Word of Mouth - The Crust & Fades Contest

[beautiful_FrEaK]

That's some crazy marbling right there. Looks good!

[Jared_Lee]

Thanks, @julian-wolf. We'll see how it all shakes out in the end. You've got a beautiful pair yourself. I'm just loving the fit and feel on these jeans over the year plus we've been doing this. Next to Full Count, these are my favorite pair yet.

[Jared_Lee]

@beautiful_FrEaK, funny because one of the main things I prefer about my FC's is that the marbling is much less intense. Happy that the WoMCons are a bit more subdued than the Warehouse x Signet pair though. 

[space_cowboy]

@Jared_Lee They look great! Are you hot washing and drying them?

[ATWM]

Gotta be that city laundromat magic 

[Jared_Lee]

@space_cowboy, I wash on the color cycle and tumble on low. I have no idea what temperature the water or the dryer are at. I just put the quarters in (16 of them these days!) and press the button. My Roys and FC's don't react like this at all to the same cycle. But then the Warehouse x Signet got even crazier.

[reallypeacedoff]

So wild @Jared_Lee! And by that, I mean 16 quarters! Our apartment block washing/dryer is $5 a load nowadays. Was $1.50 when we first moved here 4 years ago.

But for real, the jeans look amazing!

[beautiful_FrEaK]

21 hours ago, Jared_Lee said:

@beautiful_FrEaK, funny because one of the main things I prefer about my FC's is that the marbling is much less intense. Happy that the WoMCons are a bit more subdued than the Warehouse x Signet pair though. 

Yeah, like many things, also marbling can get overboard. I remember the Goteborg Manufaktur x Denimbridge contest and those jeans marbled like crazy. First I was like "oh cool, never had this" and the more I wore them, the more the marbling took away from the overall fades.

[Broark]

16 minutes ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

I remember the Goteborg Manufaktur x Denimbridge contest and those jeans marbled like crazy.

Yeah these were really over the top when it came to marbling imo.

[reallypeacedoff]

How do you go about "designing" marbling though? 

[CSL]

Reporting for 'The Great Unwashed'...

[vIGGiou riou]

great progress....

[vIGGiou riou]

another wash...

[nopal]

On 2/27/2026 at 6:14 PM, nopal said:

Nine-wash a couple of days ago.

Ten-wash

[UkeNo]

Some pre wash shots from outside yesterday 

bonus mid-action shot

 

[MJF9]

A wash... and a little repair due...

Edited April 3 by MJF9

[CSL]

^^^Looking mine over today I noticed the crotch stitching has finally started to disintegrate. Still I'm kinda amazed it's held up this long. 

[MJF9]

@CSL if it all unravels and falls apart, then one option is to deploy superman-style pants - over your WoMs - to spare your blushes... you'll get plenty of super-reps for that 

[CSL]

Or for 100% security - 

[nopal]

A couple points of failure on mine:

 

[Broark]

Pre wash photos, lost count of the number of washes but I'm enjoying these!

[srudy]

Coming along 

[julian-wolf]

Maybe my last jeans-update before final submissions?!!????!!??!?!

Definitely past the point of max. contrast, and into the era of slowly washing out to medium blues (+ battling more and more to keep up with repairs)

 

I think the crotch & seat will be able to make it through July without any major work, if only just…but the watch pocket needs re-stitching soon

 

 …and the back left pocket, where I keep my phone, is getting pretty shredded 

 

…and the right hip belt loop, where I sometimes clip things, is just about ready to be either rebuilt or replaced

 

 …and the front left pocket, where I keep my keys, has come full circle: the twill that I used to patch over + reinforce the heavy wear point at the inside of the pocket opening, has itself started to wear through

 

 …and the right knee needs either a big patch or some pretty heavy darning, before much longer

 

At this point, I’m enjoying these more and more after each wash. For the last 2–3 months, they’ve been my “dirty work” jeans, getting worn hard & never washed (apropos of @Cold Summer’s recent post in the Vintage Jeans thread?), which has meant I’ve hardly worn them during day-to-day life. Honestly, I’ve missed them. For the rest of the contest, I’m hoping to flip that back around and make them my every-day jeans for work & chores, just to get as much enjoyment out of them as I can.

[reallypeacedoff]

Looking great dude, impressive fading to say the least!

[LazyS]

+rep if you print the despondent frog peeking thru the knee patch

[nopal]

On 3/24/2026 at 10:10 PM, nopal said:

Ten-wash

Eleven-wash and some new stitches

 

[UkeNo]

Some in the spring light. 

apologies for how unkempt this one is

 

Although, I’m wearing them uncuffed most of the time like this…

Edited April 13 by UkeNo

[julian-wolf]

Updated fit (going back out of rotation after today until I get around to fixing at least the pockets and the belt loop, hopefully this weekend)

[CSL]

Not quite a month since the last update but I would say there's been some post-worthy progress.
Pulled out the sewing machine today and fought with the crotch seam. At least in my determined attempts to get one stitch row in line with the originals, I can claim to have fortified the area. 
(Pics on the pebbles are in the sun, the rest in the shade)

Edited April 16 by CSL

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Another wash