Word of Mouth - The Crust & Fades Contest

[srudy]

Happened to get the Ooe jacket today once my contest jeans had dried. It may be a very denim 18 months! 

[julian-wolf]

@srudy Matching chore coat & pocket bags?? That’s the peak of fashion 

Edited January 22 by julian-wolf

[srudy]

@julian-wolf Omg, right?!?? Should I wear the vest too? 🤣

[fabes]

Checking in with pre/post and initial thoughts. I really like these jeans and cut. The roping is top notch. I’m still tripping out on the denim pockets bags It’s a weird feeling, but will only get better with wear.
 

I didn’t get as much shrink in the waist as I wanted with the first wash, so I ran them through again as well as a trip through the dryer. Think we’re fully shrunk now - waist snug, but has loosened to what I was wanting and inseam hit requested post-shrink exactly. 
 

I ended up with some marbling with the initial soak/wash/hang dry that was probably intensified with the second wash/dryer. My typical machine wash/dry usually doesn’t marble like this, but it did this time. No worries - I’m choosing to see the squiggles as ‘freshly grated mozzarella’ for my pizza pants.  

Pre

Post initial wash, hang dry

Edited January 22 by fabes

[Lazerr]

Apologies in advance for the crappy pictures, my lighting isn't so good and the sun isn't as plentiful as it was in LA . 

I got these last Wednesday and was really impressed with the little details, mainly the patch and the Pizza red tab. I was initially worried that they would be too small post soak, however, they ended up fitting pretty nicely! They were given a soak and were then machine dried (couldn't wait on the air dry) to avoid any further shrinkage. Simo really got all the post soak shrinkage right, especailly with the inseam! I'll try to post more pictures as I get more wear in, I just tend to forget to take pictures 😅

Patch got pretty faded post wash.

[beautiful_FrEaK]

8 hours ago, srudy said:

@julian-wolf Omg, right?!?? Should I wear the vest too? 🤣

absolutely!

[Mtvare]

On 1/22/2025 at 7:35 AM, beautiful_FrEaK said:

So far 21 people have signed in, in the official Picture thread.

We still miss

@MJF9 @Lazerr @bartlebyyphonics @theguywhoknewthatguy @Mtvare

I only got back from a trip abroad on Tuesday. Soaked and washed yesterday, wearing today. But the initial pictures thread now says it's closed to replies. Should I post them here?

[beautiful_FrEaK]

@Mtvare it's open now again

And re-named to make it clearer (I hope)

[Mtvare]

Thanks - start pics are up!

[Jared_Lee]

I have to say, loving these jeans so far. Sized it just right. There's plenty of room in the hips without dipping under the belt too badly. 

Stock room casual this morning doing grunt work.

[reallypeacedoff]

[beautiful_FrEaK]

After 3 days of wear, the denim gets more hairy.

[Alec Leamas]

2 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

After 3 days of wear, the denim gets more hairy.

I've noticed a bit of this, it's coming more alive for sure!

I whacked mine through another warm wash to get an extra bit off the inseam, which worked well, I now don't need to cuff which is what I was wanting.

Patch detail has 99.9% gone though!

I'll post a renewed couple of fit pics next week

[vIGGiou riou]

I recorded it as well...

[fabes]

Post 2nd-shrink post barber pic. Liking these more and more. 

 

[CSL]

10 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

After 3 days of wear, the denim gets more hairy.

Yes. Same on mine (as yet unwashed). Noticed it in the sunlight this morning.

[vIGGiou riou]

6 days in...

[UkeNo]

Drove for around 7hrs today. 
Can confirm hairiness.

Edited January 26 by UkeNo

[81611]

Noticeable amount of stretch after a week of wear.

[UkeNo]

After driving 350 miles from Brighton (that’s a long drive in the UK) up to the Lake District to visit my Dad yesterday,  here's the view from his window of Bowscale. Just near the more famous Blencathra. 
It’s bloody cold too. 

Looked like this on 11th January though. Much prettier. 

[Dr_Heech]

^Beautiful spot

[UkeNo]

Heres an arm stretched selfie. In natural grey daylight. 
This perspective makes my ankles look like they taper to a needle point! 
They’re plenty wide really. 

Edited January 26 by UkeNo

[UkeNo]

My Dad just found this in his draw. Mice have eaten his merino base layer and stored peanuts from the bird feeder in the garden in it. Countryside living! 

 

Edited January 26 by UkeNo

[Broark]

Crap photos but I wore my pair yesterday playing golf at the oldest golf course in Texas (1899). Normally wouldn’t wear jeans on the course, but this is a casual 9 hole walking only muni course, no dress code and only $18. A few friends and I play here every month or so. Fun way to spend an afternoon.

[81611]

Start me up KC

[Talan]

54 minutes ago, 81611 said:

Start me up KC

Nice cover of the single...)

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Works with sneakers as well. And finally I had a haircut...

[Alec Leamas]

Updated fit on mine with likely final inseam length!

Honestly I’ve never had jeans fit this well in the top block before.

I know this is going to sound like “denim nerd draws parallels between one generic 501 iteration and another generic 501 iteration” but these are feeling to me like a Warehouse 1001XX with a better top block for me. Lovely stuff.

[bartlebyyphonics]

pizza landings

raw and cooked montage

as shortened xposting from starter thread…

mobile fabric from large to little and sure they will find largeness again…

 

[deadendpro]

On 1/24/2025 at 2:27 AM, beautiful_FrEaK said:

After 3 days of wear, the denim gets more hairy.

What up B_F!! Long time my dude! This denim looks fascinating. Sad to see I might have missed something very exciting and SuFu-based, but haven’t been on the forum in a min. I’m looking forward to seeing all the progress and reading through the posts here, but wanted to say ‘Hell yeah!’ For all the efforts I’ve read from you thus far my guy!