IH-666-UHR - Ultra Heavy - Devil's Fit (Slim Cut)
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what is your opinion on thigh shrinkage with IH jeans?
All horizontal measurements will shrink proportionally to waist shrinkage, all vertical measurements proportionally to inseam shrinkage.
Seeing as waist, knee and hem measurements don't involve masses of fabric, shrinkage is negligible, unless of course they were too tight to behind with.
EDIT: Of course it would be easier to follow @Giles link which explains things much more succinctly
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If they are loose you can go for a warm to hot soak because they will stretch back out.
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Per the product page:
Will shrink approximately 1" in the waist and approximately 2 inch in the inseam, and after a month or two of wear the waist will stretch back to approx pre-soak size
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Please be very careful washing these in a washing machine.
In the early days when the denim is still very stiff, there is a tendency to get unwanted fade lines. I would probably never wash UHR rightside out and I would never wash in an aggressive washing machine and I certainly would not spin or tumble dry. Do any of those things, and I guarantee that you will be pissed off with yourself….
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Yeah I'd definitely avoid a washing machine at all costs. I have a pair of Flat Heads that were stiff as a board after the initial soak, but it eventually went away and softened up, plus I'll use the starch in the fabric to my advantage to get some crisp whiskering and honeycomb foundations.
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Apologies. I was a little cavalier with my original advice, and the guys are correct, you need to be careful with UHR. The washing machine is, from my experience, totally unproblematic, as long the jeans are wet through (I use the shower head), and the spin cycle is turned off or right down.
Mine were soaked twice and machine washed twice to get Max shrinkage. The combs and whiskers set regardless and the indigo falls out if you look at it too hard. And following the above method, no marbling or crease lines.
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Most American top loaders beat the shit out of clothes washing in a front loader is gentler on UHR
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Which is why US customers on average get more shrinkage than European customers, and we all get more shrinkage than Japanese customers
What do they wash clothes with in Japan. Mountain Mist and gentle breezes?
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Wait, now I'm confused (might just be my reading comprehension being off)…
I always wash my denim at 40deg C. Only owned sanforized so far so I never pre washed/soaked.
Would it be safe to just only wash UHR denim at 60 deg in the machine the first time? Is it paramount to soak first and then machine wash? I don't have a proper tub and figured a hot wash inside out, no spin in a front load machine would be fine with the UHR, but is that correct?
