denime xx type & 66xx type 2 year contest

[mr.invincible]

wait, wait....

ipkus....the one with the crazy external fadezooorrzzzz??

if he joins too, this is a challenge.

salaam, when are you getting your pair? I was going to get a black pair, but too many heaters in here is hard to pass up.

[pomata]

did you guys iron out the crazy lateral fold these jeans have?

I did it this morning cause after a month of wear it was still there very much

[beautiful_FrEaK]

which fold do you mean exactly? the one they came with, because the fly wasn't buttoned up and open?

[pomata]

no the one runnin along the ouseam

[beautiful_FrEaK]

mhh...there is none on my pair. Too bad you already ironed it...would have been interested to see it

[amardeep]

hah, I probably should have, that fold has a crazy fade for me already, though mine is more prominent on the inseam

[salaami]

i can't wait to get these jeans. when i get them the plan is to pour boiling water over them to kill all the little monsters, then hot soak them bitches, then give em a hot hand-wash with a lil' bronners. i want all the starch out off the bat. then i'll turn machine-dry them inside out(high-heat) until they are almost dry, then iron them inside out until completely dry. after all that they should be shrunk as much as possible. the ironing will steam shrink the denim, make it more crisp(for however long that will last), and get all the dryer wrinkles out. i like to iron raws after the initial soak(s) so that all the creases are from me all the way. so by the time i finish ironing they will be just like raw, but shrunk...i've got it down to a science. they will never touch an iron after that.

[almostnice]

OMG.stop bothering us.get them.soak them.wear them.win the contest.send winningprize to me.

[salaami]

i know, but until i save up the $$$ blathering on about them and asking miniscule questions about them is the only thing keeping me sane! all i know is that denime started in 1988,and the name comes from ''serge DE NIMEs''. and what color is the selvage lame? gordon said he was doing an interview with hayashi-san, but i don't know when it will be posted on the BiG site. i live for new denim info/factoids. as high as expectations might be, i doubt i'll win the contest unless my pair ends up uber-spectacular, which i doubt.

[Flash]

if they end up anything like your fullcounts you could be in with a shout.

[almostnice]

^^fucking maniac.cant help ...

[almostnice]

...which tells me me i did the right decision organazing the donationthing to you!

[salaami]

again, what color is the selvage lame? it looks like the same selvage-lame color of warehouse denim, and orangish brown.

[almostnice]

i thing its some lame orange...

[salaami]

i read somewhere that denime also has jeans manufactured in china, and they aren't as good as the MiJ. can anyone expound on this?

a little history lesson, respect the archtect!

Entrepreneur Yoshiyuki Hayashi was 31 when he launched the Denime brand in 1988. His goal was to recreate the classic American jeans from the 1950s. Hayashi's obsession led him to Okayama Prefecture, a traditional cotton weaving area also known for its indigo dying and denim production. He asked numerous textile makers whether they could produce a denim of unusual quality-rough, stiff and shrinks when washed-opposed to the smooth, even-textured jeans that populated the market at the time. His fortunes turned when he found Shinya, a textile maker located in Ibara, whose then president Masahiro Sato suggested recreating the garments using a shuttle loom collecting dust in the corner of his shop. Such looms nearly became obsolete after jeans exploded onto the fashion scene in Japan in the 1970s, ushering in the use of more efficient looms.

Sato restored his shuttle loom and experimented until he finally reproduced a denim that matched a sample given to him by Hayashi. Hayashi and Sato were not alone in their quest to create the perfect pair of vintage jeans. The 1980s saw a surge of interest in vintage jeans, which attracted a number of enterprising individuals to the scene, including Shigeharu Tagaki, who designed jeans for the Studio D'Artisan brand in 1982...

[big truck]

My XX type were only shipped today:(

What a depressing weekend

[pomata]

interesting shit salaami

the selvage is kinda pale orange in the 66xx, Tokyo edition and 15th type as well

[amardeep]

[salaami]

will beg for jawns...shameless, isn't it?

[tvshooter]

^ it's called UNITY. all for one and one for all. or somethin like that.

[salaami]

good looking out for your contribution kind sir, like my grandma said 'your kindness will never be forgotten'.it's the literal meaning of putting your $ where your mouth is...

i wanted to change my avatar since the jets lost to the fucking bills last week on national TV(our second TV loss in two weeks to division opponents) so i googled 'osaka5' and got this new 5-pointed star image as a search response. supposedly this is an image related to osaka and it has five points so i thought it was perfect.

2 quick questions:

1. when i order, t5 will chainstitch the jeans to my requested length?

2. which of the two models offered is hayashi-san rocking in the pics with benny?

[big truck]

Arrived a bit quicker than I was expecting. Given them a hot soak but not enough shrinkage so in the washer.

Shoud be wearing them tomorrow/

[Atzec]

^wow, shipping to you has been pretty fast.

please remember to also post in the take 5 forum to officially sign up to the contest.

(same for anyone who hasn´t signed up there, yet. don´t know if anyone´s still missing?)

http://www.take5jeans.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=90&sid=d39b321047807eb82e1bbbd5b55972c5

[salaami]

cheers big truck, may i join your ranks soon. question: yours seem to have very little banana yellow stitching. what model did you get, and is the stitching monotone?

[big truck]

salaami - its pretty yellow. I got the XX type. Not too montone. Anticipation is high.

[salaami]

i think i'm digging the xxtype too. i've been wearing my warehouse for the past week and i'm digging the looser fit the more i wear them. i've only given them like 30 wears in the past 11 months and they are fading already, despite me babying the shit out of them. the denime denim seems similar as far as fade-speed, so this will be interesting...

[Atzec]

1. when i order, t5 will chainstitch the jeans to my requested length?

2. which of the two models offered is hayashi-san rocking in the pics with benny?

1. yes, they do. (think it´s an extra $5 or sth)

2. he´s wearing a 66xx

[salaami]

damn, i repped atzec and his rep jumped 3 points. i feel powerful all of a sudden...it kinda sucks that they charge 5 bones for a chainstitch, but fuck it, it's worth it. if hayashi-san is going with the 66xx, who am i to differ?

[tvshooter]

i don't even wanna be in VA when Salaam gets his Denimes. he's gonna cum so hard everyone's gonna get soaked.

[beatle]

^ it's called UNITY. all for one and one for all. or somethin like that.

E PLURIBUS UNUM

every quarter counts****