MISTER FREEDOM

[jake431]

My girlfriend just bought me a pair of the Mr Freedom jeans for my birthday. I probably could have worn one size smaller, but right now (post soak) I have a good workwear fit. Now I need some Whites Boots to go with them!

One thing I really like about these jeans is the smell - the 50% sugarcane denim has a nice almost sweet smell.

[40ozprophet]

Awesome! please post some pictures if you can. thats quite some birthday present..

[jake431]

Yeah, it was a totally unexpected present, but man was I floored. I will try to get some pictures; I am having a storage issue on my laptop at home, but if I can, I will get some shots uploaded during or after the weekend.

Because there is no yoke on these jeans, even worn loose, there is no hip flare. It's almost a trouser cut. I really like them. It's hard to be unobtrusive in them - if you wear them, people are going to notice. But that's cool. I fade the denim, the denim don't fade me.

-Jake

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Hey Jake

Any pic's of those Mister Freedoms??

[jake431]

Hey Jake

Any pic's of those Mister Freedoms??

No, not yet. Stay tuned though...

-Jake

[cloudhands69]

Here's mine. I have been sick the past few days so I look a little green around the gills.

[mr.invincible]

^ that's clean, pimp

[midnight]

Good fit. They seem to suit you really well. How stiff was the denim when you first bought them?

[jake431]

Cloudhand -

Nice! Did you get your true size? I have a more workewear fit with mine. Yours seem to fit slimmer than mine do.

-Jake

[Charlie Delta]

Same here, fit you really well.

I sized up one from my normal size (my 7161's are a 34 since he didn't make a 33),

I could've easily gone with a 32 for a slimmer fit one these. Not complaining though!

[cloudhands69]

yes, true to size. 30. First I ordered size 28 but there was an error on the website, there were actually no 28s in stock. They woulda been way too tight.

They are pretty slim. Slimmer than I had expected but I am very happy with them. Like you said, Jake, the absence of the yoke eliminated any hip flare which was one of the reasons I had stayed away from more retro styled denim.

Midnight: they were pretty stiff but it's only 11oz denim. I did 2 hot soaks (shorter durations, I was afraid the waistband would tighten up too much) and they are not stiff anymore really. They are pretty itchy though. Kinda like burlap almost. Unfortunately the sugarcane smell went away after the hot soaks.

[midnight]

Cool. They seem like a really good summer jean. If only i could pull them off I would've bought a pair when they first came out. I love all those little details and shit.

[cloudhands69]

I don't really think there's anything to them that would make them difficult to "pull off." I don't like the red bias tape on the hems and I will probably replace them like Cotton Duck has. There is quite a bit of selvage showing which I had my doubts about at first, but I dig it now. The back pockets seem weird and I wouldn't put my wallet in them unless I had a leash attached to it. They are very nice to stick your hands into though! Chambray lined and all. To me they seem like nicely styled workwear jeans. I think if you can wear carhartts, you could totally wear the misterfreedoms.

[jake431]

The part I've found difficult to pull off with them is shoes. Retro style shoes are needed to really sell the look. Mine are pretty loose, but no hip flare. I probably could have gotten 34's, but I am fine with the loose workwear look. Also the extent to which I have to cuff them limits the look - though I'm 5'11", all my height is in my torso, and a 30 inseam means much cuffing!

But they are easy to wear with a t-shirt, and the lighter denim, though yes, it is initially scratchy, is at least excellent for summer.

-Jake

[Charlie Delta]

I do see what you mean with regards to shoes, but I think there are plenty of options still.

With regards to the lenght, as they are not chainstitched and have the bias tape, any tailor should be able to shorten them with ease.

[jake431]

I do see what you mean with regards to shoes, but I think there are plenty of options still.

With regards to the lenght, as they are not chainstitched and have the bias tape, any tailor should be able to shorten them with ease.

They're not chainstitched under the bias tape? That's really great to know!

Normally I wear purcells or boots with them. I have some of the 1946 Converse Re-issues from a couple years ago that would also probably do quite nicely.

For some reason I think if I had a slimmer pair, 34's instead of 36's, I could wear them more easily, but since they fit how they do, I have to do the workwear look.

Any other shoe recommendations for them out there?

-Jake

[Charlie Delta]

Just a quick update, these were so incredibly dirty after my holiday and were literally caked with horse sweat, so they needed another wash.

4th one so far, dark detergent, hang dry etc:

Hmmm, don't think they changed much after the last wash but they needed one anyway

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Looking good Cloudhands, those are quite different than the KMW Rockers that I think I remember you having, maybe not though.

Cotton always looking good, since they didn't change much I am sure they have a ton of life left in them. Any developments on the Peacoat?

Is the fall line up going to have denim in a heavier weight? Really wished I lived in SF so I could go and see it.

[Charlie Delta]

Thanks.

I've been putting as much wear as possible in the Pcoat but it's going fairly slow, nothing to show till another 6 months atleast me thinks. But who knows, it's too warm for lined 14oz denim now anyway.

Winter line will most likely have heavier denim than the summer indeed...

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Ya I can't what for fall to come so I can start to try and break in my coat, I should hopefully get more than six months on it considering Canadian winters.

[cloudhands69]

Looking good Cloudhands, those are quite different than the KMW Rockers that I think I remember you having, maybe not though.

Yeah I usually do a workwear/mil surp type thing at work, and switch to a slimmer type of silhouette after. I've been rotating the KMW with the Warehouse contest jeans, but the WH have faded to a point where you can definitely see that they are very dirty. That's usually when I get tired of wearing the same jeans every day without washing them. I wanted to switch it up with a more repro-ish pair with details that I liked. I don't think they are perfect, but the MisterFreedoms are still pretty amazing.

[Guest frye]

question to cotton duck and bill.

in your fit pic on your mf 7161, how come you guys modified the hem of mf7161? imo the original hem looks more workwear like the one in the magazine.

[Charlie Delta]

Don't get me wrong, and I think I can speak for Bill in this aswell, we were both very fond of the cuffs, however, here's why I had to let them down on mine:

The jeans only came in one length, and well, not everbody has the same leg length obviously...

I simply had to if I wanted to wear the jeans post shrinkage...

[denimdestroyedmylife]

I had the opportunity to handle the SE/SC/MF line at Self Edge last week. I don't have anything new to add, but the clothes are quirky and unmistakably MF. It may be that I have been biased by the ORDO/CD pitch, but the clothes are appropriate for denizens of port cities; maybe costumey on landlubbers. A perfect line for Self Edge, and San Franciscans.

[Charlie Delta]

I'll just say that I decided to go that way with the pics as that was MisterFreedom's concept for that collection (as can be read in his backstory here), and for fall/winter he is indeed following up on that concept.

[kiya]

The fall collection will also be modeled and photographed by the one and only Cotton Duck, but this time, it might not happen in Europe..

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Can there be any insight given to the details of MF's fall jeans?

Found these browsing Rakuten kinda insteresting

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/cansas/sc47163h/

[cloudhands69]

Found these browsing Rakuten kinda insteresting

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/cansas/sc47163h/

They are interesting. Strange how the leg patch has faded out like that. It's made of the same denim, isn't it? Is it just because the fabric is rotated 90 degrees in relation to the rest of the denim? The whole patch is lighter than the rest of the left leg.

[midnight]

Maybe they're sanded or some shit? The wear looks strange.

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Ya I was thinking that the wear looks alittle off to be actually worn, but never know. Atleast they are not as bad as the hard washed ones.