Introduce Yourself Here
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@DepartedHeart said in Introduce Yourself Here:
Welcome to the forum.
Can’t to go down this rabbit hole.
Once you venture down that path there's no return
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@Tago-Mago Thank you! I am already sucked in and I’ve barely even begun.
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Hello everyone, been lurking for a bit and thought I'd type up a bit of an intro. I've always been a jeans and T-shirt guy except for a minute around 2015 that I tried to get into chinos, so anyway I was living in Los Angeles and needed a new pair of jeans for whatever reason and there was an army/navy shop in one of the trendy hipster neighborhoods, and I love me a good army/navy shop. This being California, there was an entire aisle-long rack of Levi's shrink-to-fit and I thought hmmm, what's with this? Well wearing those for a long while the cigarette pack I keep in my front pocket wore through the thigh and for the first time ever, maybe, I thought about jeans as a thing worth thinking about.
The Levi's STF phase lasted a while and I tried getting into menswear and when I moved to New Orleans bought some linen pants of all things and was just having a god awful time of an identity crisis and so finally I accepted that while, yes, menswear looks amazing and I could scroll the lookbook on Permanent Style all day, I am a person who lives in jeans and black T shirts and black Chucks, so decided kind of out of the blue that if this is my role in life then I'm going to wear the very best jeans and black T shirts (not much you can do about the chucks), but the first problem here is you have to define "best" and down the rabbit hole I went. Fit, silhouette, denim, and on and on and on. Searched r/rawdenim forever. Walked into Iron Shop Provisions in New Orleans, and the lady working there at the time fitted me in a pair of 14oz broken twill 666s, and IH has been my grail jeans ever since--heavy denim sucks in NOLA humidity and lord knows the 666 was the wrong fit for me, and I didn't have a great sense of my bodily dimensions to begin with and plus I've put on some weight over the past couple years etc. etc. etc. but no other brand has spoken to me on so deep a level as IH, just nothing else compares ya' know? That lady at Iron Shop either saved me a lot of heartache
trying other brands or cursed me with this affliction where simply nothing else will do, right from the jump.The tucked belt loops, the lined back pockets, the poly-core cotton thread so my tactical folder doesn't completely break the threads on the coin pocket, anyway I've been on a mission to find my forever jeans and that's why I'm wearing the 888 SBG now (I hate black jeans) waiting on the indigo 888 to restock and wear those for next year's indigo invitational, which is to say I should mention the pair of 21oz indigo 888 are waaaay too small for me or I'd be in those at the moment. I also have the 634 in 21oz and 14oz, but a lil' too tight in the thighs. Like I said, basically looking for the one fit and silhouette for me, and just about found it thank god lol.
Glad to be here. Cheers! Oh yeah, I go by Terry.
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@twinning nicely worded. Welcome and have fun.
