Care For Your (Denim/ Wool/ Cotton)

[Guest]

I totally get you Simon. Except that my job is incredibly intellectually and analytically challenging. It exercises my brain, though admittedly – not my body at all.

[Guest]

Perhaps I should warn you that I'm very smart. Not exactly humble either. I need a brain-torque-ing job in order to maintain my sanity. I NEED to be intellectually challenged.

[Beatle]

The care thread was on the Other brands board. Not really a good place for it.

Besides - tfar - maybe u should use more skin lotion. Washing ur jeans every 20 wears sounds like really a lot - but maybe the results will be interesting. Super light grey denim…

[Guest]

LOL on the skin lotion. I hardly ever use any. But I suspect most male jeans fanatics don't, either. In addition, we guys usually have hairy legs. So that increases the friction and thus the skin rub off.

On my "normal" blue jeans I usually wash them every 7-10 wears. Just going slower on the IH.

The thing with the Superblacks is that in principle I want them to stay nice and dark. That is not a big challenge because if ever they turn grey-ish I can simply dye them black. Not much to do wrong there. Or I could experiment a little and do a dark indigo overdye on a Superblack.

I actually really like grey denim. I just bought a pair of light grey 501s. Very cool pants. But my Superblacks should stay black.

[Seul]

I like the friction marks on my IHxSE07Bks but not on the knees… Anything I can about that?.. Perhaps a dye of some kind?.. It's mainly my right knee as I rest on it a lot during work... I wash that area from time to time with a wwet washing cloth to get the dirt off, but of course I wear out the colour even more by doing so...

[Beatle]

I would just leave it be. Part of evolution - and that makes them special

[Giles]

I have a tendency to bust through my right knee in world record time.  I have taken to wearing a knee pad when I know I'm going to be doing a lot of kneeling….Sad but true...G

[Beatle]

Dude -  knee pads ? Are u kidding me ???

[Giles]

When you do as much physical shit as me - yes.  Plus, I am often kneeling in serious dirt, so apart from stopping me busting through the knee, it helps no engrain the knees with stuff that is almost impossible to get out.  That said, I only do it in the privacy of my own home

[Beatle]

okay..so it´s not like u put them on to tie your shoe laces..relieved…

[Guest]

He wears them when on his skate board….admit it G

[Giles]

I'm actually watching and dreaming that I could do Skii Cross at the mo

[Guest]

I'm totally with you Giles. Wearing knee pads when you do a lot of physical work on your knees is just as smart as wearing a seat belt when you drive a car or a helmet when you ride a motorcycle. You can concentrate better on the task at hand because it's more comfortable. You reduce the pain and the risk of injury and lastly you prolong the life of your jeans. A man's gotta know when to be smart and when to be handsome.

Till

[Beatle]

xpost - grooming thread got carried away. For those who are interested in hand washing your jeans

Using Dr. Bronners bar soap.

Soak while wearing, apply while wearing ..rinse while wearing

take off and rinse in soapy water plus repeat cleaning dirty parts again (cuffs, pocket openings)

rinse again, thouroughly, hangdry

[Beatle]

ur want to know when you wash them , right ?

The whole process takes about 30 minutes…

[Beatle]

why would you soak with ur jeans on ? Unless they are too tight..

Normal soak - warm - hot water , 1 - 2 hours.

If really tight, u can do cold and 30 min

[deadendpro]

she meant when you clean them. lol. soak for 30 min cold if too tight, but i say soak hot->warm for the 45-1hr and then feel the pain of the stretch! it hurts SOOO GOOD!

[Guest]

Yes, use either cedar blocks (or actually use shelves made of cedar wood) or use the aleppo soap. Naphta balls are killer. My gf's closet is a gas chamber. Nothing would survive in there. I took 80% of what she put in there out and sealed it in ziploc bags and it still reeks. There are perfumed mothballs that are supposed to be not that bad but I haven't tried those yet. One of the main things is to wash your stuff regularly. When you start accumulating pullovers it is well possible that you don't wear one for more than a year. In that case you should still wash it.

[DrPat]

Moths don't eat cotton.  They prefer the protein (keratin) in animal fibers.  Silverfish like starch and will therefore eat cotton.  Also, the larvae of some beetles also like cotton.

[Guest]

Just purchased my first Dr Bronner products…..no idea if better than any other organic soap, but had to give a try as keep reading on various treads/forums.

Damn...Till, only just seen your soap recomendation....will give that a go some time in the future too.