topman selvedge..

[rocker4life]

ok..i've had enough..even topman is making raw selvedge jeans for UK35($44)..anyway what do you guys think??personally i think its a good buy,haven't tried it on yet but it kinda looks good..maybe do something to it.i'm just disappointed that raw denim is just too ubiquitous nowadays.more and more clothing giants now mass-produce selvedge jeans which kinda degrdes them IMO

[sneakeraddict]

to be purely objective, they actually look quite nice and I will check them out in store.

However, I agree that it is annoying that when something is deemed "In", that it appears EVERWHERE on the British high-street, eventually killing it because that particular look becomes so ubiquitous.

[buzzed]

LOLlll raw denim's not special anymore....ima throw all my raw jeans out now!!!!

those jeans look nice for the price by the way..honestly dont see why you're complaining!

[majikero]

i saw a pair of these jeans in a shopping mall here in PI. checked if they're selvedge. the ones here in the Philippines are not selvedge base on the 3 topman/topshop boutiques i went

[viv1984viv]

affordable denim, yeah, i might look in topman now, they do look nice, they are probably selvedge but not quality as i expect selvedge is rapidly becoming an unreliable indicator of quality, what with uniqlo topman and all doing them.

[sneakeraddict]

actually, i just looked at the site, and they are under the 'skinny fit' category, so I'll defo give them a miss.

Probably means they are low rise too.

Oooooops...........!

[rocker4life]

i will probably try them on tomorrow and if i am happy i might get them

[Cue]

my mate has some - they are really nice actually

[vee_dub]

Hey cue how's the fit??

Unlucky you cant get them in Australia :S....

Cheer,

dub.

[Cue]

now, i think he has two pairs (maybe more - they were samples i think, he gets loads of the stuff) ... one is similar to the 47, and the other is slimmer, tapered, but not skin tight ...

hmm, will ask him next time i see him

[xviralx]

doesnt look very skinny to me =X

[Seething Tortoise]

Wasn't there a discussion about this a couple of months ago?

It doesn't seem to have taken off too well.

[Dangydang]

Rise looks a bit low, but those look pretty nice overall.

[rocker4life]

really want some input on how "skinny" it is..

[__3xL]

They don't look skinny at all to me either - unless that is a 38-40 waist pictured ..

[rocker4life]

i think that one is a 36

[majikero]

really want some input on how "skinny" it is..

go to Robinson's galleria, they have a topman shop there... try some on. tell us how they fit. thanks.

[Louis]

even gap is getting in on the selvedge with that new morrison jean they just came out with.

heres the selvedge close up

[__3xL]

^^ that gap denim is el-cheapola stuff ..

The original Gap 1969 was made in Italy and very nice ... 2-3 years ago

[werdtoyourmoms]

"the morrison" has slight distressing, it's starched in the crotch to make your garbage look bigger. wack. why can't they just leave it raw. anyway, the denim felt paper thin. and the selvedge is way gaudy.

[rocker4life]

i just got home after going to topman.i tried it on it fits kinda similar to the APC NS but a bit more "breathable" at the ankles compared to the NS.almost copped it,but i had second thoughts and bought some sale items,might get them next time though

[viv1984viv]

are they shorter than the NS's?

im thinking if they dont bunch up so much they might be worth a pop because the sillouette might be slimmer.

[Seething Tortoise]

Since you can only seem to get them in S R L lengths on the Topman website, I'd assume that the longest inseam is 34".

[rocker4life]

they actually make a 32 inseam..the one i tried was a 28x32

[alitarbegshe]

Errrrr....... Topman have been doing selvedge denim for over three years now, as have Gap with the 1969 range (They actually started out as distributors of levi in the 60's, so you could say they've been doing it from the beginning, lol)

Not too bothered. The mainstream will never bee interested in selvege anyway, too esteoric. And has been mentioned, like natural indigo, selvedge does not necessarily make a better denim,it's just a historical attraction.

Besides, why care? Taking an anti-fasion and elitist stance can be just as bad as being a fashion whore.

My 2 cents.

[Swych]

yeah i saw these jeans 3-4 days ago too (the topman ones)

I don't think they were raw though. Either that or it was just extremely light denim, to the point where i'd just say it was cloth. Or maybe i've just been wearing too much samurai...

[Seething Tortoise]

they actually make a 32 inseam..the one i tried was a 28x32

Yeah, I said the longest inseam they make is 34" going by the typical S R L inseam lengths. With 34" being L, 32" for R and 30" for S.

Anyway, I went to Topman in Leeds yesterday and got my first feel of the selvage and the cuts and washes they had.

I saw a straight leg raw, and a straight leg washed (the former to my suprise) and a skinny fit raw.

The feeling of the jeans was strange, the denim just felt off? The workmanship was poor on certain parts of the jean. Like at the bottom of the fly, the jeans were practically falling apart because the sewing wasn't binding the fly too well.

For the price £35, I think I'd get some if I had the spare change and had nothing better to buy to use as a pair of beaters.

[sneakeraddict]

topman is responsible for dressing the British male under 25 badly. Very badly.

Everything is bleached and shredded to death, from what I can see whenever I walk past the shop window.

As someone said earlier, at least you used to be able to buy Levis there in the 90s, but for some reason they stopped. Probably the only reason to go in.

[rocker4life]

yeah, $44 is a good price for it,fit is a little wierd,501 stf are still a better choice

they dress men badly with all those randome numbers and prints,but the price is what keeps men buying them

[Cue]

it's fine by me, the worse other people dress the better i look