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24 minutes ago, kameisenpai said:

senpai here

maximum TCB love from japan

Hello senpai! Great pictures. Good luck in the contest!

@Nayuta  and @Uncle Karl your graffiti are fantastic!

36 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

What is it with people (mainly Americans it seems) and tumble dryers? 

To be fair I'm as British as the Queen* and I've tumble dried jeans when I want them to get smaller. although it's never made the difference I wanted it to.

* although she's maybe a bit German? I'm actually as British as having an argument in a taxi queue with a kebab in your pocket

1 hour ago, erk said:

Switched to a blue shirt so my wet waistband wouldn’t get blue all over my white shirt 

Man, we know how to live life, don't we?

Nice fit, good luck with the stretch!

16 minutes ago, heyson said:

hot wash and hot tumble dry

This really is living on the edge 

(nice fit though)

4 hours ago, Nayuta said:

 



@Nayuta these are so good! 

good luck #36

6 hours ago, indigo_junkie said:

Turns out I put on more iso weight than I thought (the word is 'denial'). I think if I lost 10lbs the fit would be perfect. Guess that's my next goal this spring

With you there!

i can see this turning from a denim competition into some sort of lockdown weight loss boot camp

6 hours ago, shredwin_206 said:

Anyone with OW done a pre soak? 
curious how much additional shrink you got?

I washed at 30, no dryer. Lost a couple cm in the leg. I’d already stretched the waist a bit before washing so it’s tricky to know if they shrank more there

6 hours ago, julian-wolf said:

Not a chance—these are tight

Mine were the same. Now they’re stretched a tiny bit past the chart size though. They stretch and if the waist is your only worry it might work?

i guess they’re smaller everywhere so I’m getting a slimmer pair, not that sweet looser fit, but that’s ok. The waist was the only place they were wrong; the rest is just different

They fit kind of like my FH3005 now but with the rise on steroids. That’s good for me. 

3 hours ago, Darren Barbera said:

anyone got tips on stretching out the waist please 

I washed them exactly like I’ll always be washing them, to get them used to it. Then I went round the waist bit by bit with the button open and stretched them. Then I put them on damp and fastened them and wiggled round lots. 

56 minutes ago, mandel9000 said:

(Funny thing, even though I use the metric system, I only measure jeans in inches, it's usually easier for comparison.)

yeah this is true! Although this pair has taught me to do it in centimetres (or millimetres maybe!), there’s been that much measuring involved 

1 hour ago, justintk said:

This is an anecdotal experience, but in college I had a pair that were baggy except super tight waist for some reason. I wore them with the top button unbuttoned on a trip down to Rocky Point, Mexico (which is now like a resort area, but at the time you could drive your car right onto the beach and sleep in it) where I drank Coronas and vodka with fresh picked limes from my friends house in Arizona for a week. We realized after that we didn't really have any food. By the end of that I could easily button the waist.

PLAN

(Maybe except the coronas)

@Uncle Karl @mariano_vittori nice fits!

@garden gnomes in space in case it helps I washed my OW yesterday at 30 then manually stretched the waist bit by bit while damp. They’re now just over the OW chart measurements and I reckon they will work fine for me

4 minutes ago, Illcutz said:

but pretty chuffed with the fit.

So you should be.

that owl looks like she’s after your boots, mind

7 minutes ago, Dan_F said:

Was there any additional shrinkage?

Yes, couple of cm in length but the waist didn’t get any worse thank goodness 

11 minutes ago, aho said:

Team upsize/oversize for life! Comfort is king

Yeah I'm kissing comfort goodbye for the next eighteen months

Wondering if that waist will permanently change the location of any internal organs?

1 minute ago, BionicEye said:

#67 more than happy with the fit 

Yay! Found my inverse bag twin

(Mine are the other way around, which means my number is very hard to read. HOPING the pocket bag fades and the number doesn't, so it comes out like some sort of double stealth arc)

Another reason for one wash & hem people to wash before kickoff:

Just now, Maynard Friedman said:

I’m reading this, in my head, in the voice of David Attenborough!

Yeah, that's the one

He's covered all the other animals now, I reckon? Time for a 6-part series about denim obsessives

5 minutes ago, mandel9000 said:

Have you other one washers washed again or plan to do so?

I just did that in the interests of science (!) and to force me to not wear them

the leg shrunk a couple of cm. The waist was about the same, although maybe that's cos my belly threatened it when I tried them on earlier

Might be worth a wash to shift any leftover shrink?

2 hours ago, tongtommy said:

I have no issue at all with the (waist) sizing and now I'm afraid that maybe I should go with 30, I hope this pair won't stretch that much, cheers!

That rare and exotic beast, the Upsizer, raises its head in the middle of a huge flock of Accidental Downsizers

Just now, Mtvare said:

Something seems to have gone wrong with the raw pairs, given that there seem to be very few fit issues with the OW but a lot (and significant ones) with the raw.

I'd guess the denim and cut are the same though? So it's maybe just down to the washing?

Maybe the TCB wash is gentler. I'm tempted to wash my OW to see how it ends up after my usual routine. 

They were on the very edge of what I could put on, and smaller than the OW size chart. But they have already given a bit in the waist just taking the pics. I think they'll stretch in the waist, and I hope the rest stays just as it is. Just not sure if they'll keep shrinking, is all, but that's one for the future.

Also: massive thank you to all those who made it happen.

2 hours ago, volvo240thebest said:

Lovely muffin tops everyone

Muffin fadez FTW

38 minutes ago, CSL said:

I did it tonight. Hand sewing. Not the neatest but hopefully no one will ever have their face that close to my bum...

Man, this is really raising the bar, nice one

50 minutes ago, Duke Mantee said:

Thankfully someone’s picked up on my humour ... I was starting to worry

I think I'll be reinstating rationing so I can fasten the top button.

2oz of butter a week? That's a nice slice of toast, normally?!

5 minutes ago, Paul T said:

My number seems to have changed from  #14 to #125.

Maybe it's stolen 1 from everyone's waist measurement?