Happy jeans: TCBxSufu S40s WW2 contest thread

[mandel9000]

Wow, @Uncle Karl! So nice for the cats and also very good looking. I wish I could hire you to do some work in my apartment here in Norway! 

Edited December 22, 2020 by mandel9000

[Uncle Karl]

3 hours ago, scooby said:

@アンクルカール 私が何年も見てきた最高の投稿

Thank you!  I'm very happy

[Uncle Karl]

1 hour ago, mandel9000 said:

ワオ、 @アンクルカール！猫にとってとても素敵で、格好良いです。ここノルウェーの私のアパートで仕事をするためにあなたを雇うことができたらいいのにと思います！ 

Thank you!  Norway is a wonderful country with abundant nature!  I want to do everything I can for a cat.  In the near future, I think I will collaborate with a certain brand to make cat furniture.

[discwork]

Gave 'em a wash after 100 wears.

[CSL]

(Shirt is RMC)

[srudy]

22 hours ago, discwork said:

Gave 'em a wash after 100 wears.

Classic and perfectly faded.

[discwork]

36 minutes ago, srudy said:

Classic and perfectly faded.

Thank you!

[unders]

@discwork Hem job and cuffing on your pair are spot-on. 

[BrownMetallic]

@srudy @unders Agree on both, fade & hem job ... @discwork

Edited December 24, 2020 by BrownMetallic

[tjandaputra]

On 12/23/2020 at 5:55 AM, discwork said:

Gave 'em a wash after 100 wears.

Amazing fit you have there!! surely one of my favorites 

[discwork]

Thanks @unders, @BrownMetallic, @tjandaputra! I spent way too much time calculating the proper hem length when I ordered them. Very happy with the overall fit. 

Edited December 24, 2020 by discwork

[irual]

Happy holidays from Finland!

We rarely have any light at this time of year and my phone camera is crap but the contest jeans are featured here. Hopefully get some better updates of the jeans soon.

[JRendon02]

Trip number 5 through the washer and dryer. One day I’ll do another fit pic. 

[srudy]

1 hour ago, JRendon02 said:

Trip number 5 through the washer and dryer. One day I’ll do another fit pic. 

Pocket bag beauty I’m looking forward to!

[aho]

Just a peak...

 

[Qube]

Little update, nothing crazy here
Congrats everyone, there are some amazing fades !

 

Mackie | A Day's March | UDA-SHI | Uniqlo | TCB 40s | Conv custom

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by Qube

[Frost]

After second wash

 

[mandel9000]

Another month, another wash. This is the fifth, I think, and from now on I'll just throw 'em in the washer every time the dog muddies them up, looks like the creases are well set at this point. I've loaned the good camera to a friend so these are all phone pics, with some contrasty over-compensation for the all-tungsten light in the basement on the photos of full front and back. The color and fade is most accurate in the close-ups. 

Wash crease not as significant as it looks here, phew: 


Repair job coming up:
 

Doggo chillin', listening to Steely Dan: 

 

Edited December 29, 2020 by mandel9000
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[Thanks_M8]

^holy moly! Cheers to the dog-life, I guess

[aho]

Agreed, beautiful pair already @mandel9000! 

[Broark]

Well that's certainly hard to follow! Here's an update on my pair, I'm washing / drying regularly by this point.
Denim is getting nice and grainy.

[JDelage]

Interesting to compare @mandel9000 and @Broark's pairs here. The first has a lot more creases whereas the latter has a softer look.

(It's the first time I get such creases behind the knees on such a wide-is cut.)

[Broark]

It could be a few different factors. I think American washing machines are a bit more harsh on clothing than other parts of the world (or so I have heard).
And I'm probably not as active as Mandel...

[BrownMetallic]

^ . . .  or has deeper denim rotation 

[mandel9000]

The washing machines that I use are very harsh, industrial, and they wreak havoc on my more delicate clothing, but apart from that all of the above is probably true. I can count on two hands (one and a couple of fingers really) the days I haven't worn these jeans since September 1st. I've also walked for a couple of hours each day, often in the woods, and spent a lot of time on the ground training the dog. Well, at least before the endless rain of the last few months began...

Edited December 29, 2020 by mandel9000

[srudy]

@mandel9000 you never disappoint

[Broark]

40 minutes ago, BrownMetallic said:

^ . . .  or has deeper denim rotation 

Caught red handed. 
Honeslty I’ve been wearing these pretty consistently with the occasional week break here and there. The fit is growing growing on me the more these get washed. I wish they were an inch or so shorter.

[Jared_Lee]

@Broark it's not too late for another hem. You've got plenty of life left in the jeans to recover what roping you'll lose. Better to have the length just where you want it than worry about the original hem in my experience. I've re-hemmed a few pairs and been happy with the results.

[Broark]

@Jared_Lee you're not wrong, it's more about actually going and getting them hemmed in my experience that proves difficult for me.
We don't have any good hemming options in Austin anymore unfortunately. I've been wearing them with a small single cuff with a little stacking and it's not too bad. 

[mandel9000]

Same. If I could change one thing, I would make mine 1-2 inches shorter. But alas, no good hemming service to be found here in Norway. I once took another pair to a store that makes and sells Japanese selvage denim, but they just looked at me weirdly when I asked about the machine and the stitching, and in the end they did it exactly the way I would on my own sewing machine, no better or worse.