Black jeans lovers!!!

[reallypeacedoff]

I'm sorry but black goes with every color. Or should I say, every color goes with black.

[Double 0 Soul]

From a visual pov.. i think a blue denim jacket looks much better with blue jeans than it does with black jeans .. for the same reason that i think a heavily worn denim jacket looks much better with heavily worn jeans.. i'm not at all keen on the shiney new o/w jacket with a battered old pair of jeans look.. it's not like any of us don't have numerous pairs of jeans or jackets so if i was wearing black jeans (not that i own black jeans) i wouldn't choose a blue denim jacket, i would choose something else.

 

From my perspective it's more to do with the thoughts it conjures up.. there was a time here in the UK during my formative years of the mid-80s when most of the double denim i/you saw worn was by folks larping the metal scene.. emulating bands like Metallica, Anthrax.. et al' . An era of tight fitting black denim with pale blue washed washed out Typ3's .. god, i fkin hated this era, i hated the music, i hated the back combed hair but most of all, i hated the fashion.. made worse because Def Leopard were fkin massive in the city.. then the late 80s happened and there was a seismic shift in culture (thank fuck) new fashions, new drugs, new music which created a chasm between the old and the new.. Seeing black jeans worn with a blue denim jacket will always trigger these memories for me.

We all carry this bias because clothing speaks to us.. it gives us an insight to the person you are and black / blue denim to me says this^ but i also appreciate, without this unreasonable bias .. you're fine to swing blue / black.. it's just not for me.

[ATWM]

^ I get this and love the personal response. 

blue / blue is usually better, I’ll concede that point. But sometimes you’d just rather different pants.

Anyways, I used to wear black denim all of the time. Just black 511s. It was pretty much the standard in the art / punk circles I used to be in more, and I do still like monochrome top to bottom.

Blue jackets were widely accepted on top of that, almost never raw though, and this was pretty separate from metal circles. I’m not a big metal fan (although some of it, yes), but generally if I’m going to accidentally evoke some bygone visual trope I’d much rather evoke punk or even metalhead than cowboy - not that really think either much applies (although I do love a good double denim, so I’m sure what other people see may evoke cowboy sometimes, but whatever).

[rbeck]

15 hours ago, SLAYER said:

Follow up on these 

These are lovely

[mlwdp]

Phigvel

a few washes

 

[MJF9]

For those with a predilection for black denim, these might be of interest from Simo... and there's also a new chore 

[aho]

7 hours ago, MJF9 said:

For those with a predilection for black denim, these might be of interest from Simo... and there's also a new chore 

Oh man this might be it for me; If I can get a 1937 in black that might be my ideal, really inspired by @SLAYER and @mlwdp here

[MJF9]

WoM
 

[rbeck]

Posted an update on my DIY jeans in the homemade jeans thread. Figured I'd share em here too. Fabric is 14oz black x gray denim from Nihon Menpu.

 

Edited May 26, 2025 by rbeck

[aho]

Just saw Resolute releasing two anniversary pairs:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKKf7mhOng-/?img_index=1&igsh=c3FsY201OXFwYng0

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

Nice development on tcb black 50s

[srudy]

Finally got a pair of these, looking forward to how they age!

Ooe yofukuten 

[MJF9]

Word of Mouth pre-order opening for 12 pairs only... see IG for deets

 

[mlwdp]

Bought another black Phigvel denim jean model 302 this time in regular instead of wide model.  Should be interesting the way I treat this pair.

[mlwdp]

Phigvel 302 straight model.  These are noticeably slimmer.

 

Edited August 20, 2025 by mlwdp

[mlwdp]

Fixed the cuffs on these and have been wearing them almost daily.  Can’t wait to see what they look like a year from now.

 

[southofnonorth]

I got these Cushman a couple of weeks back – love the fit but not how readily dirt and grime shows up on them.

[mlwdp]

@southofnonorththey’re black jeans of course they’re going to show dirt.  Interested to see how yours will look with some more wear.

Edited September 6, 2025 by mlwdp

[mlwdp]

Phigvel 302 black coming up on a year and given one wash so far...inseam has shrunken 1 inch so far.

 

[oomslokop]

interesting reflection slash mental gymnastics abt black denim from an artisan 

[UkeNo]

The new Denime 66B’s look very nice if anyone is hunting for black jeans currently. 

[mlwdp]

[Well27]

These jeans were some of the first which got me into this hobby.

black Edwin ED-80, which a nice colleague gave me.

Wore them a ton in the begining, but now they are too small.

i’m selling them, but thought I would post them here before that.

[mlwdp]

3 hand washes so far.  1 yr.