Ooe Yofukuten x S&S: Official Contest Thread 2016

[aho]

Broark, I'll have to get more recs next time around!

 

guthriegking, damn, that's even more pop than my pair!

[givemefive]

gk has galloped into the lead

[mrsmiff]

I'm late to this, but I have selvedge in both pocket bags.  

[Broark]

If any of y'all need food recommendations in Austin I'm your guy, my other hobby besides denim is eating good food and drinking good beer. 

[pudaspriest]

Just about to give these their first real wash, took some pre-wash photos for comparisons sake. Will put up some post wash pics sometime tomorrow. 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2016 by pudaspriest

[guthriegking]

lookin good so far pudas!!

[aho]

Yup, time to start wearing mine harder lol

[tigerstrom]

Nice pudas! Looking forward to the post wash pics!

[pudaspriest]

post wash not a huge difference other than being clean and wearable! Patch has started to become illegible and there is some more bright blue popping through. Tried to get some close ups of the color changes in various places.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[oomslokop]

thanks for that pudas, it's not like i haven't totally regretted not joining in the contest! 

[aho]

Damn...only about one month of wear on those, can't believe it!

[pudaspriest]

Yeah I am surprised at how much evo these are showing already, I haven't even been wearing them everyday. The shade of blue that is showing up is really amazing imo, really loving this pair more and more as time goes on.

[tigerstrom]

Just threw my pair in the washing machine! Some minor evo is seen but nowhere near pudas pair! But I'm sticking to my initial plan to wash them once a month!

[aho]

Sorry guys I've gotten behind on updates/posts! 

 

This weekend was a lazy one, resting up a bit since I'm under the weather, however I did walk around downtown a bit...Random shots

And the jeans:

 

haven't been washing them all that often as I want to set the creasing first before going all out. These are probably the fastest fading jeans I've owned which makes me excited to think about where we'll all be in the next few months, and where we'll all end up by the end.

[garden gnomes in space]

The stitching on my back wallet side pocket are starting to go.  This is an old pic, the stitching is almost gone at that wear point.

 

[volvo240thebest]

too much progress for such a little time! I am green of envy at you guys, have fun with these outrageously fast fading puppies!

[aho]

Had time for more close ups today...Just noticed how much the sear is wearing in faster for me than anywhere else, but I truly do a lot of sitting lol

iPhone fade

hint of whiskers

waistband starting to crinkle up from my belt

wondering if the yoke will shrink more with further washes

 

 

and new shoes for kicks!

[guthriegking]

Damn! Lookin really good aho. How many washes so far?

[Sugar Mountain]

Man, you've been doing some Styleforum-level copping of shell cordovan Aldens lately!

[alvin_cheong]

Haha, Aho is on shell cordovan run.

[aho]

^lol luckily (?) the wait lists I'm on for more shell models have me pretty far down on the queue so I probably won't get another for at least 1.5 years...As far as the jeans, I'm only at 3 washes so far!

[aho]

Not sure where to post this, but AMAZING video with a ton of heavy hitters:

 

[mrsmiff]

^lol luckily (?) the wait lists I'm on for more shell models have me pretty far down on the queue so I probably won't get another for at least 1.5 years...As far as the jeans, I'm only at 3 washes so far!

 

 

I'm trying to get shell make-ups for the shop right now...  slow going.   We're also doing shell with Trickers, but those will be... really goddamn expensive.

 

Here's my updates - 3 washes on mine as well, and I wear them nearly every day.

 

Good light at Gimpo International to catch the phone fade:

 

On the porch this morning in Sangenjaya:

 

[alvin_cheong]

@mrsmith the jeans are looking real good....

Edited May 23, 2016 by alvin_cheong

[mpukas]

...We're also doing shell with Trickers, but those will be... really goddamn expensive....

 

Now this will be interesting! 

[FeloniousMonk]

Sorry that this post is much delayed, but work and yadda yadda yadda. Time for an update, and this is a pretty long one. Will try to make them a bit shorter, sweeter, and more frequent in the future.

 

 

This has been a pretty monumentally crappy spring in New York, and even the nicest days for strolling through the park were pretty overcast and a bit gloomy. But cherry blossoms make everything better, so that's helpful.

 

Got a chance to take a fit pic while out there. This is almost a month old now, so there's been subsequent progress on the fading.

 

Also there was the America's Cup World Series race just off Manhattan this year. This seemed as good an excuse as any to enjoy the grey skies and sneak cava into coffee to-go cups when the cops weren't patrolling the coastline sidewalks. Not sure if those teams are really getting their full $10M value out of the boats, but damn can they move when the wind gets up to speed. Also, they appear pop entirely out of the water due to a submerged third keel, which will really screw with your head the first couple times to see it.

 

 

But as spring was taking way too long to get here, and we were in pretty dire need of a vacation, the girlfriend and I headed off to Tulum in the Yucatan for a long weekend. Just got back Wednesday and I already miss it.

 

Our bungalow was just a few steps from the beach (and she woke up at sunrise way too many days)

 

 

We tried to spend as much time there as possible

 

 

But excellent meals pulled us away. This was a local restaurant on a private beach - there was one quiet hotel at the top of the inlet, then large private homes all along the beach heading down, and finally this restaurant occupying the last several hundred meters of beach, with tables and hammocks arrayed under palm trees at the edge of the sand. Amazing setting, and the best place to kick back with a couple beers, fresh chips and guacamole, and a heaping plate of ceviche.

 

 

The area also had ruins, just on the outskirts of town and running along the ocean, as Tulum was a port city for the Mayans way back when. And numerous sinkholes in the local limestone rock reach down to the (rather high) watertable, so you can bike to spots in the jungle where a staircase will take you 20-30 feet down to go swimming or diving through the natural caves below.

[FeloniousMonk]

Needless to say, this did not result in much wear on my jeans aside from travel out and back. But I gave my pair their third wash this weekend and some blues are definitely starting to show up. That leg twist on the right side is gonna get reallllllll good.

 

There seems to be astonishingly fast wear at the outside back pocket rivet, which looks cool but may just mean I'm sitting super lopsided...

 

And has anyone else noticed that the weird horizontal bars are fading a little faster than the rest of the fabric? I seem to notice it in a couple people's pictures. Here it's pretty visible on my thigh. The normal whiskering pattern is up high in this shot, but then you can see straight lines of exaggerated horizontal fading around the middle. Hopefully that will calm down with more wear and washing, but I'm surprised how long those bars have remained noticeable.

[tigerstrom]

Amazing post!!! I've also noticed the horizontal bars, it's one of the special things on this denim in my opinion!

[beautiful_FrEaK]

This denim is a really fast fading denim with a very interesting fading pattern!

[FeloniousMonk]

Yeah, it's especially nice that the cross-hatching and texture on this denim just seems to have started popping out after a bit over a month of wear. At first the massive contrast between the weft fibers and the very dark warp overwhelmed the slight irregularities, and made it seem like a very uniform denim, a bit boring perhaps. Now that the fabric is starting to lighten up just a little and the warp fibers are getting a little worn and fuzzy, there seems to be more depth. Should get really good with another couple months and more washes.