The Evolution of Jeans: Pictures, Scones and Tea

[ChaseDizzy]

they are Nudie Ssk. Thanks Dino. I'll be missing her on my one month with the KMWs. overseas sucks =[...not really kind of

[wild style]

Looks like they fit her perfectly! Dope.

[Guest soleFLY]

nice diors. is that a tanner belt?

[axtsang]

you give them to your girlfriend? cute.

seriously.

+1. Shit, I feel the love. (no homo)

[dino might]

is she taller than you though chase? the ankle fades give it away

[edmond]

i think she justwears it a little high..

[constant struggle]

Here are my APC new cures, @ 3 months, with 1 rain soak @ 2 months...

Also the past month I havn't been able to wear them much, since I work fulltime and can't wear jeans to work... :|

Going to wash in 1 month ( i don't care if they are "not ready" )

These were taken in direct sunlight with no flash, so pretty much natural color

Stuff starting to come in, nothing spectacular yet...

[joey_formal]

watchman your eternals look fucking nuts.

dizzy those nudies have a great fade.

[watchman]

why thanks joey. where is the JR update?

[joey_formal]

ill post it as soon as i have a camera again my girl took it with her to a lake trip with her family. they're looking gnarly good indigo loss alot of wear still even thought its been 95.

[watchman]

shit man, you dont have to tell me. I was wearing the sammies in spain and sweating my ass off, and VA is even worse.

[joey_formal]

i can only imagine, esp. since those samies are 17oz thats nuts man.

[xcoldricex]

will put these in here for posterity's sake:

so here are my suminando's before i sent them off to 45rpm soho to get some repairs done again. they're 2.5 years old, worn for half that time maybe. there's very little whiskering because i travelled a lot in them (to shady-ish places) and had to keep my passport/wallet in my front pockets. the blue hue that comes through is hard to capture.. but it's evident in the right light. love these jeans, but they take forever to break in... maybe that's a good thing though

[Corbin Law]

something about 45rpm

even when there is little noticable wear

and they are relatively dark

they have this quality to them that is hard to find anywhere else.

[corbu]

5 month RRDS

4 soaks, 1st wash this week

[Dick Danger]

^running low on electrons?

[erbs]

coldrice- nice job with the 45 RPM's. It's good to see some variety once in a while. How tight did you wear them?

[hockeydavey]

i wanted to be able to wear my APCs outside of work. wearing dusty clothes like that isn't really healthy and i'd prefer not to be followed by a cloud of dust. i still kind of regret not wearing them to work though, since the results would be much more interesting.

I work construction too, I've been working on a pair of RRLs. I wore them for about a month or two on and off before I wore them to work, and I have worn them at work for 2 months straight 8 hours a day. I think I'm going to wash them this weekend as they are disguisting now, I have never soaked or washed them yet. I'll try to get pics up before/after I wash.

[Leopold]

Nice Jeans corbu.

Here are my Straight Svens, about 6.5 months I think, no wash only 1 rinse.

[GoodHustle]

Leopold, those look great. Did you get them tapered by any chance?

[DemagogueInDenim]

something about 45rpm

even when there is little noticable wear

and they are relatively dark

they have this quality to them that is hard to find anywhere else.

really? I think if I'd feel a little dissonance if I wore mine for that long, and paid as much as I imagine those cost, and they looked like that.

[toufu]

Leopold, those look great. Did you get them tapered by any chance?

yeah....they seem unusual slim for svens

great fit + fade nonetheless

[Sympathy-For-The-Denim]

My alltime favs, Levis s501xx from LVCs season 2005,

worn several month about 3-4 days a week, fit very loose,

many hot soaks and two 95 degrees celius hot washes.

[hockeydavey]

Alright here are some crappy quality pics of my RRL slim bootcuts.

As I said earlier, been worn for about 3-4 months, two of those being hard, everyday wear on a construction site. One initial warm soak, no other soaks or washes. I probably will do a wash this weekend because they are disguisting now! I'll try to get higher quality pics in natural light before/after wash, because these don't do them justice. I'm also thinking about tapering these, has anyone ever done this to RRLs? The bootcut works fine over my steel toe work boots, other than that I hate the bootcut.

[Leopold]

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, I hade them tapered from the knee and down, from 20 cm hem to 17.5 w:) hich I deeply regret atm.

[tweeds]

sympathy - interesting sort of crease in the leg you have there. do you iron your jeans?

[Sympathy-For-The-Denim]

sympathy - interesting sort of crease in the leg you have there. do you iron your jeans?

thanks! no, actually i don´t iron them, but in 2004 LVC had a limited edition(you can finde em in the LVC catalogue thread) of the s501xx, called "rust and blue" these where imo the best prewashed of levis, also these had the iron creases... i took it as inspiration for my pair and ironed them from bottom to the knees(cause i didn´t want to loose my combs) and then i used sandpaper on that sharp crease to maintain that look, from now i don´t have to iron them anymore

[tweeds]

yes...i remember reading that cowboys would wear their jeans with an ironed crease as well as starch to make the jeans look fresh. does the sandpaper help the jeans to crease naturally down the leg even without ironing?

also, are the arcs also painted on a la wartime levi's?

all in all a very comfortable looking pair of jeans.

[Sympathy-For-The-Denim]

hm.., in fact I don´t want a real crease, but it should look like a vintage jeans, which once, many years ago had always been ironed by the first owner

I have to mention, that this was the only time, I used sandpaper on them, all other fading and creases came naturally.

yes, these are a perfect repro, the arcuates are painted, the pocket lining is made of shirt clothes, laurel leaf donat button, reduced rivets(these were the first 501 without crotch rivet and cinch, all was gone due to wartime regulations) these s501xx´s are much more authentic than the 1990s 555 valencia repro´s... this why I love em, it´s in the details

[ChaseDizzy]

dino-no she's not taller than me...we're the same height..the jeans shrunk in the inseam because i forgot to stretch them when they were damp =x...also she doesn't sag like i do. thanks for the posi comments though guys.