Learning moments in my denim journey
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A friend of mine was in hospital, in the bed next to him was a guy with 2 broken legs. They got talking and he said he had bust them parachuting.
Friend - So what happened, parachute not open?
Victim - No I was the instructor and I jumped first, then my pupil jumped after me. He got into problems with his chute, so I was watching him and giving him instructions over the walk-in talkie. He got it sorted. I breathed a sigh of relief looked down and I was 500 feet from the ground and had forgotten to open my own chute….(I made the 500 feet bit up because I can’t remember how high he was - suffice to say, his chute did not slow him down enough)
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@Oaktavia i'm interested, lets see em!
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I gave a nearly new pair of Unbranded jeans to my son as an experiment. Not sure if he caught the bug, but he likes them and wears them almost daily, without convincing. Fades coming along nicely. He got mud on them fishing with his uncle, who tried to 'help' by throwing them directly in the laundry right-side out, followed by the dryer. They shrunk and got some of the strongest vertical fade lines I've ever seen. So my dumb ass gave him a pair of 888-142s that were a bit too slim on me....lets see what happens this time.
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
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Love it @WhiskeySandwich Now make sure you hide the credit card…
“Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses”- Virginia Woolf
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@neph93 LOL ...i used it as an excuse to get myself another pair
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That’s a pro move @WhiskeySandwich 🫡
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@neph93 said in I messed up (A place for Denim Mistakes and Failures):
Alternative thread name: “Learning moments in my denim journey”
The educator in you has spoken. Turning a negative statement into a positive one.
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One big learning of mine: with denim lore, if it sounds stupid, it’s probably bullshit. Soak em when you get em, wash em when they stink, no need to writhe around in the surf at the beach or wear them in the tub to break them in.
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Bought a XHS last year that did not fit me and thought I'll lose some weight and wear them this year... Now I'm 8 kg up since last year
(But already lost a little and keep working on that)
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This is the shirt (235-BLK) that I once considered 'ruined' after one bad wash...
Subsequent washes evened out its flaws, and now it has a level of character unmatched my no other shirt in my collection.
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@WhiskeySandwich like one of your little fade minions. Or Sim City fades edition. Dress your characters and watch them go about creating their fades. Good family fun!!
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Echoing @T4920, my biggest learning moment involved a brand new pair of XHS and a small child showing first symptoms of the Rota virus. That is to say violent projectile vomitting.
Having been drenched in puke I paniced and washed them without flipping, soaking or checking spin. The result was marbling and abrasion lines galore. I was distraught.
I put the jeans to work re-landscaping the garden (documented somewhere on here, I think at the start of the «Working in your workwear thread).
As a testament to their current glory about seven years later, that very pair were recently used on the IH Instagram as to promote the XHS restock.
@AdamJ maybe you have photo’s you could post? I’m off IG at the moment, otherwise I’d link.
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What about these bad boys? 50 wears last summer/fall while working on art. Plus lots of loads in the washer and dryer with these. I like where they are going and plan to keep up the process. What do you all think? Wild looking I think.
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"Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93
WTB IHJ-72- XXL/XXXL
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Looks cool to me. I think it’s really hard for heads to break away from achieving the balanced, symmetrical fades that come with consistent, but reserved wear. But to truly just treat em like a low budget pair of mall jeans…then you’re really stamping them with your individual personality. Dig it, Stevie.
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@Mizmazzle right on man thanks for that response, I'm diggin it too. I will also say what helps support this experiment is the brand new pair I have on ice till this fall.
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I learned that I don't like cell phone fades in my front pockets. So I stopped carrying my phone in that pocket and have found other ways to carry it. Not the most exciting lesson learned, but it's something. Other than that, I just wear my stuff a lot.
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