Unknown Japanese Brands

[LC_Miey]

the denim on those looks pretty good. I especially like the dual colour selvage. did you pick up a pair dhalgren?

the website looks pretty well designed too

[Ord]

Very nice jeans indeed, those Trophies.

Does anyone know how much do the standard models retail for?

According to their website the fully customized goes for 44k Yen, which is really too dear. Also, the reinforcement on the front and the stencil are a tad ugly

[SLAB]

Trophy clothing is regularly featured in Lightning and Free&Easy; their tops are pretty nice too, wanted to buy a military jacket style from them a few years ago, unfortunately they sell out quickly.

[Ord]

the arcs look like this:

http://www.trophy-clothing.com/products/

Trophy is featured in Lightning Magazine #198 and in the Denim Buyers Guide

They're also featured on Lightning #62, "The Denim Book" (page 194), but i now know why i overlooked them despite having read it (well, looked at the pages, as i don't read Japanese), so many times.

The Trophy pair featured on The Denim Book is the one with the ugly (to me) front reinforcements.

Probably good for a pair of work trousers (which i would definitely not pay 44k Yen for) but not for jeans i would normally walk around in

[beautiful_FrEaK]

ok, UES are not really unknown but way underrepresented.

Here's a one year wear example from Bears

you'll find more pics here. you can also order from there

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/bears/denim-diary2/

[Ahlvahroe]

im gonna put this here too, in case someone missed my other post

here are a (few) thousand words for you

they are the dna001 fit. its like a lower rise slim(ish) straight leg. high-five to myself for finding these.

i was in osaka a couple of days ago and these were exactly what i was looking for so yeah.

organic cotton, and very rich indigo, the pics i posted do not do these justice.

[chantheman]

fit pics ?

[nachtelijk]

-search found posted before-

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Gleem was never really discussed in here. Would really like to see some worn in pairs.

XX

http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/studebaker/glm-201-09fw-a.html

66

http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/studebaker/glm-206-a.html

[westside-jeans]

Kyoto Denim launched in 2008. Women's jeans brand in Kyoto. Harmonious blend of skills of Kimono wear and modern designs which are mainly Japanese tastes.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

^Hideous (10).

[tropicalbird]

lol no

10 char

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Those jeans are ugly. This is not a debatable matter.

[nachtelijk]

not sure if posted before (did a search but no results)

DEEP BLUE, sister company to Eternals... dedicated to ladies

from Okayama, 12.5oz, zimbawe cotton (images and links from craft-cafe.jp)

straight leg [73190-OW] - only option with selvedge

straight leg [73148-OW]

tapered leg [74949-OW]

[Guest rusholmeruffian]

Now then, much better.

[Warakia]

Kyoto Denim launched in 2008. Women's jeans brand in Kyoto. Harmonious blend of skills of Kimono wear and modern designs which are mainly Japanese tastes.

I walked past the store a bunch of times when I lived in Kyoto, never bothered going in because it looked pretty shitty from the outside already. Good to see my hunch confirmed.

[drapygo]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Denim-Project/101344986626955

Guy just started a facebook page. Hopefully there will be more information for english speaking...

[thecolosseum]

Don't know what brand - maybe someone can tell from the rivets but I've never seen pocket selvege oriented like this.

I think it looks like Raleigh Denim may be wrong though.

[aho]

^Devi's are pretty cool...I like the whole idea of the small/one man shop doing his own repros although it's been done many times before, it really goes back to the root of our passion...

[beautiful_FrEaK]

yeah they looks really interesting...and very very Levi's-like...should use a Devi on the red tab though

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Guess who owns a pair of Devi's jeans? Yes, Edmond of course.

Pics from his blog.

[aho]

for some reason I remember Two Moon being mentioned somewhere but can't find a thread, etc....check out this denim, seems to have characteristics of everything I like...

http://ameblo.jp/j-fabled/theme-10031395413.html

[Flash]

Two moons denim is realy nice ,quite rough without being crazy sluby, had to sell a pair of 530's because i needed to size down 1 but ive allways said id get another pair

[SLAB]

they have nice tops too, I especially like their sweatshirts

[Rightyow77]

Those Gleems are beautiful.

Love the XX

[Guest Electrorock]

Is Kicking Mule a well known brand?

Kuro Denim is the shit btw

They fit better than Dior...so far

[Guest Electrorock]

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Edited April 29, 2012 by Electrorock

[Vicarious]

I'm no expert, but I'd say so?

[wgmds]

17 pages worth of posts says that kicking mule has been here for a little while. the thread started in 06, three years before the waywt denim thread. so yes, vicarious, you are no expert.

http://supertalk.superfuture.com/index.php?/topic/23406-kicking-mule-workshop/page__st__800

[hawkway]

I feel like Big John should be in here, since they don't have their own thread here and aren't talked about much . . .

These are the M3 model @ 10 months, and are pretty cheap, even if you got them straight from their own site through the 3rd party proxy service offered here . . . $123 USD + fees