what I can do with this cinch? I am not able to slide it in on the other side of the cinch.

 

Yeah but the pockets on the rgt shirt are hideous and I believe that shirt is long sold out too.

Those sound like they could be the ultimate black pair of jeans, been on the hunt for some and those measurements are perfect. You don't happen to have a fade sample?

Edit: safe to assume they're ow

Can always expect hog to come through, needlework being sashiko makes complete sense, I didn't look at a blown up photo till now and can totally see it now. Seriously cool looking, and that lamb wool type III is super cool.

I would like to see a work shirt in that fabric.

New jeans over on their web shop, anyone have more knowledge as to what needlework refers to? Heading out the door, so no time for googling

 

 

"This is the jeans that were assembled using is one of the traditional fabric of Japan "needlework". 

By performing sewing stab fine on one surface of the cotton cloth was overlaid, the fabric is made ​​of knowledge of Japanese enhanced strength of the fabric, have also been used, such as judo and fire clothing because durable Japan It is a traditional realistic work material. 
Condition stained by Aizen a wonderfully delicate, the fall colors are denim and is a little bit different texture enjoy. 
Easy to wear tight straight, it is the pants of a beautiful silhouette. "

If someone sponsored me to do it, I would for sure

Check out a ow sugar cane type II versus a ow model and you can see, also could see how my s552 25oz faded over two years versus a raw s5000.

But again I think it will differ from brand to brand, but it's a fact that most Japanese OW is quite hard on the denim initially. I would like to find some sources on how some brands do it though

Those wiremens have really grown on me, would really consider picking those up for my next boot. My lone wolf farmers are super comfy.

Or amount of starch in the jeans to begin with, and how they were one washed etc. My eternals OW are still starchy and stiff as hell. My raw sugarcanes were only warmed soaked and lost most of their starch and are super soft.

Eternal uses a pretty cool method for their ow method, completely different than most brands. Iirc it's pretty much just soaked and left to be hung, given it a nice crisp feeling.

But sda must do a mass wash with a lot of pair, because their is litterally zero starch left in them.

Also nemo it takes so many washes to rid the starchyness out of jeans. Yes some brands must use different methods but generally the ow methods used in Japan are pretty harsh.

My s710 og come out still a bit crispy after a wash and I've was he them at least 8 times.

@BF, mate, didn't you have the 1108 before and sell them?

Yeah, and now I have them.

Here are my 1101 13.75oz TTS. Probably around 2.5 years of wear and countless washes. people gotta wash your jeans more.

@SugarMountain you gotta post yours now.

Heres one final photo in natural light to see the true color

Fuck I want to wear my 1108 more now those are amazing...

I guess I'm just spoiled with most of my jawnz being fast faders, but I m glad these are taking more work. Don't want instant gratification with them, need them to last me to the end of the contest at least.

But if these were still my after work jeans I think I'd be in the same boat as you setter

OW denim has zero starch which doesn't give you nice crisp creases so I do find that it is harder to fade OW denim. My sda workshirt was like that too.

What do you guys think off sneakers that get better with wear? I like sneakers and the idea of leather getting better with wear.

Can't say I've ever seen a pair of sneakers that get better with wear, maybe only one would be a classic pair of gazelles

This denim is pretty tough, been trying my hardest to beat these things up but not showing much. I do attribute it to being a OW denim.

 

Loved the look of those when they came out, and nice to see a faded pair.

Those are dope looking foxy, is it a leepro or just Lee style back pockets? I guess you didn't get to wear them, but I wonder if the stitching on the pocket bag would get annoyinf