HWDC2- FINAL SUBMISSIONS THREAD

[Megatron1505]

 

So here we are almost at the end of the journey, and quite a journey it has been. 

 

This thread is set up for the sole purpose of contestants submitting their final images of their worn denim for judging, please do not post comments in this thread as cluttering may complicate the judging process. Contestants should submit the following information and pictures to allow the judging process to be as smooth and fast as possible.

 

-          Brand and model of jeans.

-          Weight category (heavy or super heavy).

-          Full front pic of your jeans.

-          Full back pic of your jeans.

-          Any detail pics you feel show the finest details of your jeans wear and fade.

-          A selection of your favourite pictures of your jeans from the last 2 years.

 

Additional details

 

All submissions must be made by April 30^th at the absolute latest, no submissions made after this date will be considered.

 

Judging will commence on May 1^st and winners announced by June 1^st.

 

Judges decisions and selections will be final.

 

The winners will be put in contact with our generous sponsors to receive their prizes.

 

Best of luck to all, and thank you for your contributions over the last 24 months. You have all been absolutely incredible.

[cander49]

Samurai 710, 19oz (heavyweight category).

 

Final submission! It's been a great two years! I got engaged, traveled all over the US and to Africa, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest freestanding mountain at 5895 meters (every step in these jeans), hiked a bunch of other mountains, skied over 100 times (every time in these jeans), went for runs in the jeans a couple dozen times when I didn't have shorts handy, and completed the vast majority of my PhD, despite looking ridiculously unprofessional over the past few months with my underwear showing through the rips on the thighs. Haha.

 

Looking back over the 2 years, what's most striking to me about the jeans 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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2015 by cander49

[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. I should thank my wonderful fiancee for repairing them in about 2 dozen different ways between months 12 and 18, or they might not have made it the full term.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right before last wash:

Edited April 1, 2015 by cander49

[cander49]

Progress of the front over time 1: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Front over time part 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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Fit over time, continued: 

 

Dog being weird. Haha:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Favorite pics in my jeans:

 

Jeans almost getting their first wash courtesy of skiing across a pond. One of the first of ~105 ski days in them:

 

Success on take 2:

 

Salt Flats:

 

 

Hiking in Mill Creek Canyon:

 

Brother preparing to take pics of me in my jeans while visiting Utah:

 

Waiting for ski season to start back up:

 

Taking the dog swimming. SLC, UT:

 

Edited March 30, 2015 by cander49

[cander49]

Favorite pics in my jeans 2:

 

Hiking in City Creek Canyon:

 

Hike in Usa River, Tanzania:

 

Chilling with a donkey in Tanzania:

 

Getting through a technical portion of the climb up Kilimanjaro. I wore my jeans every step of the way up and down the world's tallest freestanding mountain (admittedly I had snowpants on top on summit day, as it was freeeeeeezing):

 

 

Stella Point, Kilimanjaro, on the way back down, after taking snow pants off:

 

 

Uhuru Peak, Kilimanjaro with jeans under snowpants:

 

With our crew on Kilimanjaro:

 

Holding up the mountain myself:

 

Arusha National Park, Tanzania:

 

[cander49]

Favorite pics in my jeans part 3:

 

Hiking boots comparison a few days before starting up Kilimanjaro:

 

Lacing up my boots in preparation of climbing Grandeur Peak to propose to my then-girlfriend-now-fiancee on top of the mountain:

 

Disc golf in Moab:

 

Repairs!!! Forgot to show this originally, so I'm adding it here to avoid making another post. I counted 29 total repairs to the jeans, but I'm sure I'm missing at least one or two. Some are really subtle, while others are much more obvious.

 

Crotch front:

 

Crotch back: 

 

That time when my left front pocket fell off. This wasn't really machine workable with our machine at this point, so it was handstitched back on, which took forever.

 

Subtle stitch reattachment, although it blew out again and I didn't bother to fix it the 2nd time:

 

Ran out of blue thread. Haha:

 

There are 9 separate repairs visible in this photo, if you know where to look: 

 

Preparing pocket patches:

Edited April 1, 2015 by cander49

[cander49]

Coolest places visited in the jeans:

 

Salt flats (picture of my brother taking pictures):

 

Alta, UT (many, many times). Photo by brother when he was in town visiting:

 

Snowbird, UT (over 100 times in the last 2 years):

 

Brighton, UT (many times):

 

Also from Brighton. I skied this exact spot yesterday, hiking out of Alta Ski Resort... Wish I had thought to take photos in winter.

 

A ton of concerts:

 

Moab, UT (photo by brother on recent visit):

 

Arusha National Park, Tanzania:

 

Same as above:

 

Fiancee + sunrise at 19,000'. Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania:

Edited March 30, 2015 by cander49

[cander49]

Oops, forgot to post progress of the back over time:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cander49]

Progress of the back over time 2:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm glad to have participated with so many cool competitors. I ended up taking a lot more pictures than I might otherwise have done, so this contest really helped me log everything that I did over the last 2 years. Good stuff. Thanks to the judges for taking the time to look over everyone's jeans!

[Max Power]

Max Power

 

Samurai 500XX Naniwa Special (Akidou limited Edition) 19 oz

 

Heavyweight

 

1. Final Update

Edited March 31, 2015 by Max Power

[Max Power]

1. (cont)

 

 

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[Max Power]

2.) Front

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[Max Power]

3.) Back

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[Max Power]

4.) Personal favorites

 

Met some great people and made new friends (if you look closely, you can see almostnice, JCMx800, Dr. Pat, Blue_Nemo and probably some others)

Went to a few livegigs and met Tegan&Sara and the awesome Nate Newton

Had my jeans chainstitched at DC4. Great guys and missed much.

Did some travelling (though I didn't take them to the bigger trips I did these years)

Edited March 31, 2015 by Max Power

[Max Power]

4.) (cont)

One of the best things that happened - my little niece is well, after weeks in the hospital.

And now...hopping on to the next contest. See you there.

Sorry for the huge post, but it felt appropriate for a 2 year contest.

Edited April 13, 2015 by Max Power

[BrownMetallic]

HC-SF-109

HEAVYWEIGHT

Samurai JIN 170z

s0110xj

Part 1: FIT Evo

I've had my Jins for about a year prior to the contest. 'Future-sized to a W34 [sU1]. 'LUVed the unique texture/weave of the denim__ the mid-rise & relaxed straight cut were a plus. However, the [rider] back pocket placement was not really to my liking, so i put them away after a week's wear.

'Been procrastinating on a plan to re-do the pockets until HWDC2 got me to finally follow through.

Re-positioning the back pockets similar to my Yamato 001__ w/c meant moving each pocket a tad lower & closer to the center =the back seam [ie, about an inch, diagonally] has made a world of difference, IMO ... apologies, if i offended the LeePro & WranglerPro lovers out there









Part 2: Jeans Evo

2y/o= 12mos effective wear= 5 washes + a final double cold wash for the "finals" evo shots__ the double wash amazingly bumped up the fade contrast











Edited April 30, 2015 by BrownMetallic

[BrownMetallic]

HC-SF-109

HEAVYWEIGHT

Samurai JIN 170z

s0110xj

Part 2: Continued ...




















Part 3: The Travelling Jeans

http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/brownmetallic/JINfinalTRAV.jpg Edited April 30, 2015 by BrownMetallic

[Ali_Ilegali]

Indigoroots is down and most people are not on darahkubiru

So this is my first post on Sufu

 

HC-IR-01 Ali_Ilegali Sage Marcher 18oz

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ali_Ilegali]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ali_Ilegali]

 

 

 

 

Favorite:

 

 

[everyinchofgod]

Final submission pics:

Iron Heart SEXIHXLSXA13 23oz, super heavy category

Edited April 5, 2015 by everyinchofgod

[everyinchofgod]

Random pics:

Edited April 5, 2015 by everyinchofgod

[Chubacca]

HC-SF-76
Final Submission 

Flathead 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Chubacca]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[givemefive]

Samurai 710, 19oz (heavyweight category).

 

Final submission! It's been a great two years! I got engaged, traveled all over the US and to Africa, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest freestanding mountain at 5895 meters (every step in these jeans), hiked a bunch of other mountains, skied over 100 times (every time in these jeans), went for runs in the jeans a couple dozen times when I didn't have shorts handy, and completed the vast majority of my PhD, despite looking ridiculously unprofessional over the past few months with my underwear showing through the rips on the thighs. Haha.

 

Looking back over the 2 years, what's most striking to me about the jeans 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:

 

 

 

I think these are EXTRA white due to the sun's intensity at elevation.

 

What do you think?

[Bobbo]

Final submission time! I wish I would have worn my Steel Feathers SF0121 more but in the end they were a little too tight and heavy for my liking. So this is what you can do to a a pair of Steel Feathers with 12 months of active wear and around 8-9 washes.

It's been fun as hell though, the challenges definitely pulled this big show in the right direction.