Heavyweight Denim Championships 2013-2015 - Official Thread
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HC-IH-83
Samurai Jeans S5000AI24oz
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nice fit!
Are they rope dyed or hank dyed? -
To introduce myself:
I am interested in denim and vintage clothing, which I also collect. In Germany are only very limited options cause denim was established in europe only in the 50s.
I have deliberately chosen this model although i know that it will not fade with the same strong (high) contrast as a dark blue one. The reason why i ve chosen these is that this jeans shows the highest standards in denim manufacturing.
An interesting feature of this model is that the warp thread (2.5 mm) (weft 3 mm) was dipped by hand about 20 times in one skein, which creates consciously a slightly irregular color structure.
The jeans were bought in Berlin at DC4 japanese denim store.
I was wearing them while soaking (March 18, 2013) and dipped them dry to get a large number of foldings (combs) from the beginning.
So far I had worn them about 50 days. -
nice fit!
Are they rope dyed or hank dyed?He is not often in this forum but i try to answer for him. It is this denim:
http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/2nd/item/sj-s5000ai24oz/
He bought it from DC4. I guess it isn't rope dyed although i couldn't find out how it's done technicaly. All I find is this:
"Dyeing: A dyeing method of 職人技 repeating that I let the original goods dyed deep blue can touch an increase, air when you soak gyve (you lend) which bundled up a thread in an indigo dye vat and attach a natural indigo plant to a thread and oxidize 20 several times. THE GYVE IRREGULARITY (IRREGULARITY OF THE OXIDATION) CHARACTERIZING THE GYVE DYEING IS A FLAVOUR PECULIAR TO INDIGO DYEING NOT TO BE POSSIBLE TO INDIGO DENIM BY THE ROPE DYEING.
*The dyeing irregularity, please enjoy the taste as personality of natural goods dyed deep blue."But you should know it better!;)
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yeah, I "should"
Usually AI denim is hank dyed but sometimes you will find rope dyed ones, which will fade like other rope dyed denim. My question was more in that direction: for a denim fading contest, why you would take a hank dyed denim. it wouldn't be my choice -
But it looks different than your 24 oz denim right?
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15 good wears
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HC-IH-32 with a brief check-in.
Sweated like mad yesterday on an asphalt roof cleaning and moss treating. The MBBs were good because they gripped the shingles and I didn't slide off to my death, but bad in that on an 80 degree day, on a 90 degree roof, they felt like 110 degrees.
I believe, though, that I can call "Numero Uno" on putting a hole in my MBBs. Legitimate, didn't mean it, hole.
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HAHAHAHAHA
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One month fit update. HC-IH-26
Love these, they are so comfortable. Still having trouble nailing down what to do with the cuffs, but I'm gonna let things settle for a few more months and figure it out then
I'm lucky enough to be able to wear these to work but besides that it's been a slightly interesting month. Within the first 24 hrs of wearing them, I had a giant glass of red wine dumped on me which prompted a second soak in as many days. Spent a week sitting on a plastic cooler getting tossed around a Great Lake fishing, and just generally chasing the kids around. Pretty happy how things are coming along. This denim is something special.
aaand on a side note, my denim vault t randomly showed up about a week or so ago. Thought it was gone forever!
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Shoot yourself in the ass?
Not quite. Like all my other jeans, my MBB's have finally gotten the one mark consistent to all of them: a hole where the lower snap of my Tanner Goods workman wallet is located.
Now they're mine for sure.
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Mahlon, great fit and I love the Tender style cuffs. I've also gone back and forth about cuffing v stacking and it is a seemingly tough decision.
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Mahlon, great fit and I love the Tender style cuffs. I've also gone back and forth about cuffing v stacking and it is a seemingly tough decision.
Thanks Anesthetist! This incarnation of cuff is growing on me. I went with the full length inseam knowing I wear a cuff for everything, I underestimated how much extra material there would be left to cuff. I refuse to stack them, only because it drives me crazy!! Envious of those who can pull it off. I think I may send them for a hem after a year or so, once they have sorted themselves out, and hopefully end up with one good sized cuff. first world problems eh?
Killer boots btw!