IH-634SII - 18oz Indigo/Indigo Straight Cut Jean
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Nice @Giles , I think this is a super customer-friendly service option to offer.
I know many people enjoy the whole soaking of raw denim process but frankly for me the novelty wore off the first time and I just want to get a pair of jeans in the mail and start wearing them! Very cool thing for IH to offer the option.
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Ye, it's a nice Service. But I never understood the need for that to be honest.
If you can read the size Charts and trust the given indication regarding shrinkage, you should be fine. If somebody else washes your Jeans, you can't control or know what he's doing to them (i.e. did they wash hot or lukewarm - how much shrinkage might still be in there? Did they treat them gentle? …)
Plus, the raw fit indicates what they might stretch back to. At least you need to know you have to account for a good amount of stretch in a one wash pair to judge wether they fit or not.
I worte it a few years ago - raw everytime for me.
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@Max:
If somebody else washes your Jeans, you can't control or know what he's doing to them (i.e. did they wash hot or lukewarm - how much shrinkage might still be in there? Did they treat them gentle? …)
The person doing the service is Iron Heart, so presumably one does know what they are doing to them and trust them to "treat them gentle."
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I trust the IHUK crew completely, but I still run every pair of jeans through the washer when I get them. I've had once washed jeans from Sugar Cane and Momotaro that still shrank after a second wash. I like to manage the process myself.
Still a great service for customers who have better things to do with their lives than obsessively run loads of laundry. Of course, I have two very dirty young children, so I do laundry almost daily anyway.
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@Max:
You can also put the in the tub with the hot water, agitate them and do that twice for 20 minutes.
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I trust the IHUK crew completely, but I still run every pair of jeans through the washer when I get them. I've had once washed jeans from Sugar Cane and Momotaro that still shrank after a second wash. I like to manage the process myself.
Still a great service for customers who have better things to do with their lives than obsessively run loads of laundry. Of course, I have two very dirty young children, so I do laundry almost daily anyway.
So, Giles and co. washed my Vulcans and hemmed them after. I assume they did a pretty hardcore (hot) wash. Obviously G knows the details because I wasn't there.
I soaked them again recently, a pretty short one with lukewarm water, very mild and a bit of soap. They felt a tiny bit snug after, which I thought was completely attributed to the cotton fibers shrinking in the water (the natural molecular reaction upon exposure to water for a bit of time).
There was no shrinkage in the inseam whatsoever, only the thigh and waist felt more "snug." After I wore it a few times, it feels 98% (I don't say 100% because I do not know if there is an actual, physical difference, or even a perceptual one) the same.
So I think the wash from IHUK takes out ALL of the shrinkage you will practically encounter. You may get a 1 to 2mm shrinkage thereafter (is it to due the lack of reaching the absolute limits of shrinking unsanforized denim in the first wash, or attributed to general molecular reactions of cotton and water? you be the judge, but I think it makes zero difference whatsoever).
I'm just saying I wouldn't be worried at all…
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I received these yesterday and put them through their first soak. Here are some numbers, should this help anyone. Huge thanks to Matt, Giles and Paula for helping select the right pair to order.
These are tagged 33 (I am normally 34 TTS):
Pre-soak:
Waist: 17.2
Thigh: 13.25
Inseam: 35.5
Hem: 9Post-soak:
Waist: 16.75
Thigh: 13
Inseam: 34.5
Hem: 8.9I soaked them for one-hour with no agitation using what I'd characterize as slightly warm water, then let them drip dry overnight. But they fit perfectly.
Pretty damn stiff out of the bag and post-soak, but they are beautiful and dark. I highly recommend them to those on the fence.
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I didn't really follow sizing conversations on here for some reason before purchase and so I'm happy to report that soaking in scalding tap water in my tub for an hour brought these into a perfect 634 fit, including the hemmed inseam length (thanks G et al).
These are gorgeous. The stitching is so striking against the denim.
Love the thick bobbin thread. Considering this is poly cotton, these are tanks.
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Look great old chap
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@Max:
Ye, it's a nice Service. But I never understood the need for that to be honest.
If you can read the size Charts and trust the given indication regarding shrinkage, you should be fine. If somebody else washes your Jeans, you can't control or know what he's doing to them (i.e. did they wash hot or lukewarm - how much shrinkage might still be in there? Did they treat them gentle? …)
Plus, the raw fit indicates what they might stretch back to. At least you need to know you have to account for a good amount of stretch in a one wash pair to judge wether they fit or not.
I worte it a few years ago - raw everytime for me.
I agree with @Max Power I prefer the raw jeans & I'll handle the soak
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They are very nice!
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These jeans are the cat's ass!
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Finally soaked these & I'm so impressed. I'm going to beat the shit out of them. You should make a t shirt - "IH. Built Like A Brick Shithouse."
