Samurai Jeans

[Potsnu]

I think I found the culprit to my leg twist and misalignment.

These seams aren't lined up at all, which explains why when laid flat neither leg opening is symmetrical. I checked all my pairs, this is the only one that is like this.

It wouldn't be so bad if the leg opening was more narrow and I was stacking. But I purposely hemmed these for no stacking so the major leg twist is really bothering me. Oh well I gotta live with it.

[Sinned]

I think I found the culprit to my leg twist and misalignment.

These seams aren't lined up at all, which explains why when laid flat neither leg opening is symmetrical. I checked all my pairs, this is the only one that is like this.

It wouldn't be so bad if the leg opening was more narrow and I was stacking. But I purposely hemmed these for no stacking so the major leg twist is really bothering me. Oh well I gotta live with it.

Did the tailor do this? or is a defect?

[chantheman]

seeing alex3000's black knights made me break out my s5000bk's and put them up to my black knights (not worn very much)

too many washes, a bunch of repairs. man i loved these jeans.

cant rep

[Alex3000]

Damn those look good, Samurai's black denim is amazing I'm tempted to buy a pair of 5000BK's soon. Hell some black jins would be sick.

[beautiful_FrEaK]

@Potsnu: is it the S0210XJ? Ask riff if he has the same problem..maybe it's a "feature"

poly: those S5000BK are so amazing and great to see them again!

[jim_n]

I think I found the culprit to my leg twist and misalignment.

These seams aren't lined up at all, which explains why when laid flat neither leg opening is symmetrical. I checked all my pairs, this is the only one that is like this.

It wouldn't be so bad if the leg opening was more narrow and I was stacking. But I purposely hemmed these for no stacking so the major leg twist is really bothering me. Oh well I gotta live with it.

my 210xj's are the exact same. sorry for the crappy phone pic. must just be the way they are constructed?

[beautiful_FrEaK]

so just like I thought...

but I dunno if that effects the leg twist. Is yours as massive, jim_n?

[jim_n]

my leg twist isn't straight down the middle as Potsnu's is but its still noticeable. I haven't hemmed mine yet, just soaked them last week.. crappy pic again but you can see the selvage lines up approximately with my 4th toe

[Alex3000]

Potsnu your jins are fine they all come like that. Embrace that twist!

[skootb]

Potsnu your jins are fine they all come like that. Embrace that twist!

i've never seen any like that

[Alex3000]

If you look at all the stock pictures they all look the same. I'm not sure if its a Wrangler detail or not but all the s0210xj pictures I've seen have the exact same thing.

[Ord]

Just got a pair of 710s and i would like to give them the famous and much talked about hot soak and hot tumble dry.

For some reason, this is very a popular treatment for Samurais. At least according to the conspicuous number of Samuraiphiles who swear by it as the holy grail for shrinking their denims

I've done hot soaks to ALL other jeans i own (among which PBJ, Flathead, Eternal, Sugar cane) but i've always been quite nervous about the hot tumble dry and never tried it (also because i would have to perform it at the laundromat down the road)

Is there anything, aside from the obvious inside-out, i should know before i give it a go?

I'm mostly concerned it may cause some creasing of some sort, which, given the nature of Samurai's denim, could become permanent.

That, on a pair of jeans i have to wear yet, would be a bad thing, in my book

Any suggestion on the matter is sincerely appreciated

[Megatron1505]

Why do you want to hot dry them, are they a mile too big for you or something? The only reason that I have heard of an initial soak being followed by a hot dry is to achieve maximum shrinkage if the jeans are unbearably big, same as any other denim. My advice would be that if they don't need it, don't do it.

[arcanum]

ord you can do 60 degree machine wash for epic shrinkage !!

[mikecch]

The Musashi special S634GX is up for pre-order now.

The closing pair for the Go-Rin no Sho series, limited to 300 pairs.

[aaronxxx]

in regards to the unaligned seams

does anyone have an idea why they would make them like that? i can't think of any advantage that would provide

[mikecch]

^ Which seams are unaligned on what jeans?

[Ord]

Ok, it didn't take much to convince me to revoke the tumble dry operation

Thanks guys for the input

[wonger]

So I was running drunk through the woods while camping the other week and managed to trip up on a rock and skuff the shin of one of my legs, any way to get that to blend in or go away? Right now it almost looks like I ran chalk on my earths.

[beautiful_FrEaK]

in regards to the unaligned seams

does anyone have an idea why they would make them like that? i can't think of any advantage that would provide

^ Which seams are unaligned on what jeans?

it's on the S0210XJ, the Wrangler repros...maybe for comofrt on the balls?!

Mike could heck on his Blue Bells if this is normal...

and about the S634GX: you're a little late Mike

[beautiful_FrEaK]

So I was running drunk through the woods while camping the other week and managed to trip up on a rock and skuff the shin of one of my legs, any way to get that to blend in or go away? Right now it almost looks like I ran chalk on my earths.

not much you can do about that...and worse: shins fade rather slowly from my experience.

got a similar faded spot on my Deniem after I fell from my bike (drunken of course)

[commodorewheeler]

Why do you want to hot dry them, are they a mile too big for you or something? The only reason that I have heard of an initial soak being followed by a hot dry is to achieve maximum shrinkage if the jeans are unbearably big, same as any other denim. My advice would be that if they don't need it, don't do it.

Samurais are notorious for requiring multiple washes/soaks to remove all of the shrinkage from them. If you want to get out as much shrinkage as possible in one shot, using the tumble dry is probably the most effective way of doing it.

[frzn]

I really like my Skull 5010XX 6x6 Raws and I think the S003JP's look cool, can anyone give me some info on them? Are they worth the extra hundred over the Skulls? They'll be really long on me, should I shrink them before I hem them? I never soaked or shrunk my Skulls.

[morse9443]

So these are the Void? Why are they buckle back, same cut as the other element models? Paging BF......

[kingsfall]

^no, that's the musashi. the void model already came out, has a dark greyish weft.

[Potsnu]

Potsnu your jins are fine they all come like that. Embrace that twist!

I guess I shall! Just wanted to make sure if any else had the same problem.

I think after Void I am done for jeans for the next 5 years lol!

[morse9443]

^no, that's the musashi. the void model already came out, has a dark greyish weft.

At BIG is earth, wind, fire and water. I thought this was the fifth and final element, Void with all black weft...

[Potsnu]

Can someone translate how exactly the Voids are dyed? I am getting something about Indigo, but Black. Wanted to see if the whole Charcoal over dye remains true.

[Potsnu]

At BIG is earth, wind, fire and water. I thought this was the fifth and final element, Void with all black weft...

That's my understanding as well and hasn't been released yet. Not sure if I can appreciate the cut or the cinch back. I have chicken legs so fuller and wider fits doesn't look good on me, unless I size down like 1 or 2 lol

[mikecch]

There are 6 pairs in total in this series, the 5 scrolls plus the Musashi jeans (which has the darkest colour of all).

Have a look at the Japanese Samurai retailers' websites for more details (e.g. 2nd).