J. Crew's New Raw Denim

[nycsurfer530]

no i'm on 45th and madison

[dino might]

^^I'm on broadway

[Vinneus]

awesome, im always in, ill just yell sufu discount.... haha

[nycsurfer530]

haha that works,

dino might do u work for j crew on bway mens shop??

[dino might]

yup

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[Vinneus]

just got 3 pairs of the JCrew x Levis collab.... ill post updates and pics once i get them unpacked... 501xx, 501 salt soaked and 501 rigid

[grundletaint]

how is there a 4 page discussion on this without pics?

PICS YO! PICS!

[nycsurfer530]

hahaha grundletaint dont worry about it. I'm working on pics i lost the usb for my camera so once i get that i'll have pics up, hopefully within the week

[rufio]

^^I'm kinda weirded out about those salt-soaked Levi's being "oven baked to create an authentic broken-in look and feel". levis x pillsbury? Interested to see fit pics anyway.

[nycsurfer530]

see i dont like the fit of the levi's 501, to me the rise is way to high (comes up well above my waist) and they're baggy but granted i do like a slim fit

[nycsurfer530]

this is size W29 L32

Post 2 weeks of wear everyday, no wash, no

[nycsurfer530]

two weeks, no wash no soak

[Raoul Duke]

Exposed coin pocket selvage is whack.

[Vinneus]

thank you!!! agreed!

[nycsurfer530]

yeah, im not a big fan of the selvedge pocket either

[tigerformula]

those suck for $250. the backpocket shape is kind of weird too.

[raspberries]

those are almost exactly the same as my gaps.

with the exception of the line going through the back pocket.

[ph1l]

yea that was my first thought..looks just like gap denim

[nycsurfer530]

except gaps is made in china, and treated to not fade, and have a completely different fit, and different selvedge color... just saying

[blm14]

^ those differences not worth $150+ difference in price.

[nycsurfer530]

haha oh definitely everything j crew sells is overpriced. the only reason why i'm trying out these is because i work for j crew.

[chantheman]

J. Crew, who i coincidentally work for as a sales associate, has recently released a raw denim. Despite my association with the company i still feel very speculative about the quality of the denim. So, I bought a pair to see how it is. I must start out that it feels nothing like a pair of Samurais,

It is Raw but it is not shrink to fit, it is a sanforized raw denim. It has a good weight to wear during spring and summer. J. Crew recommends to wear at least 60x before first wash but i am going to go a few months without washing to see just how qualitative the fading is while maintaining a well made product.

I'm not sure what to expect as this is the first truly raw denim J. Crew has made. I'm not expecting it to be nearly as nice as evisu, Samurai or fullcount but since it was priced at 240$ I do expect some good fading. Over the next few weeks I'll be posting pics to show the progression of the denim. Hopefully this turns out a gem find for a summer denim but we'll see.

haha yeah it actually sounds like those levi's because it comes with a little bag and on the bag it says wear 60x before washing.

I never said the denim was great though but since i work for J Crew i'd try it out

haha oh definitely everything j crew sells is overpriced. the only reason why i'm trying out these is because i work for j crew.

do you work for j.crew?

[Vinneus]

nah, i think he used the student discount or something... hahaha lets let this thread die hard already.

[nycsurfer530]

cool guy, your unreservedly right, i'm making up where i work for absolutely no reason at all just so that i can post pics of some jeans on a website, that really makes so much sense. thanks for enlightening us

[fobsquad]

cool guy, your unreservedly right, i'm making up where i work for absolutely no reason at all just so that i can post pics of some jeans on a website, that really makes so much sense. thanks for enlightening us

i think he's pointing out the fact that you keep saying

i work for Jcrew

rather than something like

i work at a Jcrew store

which is what i assume you mean.

[Goldfish]

I think he's just poking fun at the fact that this dude felt a need to say that he works at/for JCrew in like every post...

[Vinneus]

yes, that was the joke. it was only a joke, in good fun. if we cant move on, and if no one else actually own these denims. lets let this die?

[Guest mattes]

two weeks, no wash no soak

It looks very similar to my selvage jeans from Uniqlo for $39..It has selvage coin pocket as well.

[nycsurfer530]

the uniqlo selvedge is 80$ not sure how you got it for 39. all their normal denim is 39$, and the j. crew jeans feel a whole lot better than the uniqlo.

[nycsurfer530]

oh and mattes love gaffel kolsch