A little help? Please?

[PeopleCallMeTom]

I'm sorry if this topic is not appropriate for this forum but I need a little bit of help.

I recently bought my first pair of raw denim, APC new standards, which stretched out beyond belief so I went back to APC and bought a pair of smaller Rescues which also stretched out a little bit. I know that raw denim will strech and I know that by soaking them in hot water they will shrink nearly back to orginal size but they still dont fit quite right. Now comes the problem.

Im looking to buy some serious raw denim like some diors or samurais (any other suggestions) but Im worried about the stretching. In the samurai thread I noticed that everyone soaked their samurais before wearing them. Does this reduce the stretching?

All in all I'm looking for some expensive high quality denim, but, I dont want to make the investment and realized i wasted my money on denim that wont ever fit right. Any suggestions? I live in NYC so I guess the best place to go would be Blue In Green in SoHo.

All help is appreciated. Thanks.

[edmond]

get some skulls they dont strech at all if they do the most is around 1/2 inch

diors strech out around 3/4 inch max on their raw italians

[Brienneoftarth]

you clearly dont want raw denim. You've tried it out on a less expensive brand and didn;t like how it fit. Now you want to spend more money on something that you did not like to begin with? And why are you looking for some expensive high qaulity denim? APC is inexpensive high qaulity denim and it didn;t suit you. Think about WHY you want these jeans if they clearly dont agree with you. Then Just buy washed stuff that fits you right. Otherwise, do a search and look around there is tons of info in other threads.

[the wit of the staircase]

you're buying them too big.

[PeopleCallMeTom]

Im sorry Downwithianbrown but I guess you misunderstood my post since i focused on the bad side of my relationship with raw denim.

I love the look and I love the idea of personally distressing my jeans. Although these rescues may not fit perfectly i have still worn them for the past few months.

I will be buying some raw denim, soon. I would just like some advice as which to purchase.

[tweeds]

some things that might help:

shrinking jeans: http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/tags/index.php?tag=/shrinking/

focus especially on the Raw or One Wash? thread - maybe you don't want raw jeans, instead get one-wash jeans.

soaking: http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/tags/index.php?tag=/soaking/

the short answer - no it doesn't reduce stretching, but it shrinks the denim as much as possible before we stretch it out again through wear.

also, no it's not the wrong forum, but this is a question that has been posed over and over again...