The Evolution of Jeans: Pictures, Scones and Tea

[HEWSINATOR]

Mass update of all my jeans:

RRDG: Worn hard for about 9 months then maybe a total of a month past then.

Coming on 2 years in October IIRC. Some previous pics can be found at http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showpost.php?p=187728&postcount=1212

[HEWSINATOR]

Eternals worn almost daily for a year, a couple hard washes and many soaks.

Some previous pics can be found here http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showpost.php?p=291139&postcount=175

Wow, pics not nearly as good as I thought they would be. I guess you can not stand in your light . I will have to get you guys some better pics.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3554/img2037cv0.jpg

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9268/img2036lp2.jpg

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7865/img2038kp8.jpg

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5811/img2039ua9.jpg

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5668/img2040fe5.jpg

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5936/img2041we9.jpg

[HEWSINATOR]

Hopefully my SJ pics were better. These are over a year old. IDK when I bought them exactly but have been worn very intermittently. Probably 3 months in total though. These wear very little in my experience.

[HEWSINATOR]

And my 2 week old Sammys. Got some flooring glue on one knee already and car polish on the other. No wear but lightening on the knee, but thought hey, while I am taking the worst pics of my life, why not make these look like crap too.

Well that is all, and I learned two things through the last hour I took to post this stuff:

1. When you realize your pics are crap, redo them, it is not taking the pics that takes time but posting them.

2. There NEEDS to be a faster way to upload pics. This has actually taken me an hour to do this. IDK what I am doing wrong.

[Dex_star]

haha yea uploading is a pain... do you resize your pics before uploading?

or do you resize using the imagesahck thiing... i think its faster to do it yourself

and also if you have photobucket... you can masss upload i think like up to 12 images or somehthing

regardless.. we need better pics of your eternals

[meta]

ANDEWHALL v3 grifters - one wash - three months

These things were the fastest breaking denim I have ever had.. I was able to wear them for three months before the crotch blew out to unwearable status and the backpocket became unstitched. Still, the denim itself started to show wear within like the first three days of. The things faded so quick, I wonder what they would have looked like if I could have worn them longer. They have been sitting in the closet for a while, but Ande sent over some denim swatches for me to do some repairs on them, so I decided to give them a wash and post pictures.

FRONT:

BACK:

ANDE w/ APC's:

death of the crotch:

http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crotchdeathxd1.jpg

next up: uniqlo slim fit raws

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7687/uniqloqe5.jpg

[Dex_star]

this is gonna be my first time saying this.... but you NEED stronger stuff

good job

[gimmegimme]

1. When you realize your pics are crap, redo them, it is not taking the pics that takes time but posting them.

2. There NEEDS to be a faster way to upload pics. This has actually taken me an hour to do this. IDK what I am doing wrong.

I find tinypic to be pretty fast.

Your sams don't look like they have much wear at all...or is it just the pic?

[evilgeniusdan]

You must be incredibly hard on your jeans. I've had grifters since february and I have no sign of crotch blowout nor are any of the pockets coming apart. Mine aren't anywhere near as faded either. Granted I only wear them a couple days a week, and I'm mostly sitting around. Beautiful jeans though.. and they have a nice kind of dusty subtle fade.

[meta]

I ordered sufu660s super last second, I hope I like the fit.

[rome1]

I've seen such varied results with peolple's grifters. Makes me wonder more exactly what it takes to break a pair of denim down.

[fatchino]

Does anyone else get ass-whiskers??

I must learn how to avoid them ... my skulls have 'em and now my samurais are developing them quickly.

I'd guess it's something to do with not having an exact fit, but my skulls are pretty much spot on. :confused:

Wow to the Grifters above ... hope the repairs go well ... should be worth it.

[gimmegimme]

I must learn how to avoid them ... my skulls have 'em and now my samurais are developing them quickly.

I'd guess it's something to do with not having an exact fit, but my skulls are pretty much spot on. :confused:

Wow to the Grifters above ... hope the repairs go well ... should be worth it.

I don't even care anymore...I think some of us just get them...oh well.

[rome1]

^^these ass whiskers--

they are characteristics that resemble the wearer in their full potential of the denim itself. I get them with on some jeans but not others, but I always appriciate them when they are around.

[gimmegimme]

^^these ass whiskers--

they are characteristics that resemble the wearer in their full potential of the denim itself. I get them with on some jeans but not others, but I always appriciate them when they are around.

Exactly. When I posted those pics I was just wondering why I never saw them on anyone else!

[HEWSINATOR]

I find tinypic to be pretty fast.

Your sams don't look like they have much wear at all...or is it just the pic?

Just evenings for the last couple weeks. I worked construction before I went back to school so would not wear them during the day.

[HEWSINATOR]

Ok, here we go: Evolution of Hewsinator's photography:

GimmeGimme, thanks for the Tiny Pic rec. I usually use 2and2 but it is down every once in a while. Tiny Pic is very similar. I like having the direct link right there.

[gimmegimme]

Just evenings for the last couple weeks. I worked construction before I went back to school so would not wear them during the day.

I have the same pair that I've been wearing for maybe a week or two, and they're showing a lot of wear already...and stitching on one of the pockets is already coming off.

[rome1]

Hews do you write the date that you started wearing the jeans or when you purchased them on the pocket bag? I write it on the tag of every jean I buy (the date I started wearing them) on the reverse side of it.

[fatchino]

Ok, here we go: Evolution of Hewsinator's photography

Your S0110XJ's are looking better than mine ... Keep at it.

[HEWSINATOR]

Hews do you write the date that you started wearing the jeans or when you purchased them on the pocket bag? I write it on the tag of every jean I buy (the date I started wearing them) on the reverse side of it.

Ya, did it on those and more neatly on my new Samurais. Makes it easy.

[destructodisk]

meta great grifters!

What did you do in them to get them to fade so quickly?

I've had my grifters since late March and I've worn them about 75% of the days up until now and they're nowhere near as faded.

[evilgeniusdan]

meta great grifters!

What did you do in them to get them to fade so quickly?

I've had my grifters since late March and I've worn them about 75% of the days up until now and they're nowhere near as faded.

I'm pretty sure meta is a machine, because, dammit, grifters don't fade that fast, if anything.. they're a little bit stubborn.

[destructodisk]

I don't know I think they fade pretty fast. I'm going to throw my grifters in for their first machine wash right now (they've had two cold soaks) then retire them to a weekend/work/skate jean so I can really beat em up. They're coming along nicely.

I'll post pics during another weekend when I have some more time to take pics and whatnot.

[edwithoutahead]

Hews do you write the date that you started wearing the jeans or when you purchased them on the pocket bag? I write it on the tag of every jean I buy (the date I started wearing them) on the reverse side of it.

On my newest pair of jeans I carved stuff into the backs of the buttons/rivits (although I have to work on doing a neater job at it), I never thought about writing on the pocket bags. Good idea:)

[HEWSINATOR]

Ya, somebody else on the forum mentioned they did it a long time ago and it is just a simple easy way to keep track. Only problem is I got a bit of blue on my under garments for a day or two.

[skiniks]

why not just save the date in a notepad file? :confused:

[Dick Danger]

notepad sucks, a true connoisseur would use BBEdit

[sevennus]

I posted these about a month and a half ago, but they've since gotten really dirty and torn.

This is after a wash and some repairs (done by me, obviously), I'm probably going to hang 'em up in a couple months in favor of something a little looser.

[HEWSINATOR]

why not just save the date in a notepad file? :confused:

What, like have a file for bills, pay stubs, and jeans? IDK about going that far.