opinions on reproducing jeans

[steven]

so i have access to a factory in vietnam. supposedly the craftsmanship there is pretty good. it's just that you need to supply good materials which i could probably find in the los angeles garment district.

i was thinking i could send a pair of 501's or something, have them reverse engineer it and make a few pairs with some high quality denim , and give a few pairs out at a very cheap price to a few sf members. and if things work out i might do things on a little bit bigger scale.

what do you guys think of this idea?

[keri]

i think it's stupid, there are enough companies, from tursted people doing good work out there that we dont need anymore doing that, find something special and get yourself a niche if you want to do something like that.

[steven]

it's not really a business venture... it's just kind of a project and a way to get a pair of high quality jeans made for myself and hook some people up.

[nairb49]

well if you're hooking people up, I don't see why I would refuse a pair.

[oOmegaOo]

Count me in for the hook-up as well. That's: o-o-m-e-g-a-o-o. Got it?

The possibilities of having access to a factory fries my brain. I hope you can do something great with it.

[toufu]

lol im vietnamese, I remember a long ass time ago when I went to buy chucks with my mom, she saw the "made in vietnam" tag and said "try to find one that's made in china" AHHAHA

I'm down with cheap high quality 501's that's made in vietnam

[Servo2000]

Sounds interesting.

[calatrava]

has nice possibilities, keep us posted please

[dnarnya]

ill take one dior homme 19cm repro

[camthrax]

^^^ yeah damn some Dior repros.

[tanner68]

If you are already in the garment district in downtown L.A., why are you bothering with moving the materials back and forth to Vietnam? Just do the whole thing in L.A.

[poly800rock]

http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showthread.php?t=8314

this reverse engineer business has happened before, except with sweatshirts. it ended in a stolen supreme backpack

[tony_hige]

if it's not really a business venture and you don't have to worry about all the crap that goes along with business ventures (like making money), then why don't you get deep with it. most flights to saigon stop over in narita, so get a stopover of several days and catch a bullet train to okadaya to get the best hank-dyed ring-ring selvage denim you can possibly get. then spend some time w/ your factory and really get the fit perfect. obsess over every minute detail that goes into the jean...the pocket lining, the thread gauge, the number of stitches per inch, what you want the interior thread to be. have the rivets hand set, like on levi's made before the 30's, and make sure a little tuft of denim sticks up between the burr and rivet. don't skimp on anything, and more importantly don't overlook any detail...like when you attach the waistband, let the union special run the chainstitch about an inch past the end so you get like a little rope hanging off your waistband, then fold it back and tack it down with your fly stitch...look deeply at your jeans and you'll see.

then drop me an email when you're done.

[cheapmuthafukr]

ok... heres the deal

DIORXETERNAL

or even some pbj type denim.... do it.

[ang_kangkong]

if it's not really a business venture and you don't have to worry about all the crap that goes along with business ventures (like making money), then why don't you get deep with it. most flights to saigon stop over in narita, so get a stopover of several days and catch a bullet train to okadaya to get the best hank-dyed ring-ring selvage denim you can possibly get. then spend some time w/ your factory and really get the fit perfect. obsess over every minute detail that goes into the jean...the pocket lining, the thread gauge, the number of stitches per inch, what you want the interior thread to be. have the rivets hand set, like on levi's made before the 30's, and make sure a little tuft of denim sticks up between the burr and rivet. don't skimp on anything, and more importantly don't overlook any detail...like when you attach the waistband, let the union special run the chainstitch about an inch past the end so you get like a little rope hanging off your waistband, then fold it back and tack it down with your fly stitch...look deeply at your jeans and you'll see.

then drop me an email when you're done.

I don't even know why all of what he said is a good thing, but I'm a size 32 of one of those.

[Guest jeffvyain]

and i'll gladly take a 30.

[viv1984viv]

haha, its all about the dior 19 x eternal jeans ( or pbj! ), I was scrolling down waiting for dior to be mentioned, id like some dior repros, I expect alot of people would. Id make diors if i was you, why make 501's??? Your competing with Sugar Canes!!!........... will urs have the acurate?? hehe

[poly800rock]

i'm going to quickly blow some minds here...ready...wait for it....

DIORXETERNALXPUREBLUEJAPAN

[Double D]

DiorXBape

If you don't want 38 inch inseams and monkey vomit on your jeans you're not a real Superfuturian.

[Cameland]

just do a dior repro!! too many ppl want this!

[seanfromiran]

I'd be in for a dior repro, 19cm

[so-so]

holy shit diore repro.

[kiya]

dior repro?

the upcoming Self Edge x Iron Heart jeans have a very similar cut to a 21cm Dior.

they'll have Sterling Silver rivets, 21oz selvedge indigo, hidden rivets, etc..

i'm doing a custom tag and back pocket stitch for these..

[VDSUPREME]

dior repro +1

[shoiebones]

a Dior cut with eternal/pure blue quality denim would be unstoppable. My vote would go for the 19cm. I think damn near everyone on this board would be into this.

[minya]

more shoddy fake Diors -- just what the market needs!

[tweeds]

if it's not really a business venture and you don't have to worry about all the crap that goes along with business ventures (like making money), then why don't you get deep with it. most flights to saigon stop over in narita, so get a stopover of several days and catch a bullet train to okadaya to get the best hank-dyed ring-ring selvage denim you can possibly get. then spend some time w/ your factory and really get the fit perfect. obsess over every minute detail that goes into the jean...the pocket lining, the thread gauge, the number of stitches per inch, what you want the interior thread to be. have the rivets hand set, like on levi's made before the 30's, and make sure a little tuft of denim sticks up between the burr and rivet. don't skimp on anything, and more importantly don't overlook any detail...like when you attach the waistband, let the union special run the chainstitch about an inch past the end so you get like a little rope hanging off your waistband, then fold it back and tack it down with your fly stitch...look deeply at your jeans and you'll see.

then drop me an email when you're done.

i'd be more interested in something like this than a dior repro...

but the work involved would be crazy. the perfect repro jean is a long way out of sight?

[xcoldricex]

i'd be more interested in something like this than a dior repro...

but the work involved would be crazy. the perfect repro jean is a long way out of sight?

damn. me too. sign me up.

[tweeds]

damn. me too. sign me up.

remember the 2channel denim repro project?

i wonder what happened to that...

[tony_hige]

i'd be more interested in something like this than a dior repro...

but the work involved would be crazy. the perfect repro jean is a long way out of sight?

au contraire...the work is the same, it's just more thought put into it. for every minute detail on a pair of jeans, there is a decision to be made and either you are going to make that decision or the factory is going to make that decision, and as long as you let someone else make that decision, they will invariably err on the side of whatever is fastest and cheapest. that, in a nutshell, is the key to design.