The Evolution of Jeans: Pictures, Scones and Tea

[damienos]

Great looking Dukes...Still waiting for the 5 month mark... 3 months to go.

Also, the old leather patch will be some sort of rarity i guess, with the new Levi's 'inspired' change!

Thanks Levis! for making my Dukes 'Limited Edition'!

Ha!

Damien

[choice_genes]

Thanks for the positive comments guys (and the rep, lol!)

Damienos, yeah it's sweet having an 'illegal' patch on the dukes. And I'm glad they are making the back pockets smaller too (although annoyed that they didn't do that from the start - one of my few gripes with the cut of the dukes...).

TIP - I hope you're right! I'd love to find some jeans with a similar cut to the dukes (minimal hips, slightly tapered, hem of 18 to 19cm) with denim/indigo like DDML's canes! Anything to suggest off the top of your head (aside from $700 jomons )?

[khaltire]

Does that vertical falling have something to do with BOTH the natural indigo and just the special wave sugarcane weaves their jeans and the properties of their denim? Or can you expect that type of streakiness from all natural indigo jeans?

[eastcoastrider27]

Who are you talking to?

Either... It doesn't really matter.

[n0torious]

DDML and choice_genes both, those are awesome.

choice_genes, how's the fit on the dukes?

[Thorns]

I've been avoiding posting this. My nudie project was really disappointing. These were the hardest jeans to try and get fade on ever. I first got them on March 3rd of last year and wore them until Nov 1st of this past year.

Horrible crotch pic when I first put them on:

I wore the snot out of these things. Camping, lawn work, all sorts of manual labor, I went clubbing and I lived in a frat house. I got them absolutely disgustingly dirty constantly and I would just let it dry and then brush it off.

I did that the whole way until my contest sammies arrived when I stopped wearing them. I wore them only a couple times until January 4th when I finally realized they were too filthy to keep wearing.

As you can see in the pics they had dirt and grease and all kinds of bodily fluids and some pretty stark wear showing through. I washed them and they shrank to the point where they are now unwearable and most of the hige faded away.

I was left with a clean pair of strange looking too small jeans with a huge cellphone mark. Disappointing.

[jwied82]

its a shame nudie changed the denim on the glenns for their last season.. the old glenns fade sooo nicely.

I wish they would change the denim on the olas, or that they would have at least produced the broken twill ola... its a great fit, but seems to produces lackluster fading.

[Thorns]

its a shame nudie changed the denim on the glenns for their last season.. the old glenns fade sooo nicely.

I wish they would change the denim on the olas, or that they would have at least produced the broken twill ola... its a great fit, but seems to produces lackluster fading.

I agree completely. When I first bought these I had been under the impression that it was the original denim. I also have a pair of older prewashed glenns which had the really thick soft denim. Shame.

[khaltire]

lol thorns.. you seem SO ashamed of them.. they actually look alright after the wash.. just not contrasty thats all... too bad they dont fit

[choice_genes]

nOtorious - dukes are a slim straight leg, pretty similar to nudie slim jim, but with a higher rise. I got mine tapered in about 1cm so they have a 19cm hem. I think they look better slightly tapered. The original straight leg fell too much like a bootcut for me....

[blm14]

Keep wearing them. I found that my RRDS started fading much MORE after the first wash.

[n0torious]

nOtorious - dukes are a slim straight leg, pretty similar to nudie slim jim, but with a higher rise. I got mine tapered in about 1cm so they have a 19cm hem. I think they look better slightly tapered. The original straight leg fell too much like a bootcut for me....

thanks! i've been looking at those because i'm tall and need something with a decently long inseam. did you size down at all?

[Roland]

SD X-27 - 50 days. 1 soak. I usually don't post newbies, but I wanted to endorse LFC4ever's supermarket sale.

Photos with Flash -

[poly800rock]

yeah, those are nice.....how's the fit on them?

[homi29]

And I'm glad they are making the back pockets smaller too (although annoyed that they didn't do that from the start - one of my few gripes with the cut of the dukes...)

thats good to hear, thanks for the heads up

[poly800rock]

just found these....my old ass gap bootlegs from 8 years ago...worn everyday for like 2.5 years straight when i was living in a dorm room at college. these started off as one wash...and man these have been through so much..

[poly800rock]

APC bootleg 2.5 years

Nudies RRDS 2.5 years

Fake Thai Evisu's bought in this state.

LET ME SAY, THAT I DID NOT FADE THESE EVISU's. Thought it was good porn. I got these off some Thai dude who probably wore them for like a year or so. They started out RAW but I DID NOT FADE THEM!

[viv1984viv]

Just joking, shit, you really beat the indigo out of them. Mad train tracks.

[Guest StuckOnStupid]

APC bootleg 2.5 years

Nudies RRDS 2.5 years

Fake Thai Evisu's bought in this state.

damn poly those evisus look phenomenal. did they start off raw?

[Circanineteen85]

So here are my Justin Original's that I bought last june and have been wearing every day since july 7th, except for the week I went home for thanksgiving because they had jsut gotten covered in mud at work and I thought it would be disrespectful to my mother to wear them for a family gathering. I starched them occasionally when they started losing stiffness, first using a can of niagra but later moving on to undiluted Sta-flo in a spraybottle. I soaked them in hot water when I first got them, then again at 4 months. I just machine washed them last night in hot water with Dr. Bronners peppermint. I wish I would have hand washed them now since i've developed some blowouts in my honeycombs from the denim being so stiff for so long.

Click the images for larger ones

Brand New, tried on once:

4 months, 2 soaks:

continued...

[Circanineteen85]

...continued

4 months, 2 soaks:

1 week shy of 7 months, 2 soaks & 1 wash:

a little vertical falling maybe?

the 7 month pictures came out lighter than they actually are, they're maybe only a tiny bit lighter then they were in the 4 month pictures, but the wear is more contrasting now...

[damnIam]

I really like those Justins. Very nice work.

[xcoldricex]

ddml nice to see some hawaii's. did you see that pic of the worn in sample pair i posted while i was in japan? they looked amazing.

poly, those fake evisu's are dope... i don't think mine broke in like that...

[Charlie Delta]

Fake Thai Evisu's bought in this state.

damn poly those evisus look phenomenal. did they start off raw?

I take it that this is because my sarcasm meter isn't properly working for me at the moment....

[dasman989]

I take it that this is because my sarcasm meter isn't properly working for me at the moment....

stuck on stupid?

[Charlie Delta]

^Hey, told you it wasn't working for me at the moment.

Anyway, back to denim....

[evisu 2000]

him buying them in that state does not mean they did not or could not have started off raw...

[Charlie Delta]

^hah, I didn't think about it that way yet, clever!

[HEWSINATOR]

When I first read I thought for a split moment that he meant in his home state (as in you can get fakes there)...so another way to think about it . But I figured it out pretty quick.

[Charlie Delta]

^ I also didn't think about it in that way, hmmm? Mysterious!