Word of Mouth - The Crust & Fades Contest

[CSL]

Got home around golden hour on Memorial Day and noticed the low sun was picking up the fade lines to good effect. Denim is still dark aside from the lines.

 

[srudy]

@CSL liking the look of those! How long are you going to wait to wash?

[CSL]

@srudy Theoretically never...

They are a good waist fit as is. I may be looking into dry cleaning, or some home remedy imitation of that.

I'm also considering building some kind of wooden rack to preserve the length in the event that I need to turn the hose on them at some point of inevitability. 

[MJF9]

There was a buzz in the air around our way yesterday 

I missed the main action but my wife was a honey and took some footage

Bees had migrated from under the eaves of a local house to nest in a tree

Nothing could be done to move them on while they were living in the eaves

However, once in the tree, they could be moved safely... the local beekeeper was contacted 

The queen bee ended up safely in the bucket... and her loyal subjects soon followed

The beekeeper left the bees to swarm into the bucket for a few hours

Then came back, put them all in the blanket, into her car boot and took them to her hive to live happily ever after

Win-win-win situation - happy bees, happy beekeeper, happy home-owner...

Quite a sweet ending eh 😄

[Maynard Friedman]

You’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest here. Here’s another antophila-related caper from the Bee Bee Cee

[MJF9]

Haha I knew you'd bee straight in with a comment... 250 million... that's almost unbeelievable

[chicote]

That happened about an hour north of where I live! I have a couple beekeeper friends who wanted to drive up to witness the bee's behavior -- as you can imagine this is a novel situation for everyone involved...

[reallypeacedoff]

When I saw the first picture, I immediately thought it was a real-life Banksy exhibit. Ha!

[bartlebyyphonics]

no big update

minimal whiskers

maximal twist

itsa confirmed marblerrr

 

[aho]

Forgive the crotch shot but jeans are looking wild

[bartlebyyphonics]

plus action shot for speed drape jollies:

been trying it with type 1s or surplus army: seems to be friendliest with the good ol chore…

 

[julian-wolf]

@aho Those are looking prime, makes me wish I’d sized my pair to be able to put them through a more aggressive wash routine

[ATWM]

@julian-wolf my limited experience so far tells me even that with gentler washes these are gonna keep shrinking a touch - I bet if you give it a good hot one now you’ll just end up where you might have in a few months anyways? 

[julian-wolf]

@ATWM I’ve washed on warm a couple times now and they seem to be about as shrunk as they’re gonna get just sticking with that routine, but I don’t think I’ll ever do ultra-hot nor put them through the dryer

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Because of a sick kid, we nearly cancelled our trip. Driving through whole Germany to reach the Dutch coast today. Now staying in this "tiny house" for a week.

[vIGGiou riou]

@beautiful_FrEaK enjoy beautiful narrow house holiday with family....

[reallypeacedoff]

For the marble guys, seems the dryer is the "marble maker"? I have washed mine fair regularly but am not using the dryer for fear of shrinking them too much. Mine don't seem to be showing much marbling. Unlike my Denime 220a that I have been drying.

[aho]

3 hours ago, reallypeacedoff said:

For the marble guys, seems the dryer is the "marble maker"? I have washed mine fair regularly but am not using the dryer for fear of shrinking them too much. Mine don't seem to be showing much marbling. Unlike my Denime 220a that I have been drying.

Seems to be the case for me, though I hang dry over night and pop them in the drier on low for 5-10 minutes in the morning for residual moisture in order to wear that day. Was hoping for more even fades, but regardless it's reflective of my lifestyle choices 😅

[UkeNo]

Waiting for mum

last one has the truest colour (indoors) 

[beautiful_FrEaK]

[vIGGiou riou]

4 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

wow. very nice scenery of the North Sea....

Edited June 8 by vIGGiou riou

[Broark]

Update on my pair, I think I've washed them 3 times so far and they're due for another wash here soon.
Feels like these started off quickly and started to slow down a bit, but I'm enjoying them regardless.
I wish the front pocket openings were a little wider, but that's my only real complaint.

[bartlebyyphonics]

another wash

wet fragments on line

wet indigo in the wild…

no dryer used here

but the crinkles creep in regardless 

(will share measurements when dry to give relative numbers re: shrinkage post 4th wash at 40…)

 

[Jared_Lee]

Can confirm heavy marbling. Too much marbling for me. It's moving me towards washing every 8 weeks or so because I don't want them going crazy like my Warehouse x Signet jeans did. Mine turned a corner after a thousand miles through the desert and they seem to be dropping indigo more quickly these days. I think @Broark's pair hits what I want, but not what I'm getting. Lol. Once it stops raining here, I'll try to get a few new pics up.

[ATWM]

My experience so far is different - I did the first three washes by hand though - hang dry. Very minimal marbling. Not close to what my WH 1003xxs are (which I am pretty sure are the pair that was adopted to the Signet contest jeans - or at least the same denim, I just got the regular run before the contest). That pair does have some decent marbling. 

Finally did a machine wash and didn't notice much marbling either - they may have gotten past that point. That said, I'm currently without my pair as they get some darning done and I expect to only machine wash and wash more frequently, so we'll see if anything changes but it could be awhile. 

[vIGGiou riou]

my pair is marbling too. I thought is my washing machine, but last time I did hand wash and after hang drying it looked same as after machine wash. IMO we have to prolong not washing time, to let denim to live and let mechanic tear to work.

Biggest marbling I noticed on my Denime 220A. IMO it's kind of denim doing that. And there even long time between washes didn't help. IMO it's kind of denim used for 220A is doing that.

[srudy]

Still haven’t washed mine since the initial soak, so not much to show as of yet, I’m holding off before I wash. 
But, I did attend our new little town’s Western Weekend Parade which is a sweet and odd culmination of ranchers, farm workers and kooky hippies! 

[vIGGiou riou]

great parade and picture story srudy....

looks like movie promo for some western cinema

Edited June 9 by vIGGiou riou

[Maynard Friedman]

16 minutes ago, srudy said:

Looks like it was entertaining @srudy

The picture above looks like the crowds on the underground en route to the Beyoncé concert!

[srudy]

Haaaaa! Omg, yes @Maynard Friedman and our little town is totally trapped in time in a good way @vIGGiou riou