Do BLACK levi 501 STF's fade

[cq45]

Do they fade at all? ive been wearing mine for about a year and 6 months and they still look new. i soaked in hot water and theyre not that loose on me but still no fades :confused:

[Cue]

Um, think you maybe wearing jeans with both the weft and the warp dyed black. if that is the case - nup, sorry fella

[cq45]

Um, think you maybe wearing jeans with both the weft and the warp dyed black. if that is the case - nup, sorry fella

damn that sucks.

anybody else tried?

[choice_genes]

I've had a pair of black warp/black weft levis before. (not the STFs, but practically speaking the same thing...). yeah they faded. not like normal indigo jeans, where there is a white weft, but they still faded.

I have pics up in the evolution of jeans thread somewhere. check it out.

[jyoni]

I have a pair of those cheap black 501s. I haven't even taken the tags off though.

[ChaseDizzy]

Weft color doesn't matter.

[grouse_allergy]

Wait, let me get this straight... you're wondering after a year and a half (when most jeans retire and move to Florida) whether they'll finally start fading? I don't think so. I hope you hadn't been wearing them with that hope all this time.

[kobot]

they should be showing some interesting signs of wear after a year and a half though, post pix

[kapay]

All jeans fade. All clothes fade. Period. Washed or raw. However, if you're wearing these washed black levi's and then washing them even semi-regularly, all you'll eventually get is a muddy grey pair of jeans. They don't fade as well as raw jeans for a reason but I do have a friend that wore his washed levi's to death and managed to get decent but not beautiful fades.

[midnight]

Black jeans arent going to fade as fast as indigo ones. Also, they probably just won't fade as fast/as much as a pair of samurais or some other type of japanese denim. For future reference questions like this go in the small questions thread.

[selaviso]

1.5 years and no fading.... you wear em once a month or what?

[hamburga]

Do they fade at all? ive been wearing mine for about a year and 6 months and they still look new. i soaked in hot water and theyre not that loose on me but still no fades :confused:

The black stf's haven't even been out 1.5 years. They came out around August I believe? Anyway, they have a white weft so they should fade.

[choice_genes]

Just to clarify -

ALL JEANS FADE IF YOU WEAR THEM.

[sneakeraddict]

didnt know there were black STFs...

do these have white wefts?

be interestd to see pics of these actually

[Charlie Delta]

Weft color doesn't matter.

[cq45]

The black stf's haven't even been out 1.5 years. They came out around August I believe? Anyway, they have a white weft so they should fade.

im not sure exactly when i got em but i wear em religiously. they're my 2nd favorite jeans next to my new standards. and i haven't washed em yet. honeycombs and whiskers are they're but no fades. not even a wallet fade ...

[Paul T]

If they're all black, I suspect they're overdyed - altho the process has changed over the year (there was also a 501 model which used warp-dyed thread). Hence, the dye works in a completely different way to most jeans and, yes, the dye washes out eventually but doesn't wear out...

[salaami]

if they still look new after 1.5 years, we might want to say no with confidence. btw, weft color doesnt matter. the warp thread dye penetration, and that particular dyes affinity to fading matter only. look at the pbj oo7. the warp and weft are dyed, and they fade beautifully.