Word of Mouth - The Crust & Fades Contest

[vIGGiou riou]

and leg twist is enormous ....

[frank]

Damn, I must really be easy on my jeans because I feel like these jeans don't fade at all. Been wearing them ~5 days a week since the comp started and I can barely see anything lightening up.

[Talan]

3 hours ago, frank said:

Damn, I must really be easy on my jeans because I feel like these jeans don't fade at all. Been wearing them ~5 days a week since the comp started and I can barely see anything lightening up.

That was exactly the point of my question here the other day. Why do my jeans—even though I usually rotate several pairs—stay looking like new for many months, while someone else’s start wearing out literally the next day? Not that I’m worried about it—quite the opposite, actually. I like that my rare and rather expensive (for my budget) pieces last a long time. I’m just curious. My guess is that I usually wear jeans for only a few hours a day when I go out for walks/errands (several hours daily) and change into something more comfortable as soon as I get home.

[julian-wolf]

For a fair contest, we should really all be tracking our wear on a quarter-hour basis

[julian-wolf]

On 3/21/2025 at 9:56 AM, julian-wolf said:

+ Two days later

 

Meanwhile, the season’s wildflowers are starting to really take off up in the hills, with trillium making the first strong appearance as always

 

feat. Union Special, Sun Surf / Oahu Garment Co. / Tezomeya / Duke / MOTO

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Doing slides on the playground helps with back pocket evolution 

[Broark]

We took our daughter out to the local wildflower center near our house yesterday, hard to believe she's already 3 months old.
I've had a hard time documenting much lately, but I'm working on it!

Before and after one of our pups got a (long overdue) haircut.


Keeping watching during playtime.

I've got a bunch of fancy sneakers but somehow I always end up back in these ones from Catchball.


Seen a guy at one of our local coffee shops wearing some wide FH's and Paraboots.

[Talan]

43 minutes ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

Doing slides on the playground helps with back pocket evolution 

Oh, so you’re sliding down now? How many times a day? The picture is starting to come together. Though, if we’re being honest, Tilmann, I’m starting to think you should be disqualified from the contest! 🤣

[reallypeacedoff]

Seems like this is cheating no?

[reallypeacedoff]

My fellow WOMJ contestants inspired me to give mine a wash...

[CSL]

Haha! ^^^ That's great. Glad to see the people making these things have a sense of humor. (Re the slide).

Edited March 23 by CSL

[Maynard Friedman]

7 hours ago, reallypeacedoff said:

Seems like this is cheating no?

That’s just grate!

[aho]

Turns out I need to have a kid to have a chance at winning this contest! 

[Sugar Mountain]

52 minutes ago, aho said:

Turns out I need to have a kid to have a chance at winning this contest! 

Knee fades, slide wear, stains from spilled food and exploding nappies... what's not to love?

[CSL]

I thought wearing raw would yield quicker fades, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I am starting to see the crease lines lightening up now, and in bright sunlight the knees appear a little bit pale.

Still a long way to go. Not a bad thing.
 

[Alec Leamas]

@CSL I feel that in time your approach will have some striking results.

You've also piqued my interest in the JL donkey boots recently!

[Alec Leamas]

On 3/23/2025 at 11:23 AM, Broark said:

I've had a hard time documenting much lately, but I'm working on it!

Dude, you have a 3 month old. That is doing absolutely more than enough in itself!! Beautiful set of photos by the way - those early days are so so precious. My youngest isn't even 2 yet and I miss the early early times - insanity maybe? I'm okay with insanity if so.

[CSL]

5 hours ago, Alec Leamas said:

@CSL I feel that in time your approach will have some striking results.

You've also piqued my interest in the JL donkey boots recently!

Yes. I'm hoping so. Been doing some reading up on home dry cleaning, baking soda, white vinegar, steamers, etc. We'll see if I can continue to resist the lure of the washing machine.

About the Lofgrens, they're feeling good now they're a bit broken in. Initially the high-ish heel felt a bit challenging but it's better now.

[Broark]

I was trying to hold out until the three month mark for a wash, but we went to a ren fest yesterday and got rained on. So the jeans were just too grungy.
Jeans are out drying in the sun now, I'll get some post wash pictures this weekend.

[ATWM]

@Broark was trying to hold out too, really wanted to get to at least 3 months. But took a muddy dive playing soccer with my boy. We’ll see how well the spot cleaning can go on this one...

[Duke Mantee]

On 4/1/2025 at 12:27 AM, ATWM said:

@Broark was trying to hold out too, really wanted to get to at least 3 months. But took a muddy dive playing soccer with my boy. We’ll see how well the spot cleaning can go on this one...

Football … it’s called football 🙄😂

[ATWM]

11 hours ago, Duke Mantee said:

Football … it’s called football 🙄😂

Well, I don’t know.
We weren’t carrying the ball and running at eachother or throwing it and weren’t smashing into anyone. None of that. We were only using our feet, so I don’t think football makes sense. Not in good ol murican logic anyways. 

[Maynard Friedman]

Importantly, was the ball spherical or did it have pointy ends?

The term ‘soccer’ comes from Oxford-er slang, which was prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. Initially spelt ‘asoccer’ (a shortening of ‘association’), it was later reduced to the modern spelling. This form of slang also gave rise to ‘rugger’ for rugby football and the now-archaic ‘footer’ that was also a name for association football. The word ‘soccer’ arrived at its current form in 1895 and was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.

I’m not sure about ‘fitba’ though…

Still, if you’re wearing WoM jeans, then surely its calcio?

[dudewuttheheck]

On 3/21/2025 at 7:47 PM, frank said:

Damn, I must really be easy on my jeans because I feel like these jeans don't fade at all. Been wearing them ~5 days a week since the comp started and I can barely see anything lightening up.

I'm in the same boat. I'm wearing them 6-7 days a week and they haven't faded much at all. I was surprised others said they were fast faders as they feel the opposite for me.

 

That said, I really like them. The cut works well for me and they've got a few idiosyncrasies that I love about a great repro.