Novelty washes

[pacioli]

Ok I know most of you are not fans of pre-washed/distressed denim, but you've gotta admit some washes look really cool.

I'm talking particularly about washes that don't necessarily try to mimic a vintage look.

With that said I've made a deal with a laundry that will do one wash per month for me to showcase on my blog. I just need to tell them what processes I want.

Is there anything you would like to see done? Especially a funky wash you've seen on Japanese jeans and want to see if an American laundry can do it better. I'm open to all ideas and who knows- if we reach a consensus maybe we'll call it the SF wash.

[cheapmuthafukr]

i want to see if a laundry can replicate the eternal 811s and do a convincing job. those and the dior 811 black overdye

[sneakeraddict]

what is your blog address?

(if it is about jeans, that is)

[Chicken]

  cheapmuthafukr said:

i want to see if a laundry can replicate the eternal 811s and do a convincing job. those and the dior 811 black overdye

true. lot of us are after this:

http://denim-gallery.heavy.jp/eternal_811-6.html

[youngluc]

i have a nice pair of gap 1969 vintage line jeans

they were originally 84 dollars and i got them for 12 instead so it was a pretty good deal i'd say hahaha

[pacioli]

I can certainly have the laundry do this wash but it may not come out so nicely if I'm using run of the mill denim from Cone. I might just have them try it to see the results. It may prove the obvious fact that the end product is mostly a reflection of how nice the raw materials are.

Still, any ideas for novelty washes that don't necessarily try to emulate months of wear without wash would be great. For example, we can spray a special formula resin on just the back pockets and wash the crap out of the jeans for what may turn out to be interesting contrast (dark raw feeling and looking back pockets on top of faded jeans). Or we can bleach just the coin pocketing and see how that looks.

The possibilities are endless when you stop trying to make the washes emulate vintage.

BTW, my blog is denimnews.blogspot.com

[Guest Fade to Black]

My personal favorite 'novelty wash' of all time is the black painted blue jeans w/ claw mark by Dior Homme, S/S 03.

[horriblyjollyjinx]

indigo with black overdye, and then distress them to get interesting shades of blue. dont try to emulate wear and honeycombs etc.

[sneakeraddict]

Yeah I agree with JollyJinx.

A pair of raw indigo dyed jeans then dyed again with a non-steadfast black dye (if that exists) so a very nice blue/black jeans are created

[justbrowsing]

i admit that no predistressing looks cool.

[pacioli]

Fade to Black- Do you have any pics?

Regarding the dye- I think a sort of overdye can be done to achieve this. And perhaps add a catalyst to make the dye uneven...do you have pics to illustrate how you think it should look?

[xcoldricex]

helmut lang did some cool shit back in the day.

neighborhood also doesn't go for the vintage look.

[pacioli]

Checking all of that out right now. I decided to see what the laundry can do given a run of the mill fabric and the pictures of the eternal 811's. They think they'll be able to show me pics by today.