Random Announcements
-
If you want super authentic fades you simply have to spend hours in a coal mine…on horseback
-
Sick fadez pony boy.
-
Interesting post, though I'm late to the party.
The longer I wear raw denim, the more often I wash and I feel like the Fading benefits from it - more pluckering, more defined colours, streaks and vertical falling become more visible. I really think that frequent (or regular) washing makes interesting denim even more interesting. It wasn't something I liked from the start, but the more pairs I saw, the more I prefered the washed look of Jeans. In fact, when I browse through a Lightning mag, the Jeans I like best nowadays are vintage Levi's or the ones that look like in the Warehouse blog.
Funny Thing is, I don't feel like much has changed round here - the latest Releases of IH also seem to produce way more contrasted fades than the regular 21 oz denim (maybe it's also just that pairs like fanyas, LN's or Alex' SII's stuck in my mind). So I'm pretty astonished that your perception is different than mine.
(And the guys at RAWRdenim still celebrate the non washing rule and high contrasted fades)
-
I only wash when they get dirty or stinky. Not because of fades, but out of laziness. My demanding first world, white collar lifestyle in the climates I've lived in means that I wash them very infrequently.
-
Now that laundering your denim is socially acceptable, I'm going to have to move onto stonewashing mine…
-
Wants denim to reflect life…..worries about how often to wash them to attain this "reflection"....
I could've sworn I pointed this out years ago…;)
My frequent washings are a result of being the parent of two beautiful, happy, slobbery Rottweilers.
Not sure why I'd want to pretend to be someone else
-
I've always only washed jeans when they smelled or were dirty, and if I were to guess I always will.
-
Pretty much same as always; I'd estimate I wash around 6 weeks of actual wear, but back in my earlier denimhead days, I rotated through several pairs, so some didn't get washed for 8-10 months. My pair for the HWDC I washed close to monthly, in part just because I was curious to see if it led to anything noticeably different. It didn't. Longest I've ever gone between washings with a pair that was getting worn daily was three months. They didn't really look or smell gross, (Julie agreed, so it wasn't just me getting used to my own funk) but the denim got a weird feel to it and I didn't like putting them on. Washing fixed that.
-
I've done the ocean soak, I've done the no wash, I've done the many wash. I just like the experience & enjoy doing goofy sh!t. If someone came on & said they bake their jeans in the oven cause they do blah, blah, blah I'm one of the idiots who would say wow I gotta give that a try or why didn't I think of that. All in all I just enjoy exploring different ways to great looking jeans.
-
You know, baking your jeans would probably be more effective at killing microorganisms than freezing them.
-
Sh1t u could only do it on a pizza stone with a wood burning oven, HAHAHA
-
According to physicists the end of the universe is imminent… :o
Fortunately that's imminent on a cosmological scale, which means tens of billions of years. Looks like we're safe there.
-
I've always only washed jeans when they smelled or were dirty, and if I were to guess I always will.
Q.F.Muthafeckin'.T
-
Also, I've been wearing my first pair of 634S for over three years now, and they're very nicely faded. The fades aren't forced. They really are from whatever I've doing, and however I'm living. Oh no! a cell phone fade! A wallet fade! A weird blob fade from where I keep my keys in the left pocket. A weird fade where I scratch my balls every day. I also wash them whenever they're dirty, smelly, or feel grimy. I just don't give a fuck. They're Iron Hearts, and they can withstand a fucking washing machine.
