Heavyweight Denim Championships 2013 - 2015 - Official Thread

[Bobbo]

So many crazy pairs of denim in this round of HWDC. Real happy I'm not one of the judges. 

[Max Power]

Sooo...we're getting close to the judging now, right? Would be cool if there would be a set timeframe when the winners are announced (just like back then on the IHF when they did the draw).

Edited April 28, 2015 by Max Power

[Megatron1505]

Judging starts on Friday and will take 3 weeks. Winners will be announced on June 1st.

[louisbosco]

fingers crossed!!

[nizzel55]

So many great pairs. All great in their own ways. I would have a hard time to pick just one winner. I am glad I am not judging this.

Best of luck all contenders that made it to the end. You are all winners in my book.

It has been very inspiring to follow the progress here and over at the IH forum.

Edited April 28, 2015 by nizzel55

[louisbosco]

yeah well said. i guess what's important is that we thoroughly enjoyed the journey!

[greathoudini]

I finally found some time to shoot my final submission pics. I'll sort out the pictures as soon as possible and post a final update tonight or tomorrow

[FLDenim211]

Guess I need to get some photos up, I have been waiting as long as possible

[greathoudini]

Xpost with the finale update thread:

Final update for HC-IR-10 Oldblue co heavyweight denim.

21oz before, 23 after soak would put these in the super heavyweight division.

The start:

Fit pics:

And after:

Full pics front and back pics:

Edited April 29, 2015 by greathoudini

[greathoudini]

Details:

Unfortunately I only had my phone to take the pictures, so the quality of pictures depends a lot on light and stuff

One of my favorite features: the (not so) hidden arcs and the (extremely thick) leather tab:

[greathoudini]

Details continued:

Some more total pics:

And the inside

Fading of the selvedge inside:

The combs almost coming through:

Repair work on backside:

And probably my favorite feature, the frontpocket fading:

[greathoudini]

Favorite pictures wearing the jeans and some progress pictures while wearing:

Visited Antwerpen a couple of times:

Couple months in:

One of the first challenges:

Wearing them hypebeast style

They could still do this after more than a year:

And to get some more progress I hired someone to fade my jeans while I wasn't wearing them:

More pictures coming in later today or tomorrow.

[unders]

Those pocket bags are quality!

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Thank you!

Mega: that's not a bad idea to wear them alongside my DWC-pair, but I'm not wearing these that much anymore so I don't know.

Would be hardcore to see them crying and begging for their life and fighting every day against their own death at your legs

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Awesome updates from greathoudini as well.

 

And yeah it will be veeeeeeerrrrrrrryyyyyy hard to judge all those beauties!!!!!!!!

[Netleyhunter]

Amazing denim for sure, going to miss coming on here and seeing all the updates from people.

[greathoudini]

If there are more than 25 final submissions I will eat my jeans.....though not the new Sammies as they would break my teeth.

I hope you're hungry mega!

Edited May 1, 2015 by greathoudini

[Max Power]

Went to the most crowded cultural event in Nuremberg. Hundreds of activities and art project. But also good beer, lighting and nice cars.

[Max Power]

Edited May 3, 2015 by Max Power

[Wörn75]

Great Onis, BOF! I always loved the blue rain colour.

 

I decided to start another big project in my contest pair.

 

Holy sh*t Max!!! That's gonna' be an incredible back piece. Be sure to keep us updated on the progress.

 

^ And the photos above are amazing!

 

Jeans look great too!

 

Max for the WIN!

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Impressing updates Flo aka Max Power!!

[KrisB]

Fck yeah max!

[Max Power]

Last lazy day: having some franconian beer in the shade before it's back to work (for two days).

Edited May 4, 2015 by Max Power

[cander49]

Believe it or not, I'm still wearing my trashed pair. I played my first disc golf tournament in them last week and won the first-time competitor category. My prize was more discs. Haha. A few more into the 80-ish that I already have is always welcome.

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Believe it or not, I'm still wearing my trashed pair. I played my first disc golf tournament in them last week and won the first-time competitor category. My prize was more discs. Haha. A few more into the 80-ish that I already have is always welcome.

 

 

Awesome to know that your jeans are still crying at your legs.

My 25 oz jeans just passed wear day 740 in a row now. And their fight against their own death is getting tougher from day to day ha ha

[dingo]

I still wear mine too… As I mentioned in the final submissions thread, they still have a lot of life in them, and I do not plan to lay them aside just because the contest is over! They´re still my pair of jeans for the weekends and evenings in the pub.

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Great news dingo that you also keep your jeans busy.

Rock them hard for ever.

I try to burn my jeans down to hell and let's see if they can made it to wear day 1000

[mpukas]

Ruedi - are you ever gonna post some pics of your jeans? We'd all love to see them! 

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Ruedi - are you ever gonna post some pics of your jeans? We'd all love to see them! 

Will try to post some pics next week.

I'm too busy since 1 month because of a heart attack of my office colleague, so too much work in my geographers job

[Max Power]

Just received my HDC2 prize - a very nice 32 oz tote bag with super thik leather patch and belt straps. Thanks to N&F and the HDC2 crew for making it happen!