Bunching at knees?

[emaze]

I have a pair of Samurai S0710WX export model

which are bunching up in the front of my knees & are sticking out a bit much. How can I get rid of this? Should I hem my length some more & shorten the overall length? I've hot soaked them twice already to shrink them down. The size of my waist fits great, so I don't believe I sized incorrectly on these. These jeans are probably their slimest fit compared to the rest of the models by Sammy...

[cheapmuthafukr]

just wear them... it will drape better with time and wear

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i would either:

encourage the stacks at the ankle to relieve the knee-bunching

or

cuff 'em dano

[greentea]

im all for knee bunching

[emaze]

ok sounds good... thanks

[greentea]

youll get some nice fades with those bunches.

[2000dB]

I'm with greentea on this one. Knee bunches look great IMO.

[emaze]

I have no issues really with knee bunches but there was just a huge amount of denim material sticking out in the front of my knee. & it look akward because of the slim cut... Slim on my ankles and thighs but then on the knee it's like poofing out alot...

[emaze]

and like cheap said with normal wear it should drape down eventually, but won't this then displace and lower all my honey comb's from the back of my knee?

[LordOak]

you have nothing to worry about. I think it may just be you looking down at your jeans that makes it look odd to you. your point of view is not the same as people that might be looking. In the pic that you posted it looks fine.

the knee bunching is just a natural part of wearing fitting jeans.

[mizanation]

i've seen those jeans on you in person and they look great. over time, they will definitely loosen up.

if it makes you feel any better, there are now machines in japan the actually create knee bulge to accurately reproduce worn jeans.

[emaze]

Thanks Miz for the vote of confidence..... I was gonna go to the javits center to the tech show and buy one of those japanese robots. You know the ones that can walk up and down stairs. Gonna rotate my 3 pairs of raw denims on it, & make it climb my walkup apt...maybe I'll even use it for the denim experiment contest, is that allowed?

[mizanation]

haha!!! a completely useless robot that just wears-in jeans. technology is great.

[greentea]

and like cheap said with normal wear it should drape down eventually, but won't this then displace and lower all my honey comb's from the back of my knee?

yeah it will displace as time goes as you live with it,but will continue to make new fades where it applies as long as you keep wearing them. just let the jeans do its thing.like ron popeal once said "set it and forget it"

[emaze]

ok cool, thanks everyone for easing my mind a bit, I was going stir crazy looking at every possible reflecting surface to see if my jeans were looking akward or not? I wasn't sure if it was something weird going on with the Samurai cut?

-much appreciation

[LordOak]

yeah it will displace as time goes as you live with it,but will continue to make new fades where it applies as long as you keep wearing them. just let the jeans do its thing.like ron popeal once said "set it and forget it"

Set it and forget it... thats great.

its exactly what your supposed to do. I think alot of people have overlooked this step.

[horriblyjollyjinx]

no, that looks wack, hem them.

[emaze]

I really don't think it's a hemming issue on these sammy's? I really feel like they were actually cut weird or maybe I just need to give them more time to wear in...

[Kasper]

Thanks Miz for the vote of confidence..... I was gonna go to the javits center to the tech show and buy one of those japanese robots. You know the ones that can walk up and down stairs. Gonna rotate my 3 pairs of raw denims on it, & make it climb my walkup apt...maybe I'll even use it for the denim experiment contest, is that allowed?

you're laughing but i almost convinced 2 friends of mine at engineering school to built to kind of lower body robot that simulate walking and squating to wear jeans for some kind of school contest (they even manage to get enough money from their school). they ended up switching to some dumbass thing that help handicaped ppl doing whatever cause they thought people wouldn't understand (helping handicaped ppl is great, but a robot that wear jeans would have been much cooler...)

[emaze]

I tried pulling the leg down and it just looks like there was extra material at the knee? Causing these jeans to poof out on the knee. Does anyone else own a pair of these export models???

[mizanation]

emaze, i think you're the only one who has them, my man.

a jean wearing robot sounds like a good idea. any mechanical engineers here? i could help with the artificial intelligence programming.

i worked on a robot in college, but all it would do is go around the computer lab and bug people.

[stuntastic]

I have the same "problem" with my lees...

As time passes, your jeans will loosen up... They slowly stick out less wen standing up...

But sitting down for a long time will start the bunching again...

My cousin asked me if I was wearing knee pads... hah.

[tigger]

I found the worst thing for knee bunching was wearing wet denim just washed. Did this with a pair of LVC 1955s and it took ages to straighten them out, so wearing in the bath is fine but watch out for the knee bends. ;)

[__3xL]

stuff the calves with towels and beat them silly ..

[rnrswitch]

The knee bunching, I would assume, is from two things: the excessive creasing behind the knees, and stretched denim actually on the knees. If you sat with these while they were damp it is probably a bit of both. You can get rid of some of the bunching by spraying some water on the knee area that needs to shrink. I have done this with many of my jeans and it works just fine.

If you don't want to do that, cuff the jeans so that the cuff isn't resting on your shoes. This will encourage the jeans to drape a bit more than they currently are and the weight of the jeans will tend to straighten out the knee a bit. I highly doubt samurai cut these jeans so that the knee bunched up on purpose.

[prufrock]

the only way to NOT get that is to have the pants drape like dress pants. any pair of jeans unless they are skin tight will bunch. just live with it man, its part of the look. those jeans are sick regardless.

[tanner68]

The knee bunching will disappear with wear and time.

Your jeans need to get strectched out and worn in, and the part below the knee gets the least wear and thus takes longest. On the other hand, the knee and upper legs get plenty of wear. In time your pants will drape better. Just consider this part of the process and don't do anything drastic like hemming them in order to get rid of the bunching. Your photo illustrates your problem well, and it will go away if you keep wearing your jeans. And by any chance, did you put these jeans on wet and do some knee bends or something?