Heavyweight Denim Championships 2013 - 2015 - Official Thread

[Max Power]

Thanks all!

[BrownMetallic]

FIT Evo:

 

 

[cander49]

Nice jeans. What are those boots in the final pics?

[Netleyhunter]

Fantastic looking denim guys and gals, I will get a few photos in the next couple days here when we get some proper lighting. It's all dark and rainy/snowy here at moment, which doesn't make for the best photos. I will later be submitting some studio photos also for the final judging.

[cander49]

 

Wore the jeans skiing at Deer Valley today. Had to keep snowpants on top of them most of the time... Those giant holes lead to cold legs otherwise! Kind of flat lighting on a tree run... will have final updates soon!

Edited March 25, 2015 by cander49

[BrownMetallic]

Nice jeans. What are those boots in the final pics?

Tricker's ALLAN in Teck Cordovan x Brick Red Dainite [styleforum MTO]

[swiss-jeansfreak]

^^^Cander49 You remind me at my 25 oz IH jeans which enjoyed a lot of skiing this winter season.

But without big holes yet ha ha

[cander49]

A few final adventures in the jeans...

Disc golf in Moab on a ridiculously cool course:

 

Jeans on a cliff edge in Canyonlands:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My brother's shots from our trips to Antelope Island and Canyonlands. You need to click these to blow them up.

 

Bison:

 

 

Sunset:

 

I'll get my final submissions soon!

Edited March 26, 2015 by cander49

[Broark]

Wow, amazing shots. I love that part of the country.

[spitfiredealer]

Awesome pics. 

[Megatron1505]

incredible images

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Impressing shots cander49

[louisbosco]

i'll never forget that one and only time i went to the US in 2006 and visited the canyon. that thing was massive!!

[Wörn75]

Thank you. Indeed, they're close to semiretirement now. Gave them another wash last night and will probably ut wear them occasionally from now on. But as it is the lightest coloured pair I own it will be hard. Most clothes just look & feel better with that pair compared to a completely dark pair.

I totally agree Max. With my well worn pairs all my vintage t-shirts look great but not if I'm wearing a new dark pair. When wearing a new pair I switch over to my collection of new t-shirts.

[mange]

HC-SF-103 Samuari S5000vx 25oz 15th anniv.

 

Final update pics, was lucky and got some unexpected sun yesterday. The color varies a lot depending on background so here is a mix.

 

First the front:

 

 

 

 

[mange]

HC-SF-103 Samuari S5000vx 25oz 15th anniv.

 

The back:

 

 

 

 

[mange]

HC-SF-103 Samuari S5000vx 25oz 15th anniv.

 

And some details:

 

 

 

 

[mange]

HC-SF-103 Samuari S5000vx 25oz 15th anniv.

 

And the fit pics, unfortunately I got a shadow across the thighs that I couldn't get rid of.

 

 

 

[spitfiredealer]

Awesome pair. Love how light the samurai's seem to get all over.

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Mango. sorry mistakingly neg repped you on my IPhone

[mange]

No problem Swiss

[el_toro]

HC-SF-91

 

-S610LX-

march 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[el_toro]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Ok, here goes my final update! I'll make sure I continue to wear them hard for the final 3 days, but I doubt I'll have much change in that time! Looking back over the 2 years, what's most striking to me now is just how little indigo is left, despite only 16 washes, all either by hand or on a gentle wash (all but 1 or 2 with woolite). I went out of my way to not artificially remove indigo by washing, but it's gone from all of this wear anyway. One other thing to keep in mind is that I really worked hard to keep these from falling apart with frequent repairs until ~4 months to go, when I gave up on that, so all of the tearing is just from a few months. Final fit pics part 1:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Those Quoddys have been my most worn shoes over the span of the contest. I've had them for 2 1/2 or 3 years now, and while they're not necessarily the most fashion forward - I wear a plain t-shirt most days, so I'm not very fashion forward to begin with - they're super comfortable and they're still in great shape.

[cander49]

Final pics of the jeans themselves. They were probably more of the typically desired "jawnz" status after somewhere between 12 and 18 months, when they hit max contrast. I've worn them so hard that, at this point, there's just almost no indigo left to show the contrast they originally had. That said, I'm really happy that I managed to stick to these so far past the typical point that people wear denim. Oh, on the note of it being a bit difficult to continue wearing these, yes, my underwear is obviously visible through those thigh holes when I'm walking around. Haha.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2015 by cander49

[cander49]

Progress of the front over time. It's funny how much the color changes depending on length of time since a wash:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2015 by cander49

[cander49]

Progress of the front over time part 2:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Progress of the back over time:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Progress of the back over time 2:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Fit pics over time. It took a couple months for them to break in enough to look good worn, but I really liked how they fit for most of the time:

 

First one is before I put them into a quadruple cuff:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2015 by cander49