Happy Jeans - Tcb 20s contest thread

[volvo240thebest]

I just thrown my pair in the machine for the first wash, I hoped to hold off more but after 39 days the smell was already unbearable...
will post pics tomorrow...
 

[volvo240thebest]

On 31/5/2017 at 11:47 PM, volvo240thebest said:

Contestant list:

1. Volvo240thebest (Italy) - confirmed W36- L78cm
2. Nycsurfer530 (Usa) - confirmed W31 - L79 cm
3. Foxy (Germany/Russia) - confirmed W33 - L84cm
4. Mandel9000 (Norway) - confirmed W30-L79 (no suspender buttons)
5. Bartlebyyphonics (Uk) - confirmed W38 - L83
6. Bobbo (Sweden) - confirmed W33-L84
7. Gardengnomesinspace (Usa) - confirmed W36-L80cm (no suspender buttons)
8. Jigsaw (Indonesia) - confirmed W33-L79 cm
9. Milehighevertonian (Usa) - confirmed W36-L84cm
10. Capsicum Fired Meat (China) - confirmed W33-L70
11. Not too tight (Usa) - confirmed W36 - L81 cm
12. Cuccoo (Germany) - confirmed W30 - L82 cm
13. FreeCharlesManson (Canada) - confirmed W30 - L88 cm
14. AgingProject (UK) - confirmed W31 - L79 cm
15. Krunky B1 (France) - confirmed W30 - L86 cm-raw
16. Paul T (UK) - confirmed W31 L79 cm
17. Aho (USA) - confirmed W36-L73,5 cm [no suspender buttons]
18. Spunkey (USA) - confirmed W32 L76 cm
19. Inimitable N! - confirmed W40 L39 inches-raw
20. Topgearskin (UK)
21. Edmond (Manila)
22. @mleggettfurniture (USA)
23. IG: @1188sft aka "Uncle Karl" (Japan)
24. IG: @yabuyoshi (Japan)
25. IG @310_h (Japan)
26. IG: @micky_aginglove (Japan)
27. IG: @kameisenpai (Japan)
28. IG: @tt76_insta (Japan)
29. IG: @kumaichan901 (Japan)
30. IG: @1939srw (Japan)
31. IG: @beck19771977 (Japan)
32. IG: @nori.077 (Japan)
33. IG: @marianovittori (Switzerland/Italy)
34. Erk (USA)
35. MasonAlexander (Canada)
36. Broark (USA)
37. IG: @nowv (New Zeland)
38. Srudy/ Suzie IG: @denimbitch (USA)
39. Ms Buena (Manila)
40. Vic Basa (Manila)
41. Mikee Fuentes (Manila)
42. Elmer Sentilanosa (Manila)
43. Kevin Yapjoco IG: @kevinyapjoco (Manila)
44. IG: @yass1973 (Japan)
45. IG: @kiriyamaworks (Japan)
46. IG: @makoto_1970 (Japan)
47. IG: @zennosuke2467 (Japan)
48. IG: @121nayuta (Japan)
49. IG: @hofungfungfung (Hong Kong)

 

yet another update, one more contestant from Hong Kong and yet another denim dudette from Japan. Now we should be settled!

[nycsurfer530]

5 hours ago, volvo240thebest said:

yet another update, one more contestant from Hong Kong and yet another denim dudette from Japan. Now we should be settled!

But we're just one away from 50, can't be settled

[aho]

Blurry but pretty accurate update after my umpteenth wash

 

 

Edited January 16, 2018 by aho

[srudy]

45 minutes ago, aho said:

Blurry but pretty accurate update after my umpteenth wash

Jesus!  Wait for us second round folks!!!! 

[Uncle Karl]

12 hours ago, volvo240thebest said:

もう一つのアップデート、もう一つ香港からの出場者、さらに日本からのデニム・デュデット。今私達は解決すべきです！

It seems that the number of contestants from Japan will increase slightly. Thank you for creating lists.

[garden gnomes in space]

TCB 20's making things glamorous.  We did a family photo shoot a couple weekends ago and despite what you see, both myself and my daughter were not having it.  Weather was shit, we were cold and tired...basically any excuse an over privileged American could think up could apply....

Edited images so Im not sure color accuracy applies here.  

Also, this is a screenshot because Im lazy and didnt download the images.  

getting to this location you walk past a sign saying this is mountain lion habitat.  All I was thinking at the time was it would be very inconvenient if we had to deal with a huge cat... 

Edited December 17, 2017 by garden gnomes in space

[volvo240thebest]

Day 38, 1 soak 1 wash, post wash pics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 15, 2018 by volvo240thebest

[Cucoo]

All the cool kids do it so I gave mine a wash today, too  Here's two pre wash pics since they're still drying. I'm blown away how there's a phone fade on the left butt pocket, I don't sit on my phone and only put it in that pocket when standing or walking around, I have never gotten a phone fade before I bet those jeans will be plain white in 18 months.

Edited January 16, 2018 by Cucoo

[volvo240thebest]

yeah they loose their indigo so quick that I'll make sure to not overwash, I look forward to see Aho's jeans in 12 months haha!

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying to read on IG what the Japanese dudes write, some of them are making an effort to write captions both in Japanese AND English. Curious to see that using "glue" (which I guess it's some sort of liquid starch) on the inside of jeans seems to be a quite popular routine to maximise the creases... I've tried once to pimp up my creases with normal starch and wasn't very satisfied with the results, I guess I won't try to do this on the 20s and just keep going the natural way, but I will make some more experiments in the future... also dunno why but I don't feel like a 20s pair calls for extra dramatic creases, I think it will look better with a more natural approach. But I'd love to try the glue thing the way japanese do on a 50's 60's pair.
@Uncle Karl what kind of product is this glue? Do you make it at home or you just buy it like normal starch??? Hope google translate will work for this haha!

Edited December 17, 2017 by volvo240thebest

[Uncle Karl]

2017/12/18（午前12時38分）、volvo240thebestが言った：

ええ、彼らは人間のジーンズを12ヶ月で見ることを楽しみにしています。

一方、私は日本人の人たちが何を書いているのかをIGで読むことを楽しみにしています。そのうちのいくつかは、日本語と英語の両方でキャッシングを書いて努力をしています。があるのは、ジーンズの内側にある「糊」（液体澱粉のようなものだと思います）を使用することです、折り目を極限にする非常に一般的なルチンであるようです...私は一度、通常のデンプンと結果に非常に満足していなかった、私は20年代にこれをやろうとはしないだろうと思う、自然な方法を続ける、私は将来にいくつかの実験を行きます...また、私は20代のペアーが余分な劇的なものを必要とするような気がしないので、より自然なアプローチで見栄えが良くなると思います。しかし、私は50年代の60年代のペアで日本人のように接着剤を試して みんなと思っています
@カールをどういうものなのですか？あなたは自宅でそれを作って、それと普通のデンプンのようにそれを購入するのですか？このハハのためにgoogle翻訳がうまくいくことを願っています！

 

Edited January 25, 2018 by Uncle Karl

[Iron Horse]

This sounds like back when people were trying to starch their jeans. 

[jigsaw]

tried it once and it is unwearable, i think i put to much starch i made myself that time and feel a bit disgusted and throw them in the trash immediately  

and guys just wondering is the the first ever japanese denim contests internationally with the japanese contestant??? 

 

 

[Capsicum Fried Meat]

Can't imagine there are so many contestants in this contest at the beginning of this project. 

[Uncle Karl]

Can you show me starch?

[Foxy2]

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/23486/Traditional-Laundry-Starch-500g

see Clothing or Laundry Starch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch

[bartlebyyphonics]

nice updates all: hoping to postpone my immanent wash deadline through skin/cloth barrier of thermals... great looking crinkles @aho how is the leg of the garment doing?

[and then, with bumping as intention: hoping not thread overstuffing...]

a jumbled lifework update list arranged according to temporal sequence rather than thematics... handiworking; some nakiri sharpening (other things of my japanological interests), mirror edges, blacksmith finishes, steel types (blue, white, aogami, shiro-ko, shirogami) cat bowls and unseasonal dressed salads

>would be very interested to see other steel hardware from @Uncle Karl if possible; saws, chisels and the like…

jeans-wise; losing suspensions, belting, drooping and double cuffing, encountering thom gunn’s elizabethan metrical almost-modernism, then punched in the ear for my troubles (punch harder you say), close-encounters with crystal palace antenna, built in 1956, a mini-eiffel nestling among victorian ruins

more cuffs, more fit-pix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 18, 2017 by bartlebyyphonics

[Uncle Karl]

37 minutes ago, Foxy2 said:

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/23486/Traditional-Laundry-Starch-500g

衣類または洗濯澱粉を参照してください：

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch

Wow! ! It is starch, is not it! ! ! ! Thank you for showing me! Thank you! Do you mix it with water moderately?

[Foxy2]

personally, I don't use it...

[Cucoo]

Back in my 20s  Posing with the Christmas tree I bought with my own two hands!

[mandel9000]

Did another wash, only a couple of weeks after the last one, but after wearing the 20s everyday during my quite active vacation and falling in the woods a couple of times, it was due. I haven't measured yet but I do believe they shrunk a little more, plus the patch said thank you and good night (it looked more or less brand new up until this wash). I think this is a) because one of the machines in the laundry goes harder than the others, and/or b) I was distracted when I did the settings and accidentally chose 60 degrees.

Indoor flash photography is a bit hit or miss for me, mostly the latter, but I think this came out pretty true to colour. Wear is really starting to show at this point and I'm exciiiiited.

[nycsurfer530]

Nice contrast already! I washed mine twice in the machine initially and thought I got all the shrink out but then after my first wash after wear (3rd overall) they shrank even a little more. I was too surprised though- that seems to happen with all my jeans from tcb. 

[bartlebyyphonics]

^^ &. ^^^

woohoo

happiness for xmas jollies and wear show! flash is always good for bringing out highlights! (60 degrees will def. get that extra shrink out!) r.i.p. to the patch...

some homemade xmas lumps submerged in our tree as statement of affinity to all our labours

Edited December 18, 2017 by bartlebyyphonics

[Uncle Karl]

2017/12/18（午後9時19分）、bartlebyyphonicsが言った：

素敵なアップデートすべて：サーマルの肌/布のバリヤーを通して私の内在的な洗濯の締め切りを延期することを望んで...すごく見苦しい髪の毛  はいかがでしますか？

[それで、意図的にぶつかり合って：糸が詰まっていないことを望んで...]

テーマではない時系列に沿って配置された混乱したライフリスト更新リスト... handiworking; 鏡の縁、鍛冶屋の仕上げ、スチールタイプ（青、白、青木、白子、白神）猫のボウルと季節外のドレッシングサラダ

> 可能でありか@Uncle Karlから他のスチールハードを見るために非常に興味があります。ソー、チゼルなど...

ジーンズに賢い; 1956年に建てられたクリスタール・パレス・アンテナとの近い接遇遇、ミニエフェル（小エッフェル塔）との緊密な出会いがあります。ビクトリア朝の遺跡に囲まれた

より多くのμ口、よりフィット感 - pix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

日本の台所ナイフですか？また、私が住んでいる「日本の高知」の「土佐カトラリー」のように見えます！

Edited January 25, 2018 by Uncle Karl

[Iron Horse]

13 hours ago, Uncle Karl said:

Wow! ! It is starch, is not it! ! ! ! Thank you for showing me! Thank you! Do you mix it with water moderately?

Mix it with very warm water, put in a spray bottle. Wash your clothes, then spray the starch on and then iron the clothes.

You can find lots of examples of starching collars up until the 1920s, for example:

A tutorial from Sinead O'Connor:

 

[Uncle Karl]

1 hour ago, Iron Horse said:

非常に温かい水と混合し、スプレーボトルに入れてください。あなたの服を洗ってから、澱粉をスプレーしてから服を脱ぐ。

あなたは、1920年代まで、デンプン掛けの襟の例をたくさん見つけることができます：

Sinead O'Connorのチュートリアル：

 

Thank you for showing me!

[Foxy2]

Yesterday - last day at work!

Today - on the way to the Small Isles!

an early stopover at Heathrow...

[volvo240thebest]

^ beautiful! If you go to Eigg make sure to say hello to Gabe from me. He works in the brewery when he's not touring.

[Uncle Karl]

私が愛しているツールです。チゼル、飛行機、ハンマー、預金、鋸、電気鋸、電気ドライバー...私は彼らを大事にしています。

 

 

Edited January 25, 2018 by Uncle Karl

[volvo240thebest]

^ too tight hahaha!

Here's my post wash fit, indeed they seem to have shrunken a bit more. I may remove one cuff now.