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    henry_david
    Joined: 28 Mar 2016

    Love the stories!

    In the last semester of college in early 2011, I began dating a lovely Spanish woman who was in one of my classes. She wore a super heavy black denim vest she'd proxied from Japan that intrigued me. She told me it was Iron Heart which I might have heard of at that point but idk for sure if I had. At her urging, I went to Self Edge with some college graduation money and bought some IH-301S and those were … just epic jeans. I haven't been able to get enough since.

    Our relationship imploded (she also introduced me to cocaine & taught me how to drink professionally) but I've continued to enjoy IH and safely leave the rest behind  😃 Forever grateful.

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      jerkules
      啓蒙家
      Joined: 26 Aug 2018

      @henry_david wow cocaine, booze and IH is quite the combo… She sounds like a very interesting person, but I’m glad you were able to walk away with the positive (IH) and leave the more potentially damaging traits!

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        henry_david
        Joined: 28 Mar 2016

        Me too @jerkules  😃

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          popvulture
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          Joined: 2 Oct 2018

          Haha @henry_david this sounds like my 20s. Can't say I regret it, but can't say I miss it either…

          One thing I do rather enjoy about being a sober guy is having extra money to put down on IH 😉

          WTB
          IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
          Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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            henry_david
            Joined: 28 Mar 2016

            Other ppl: "You must save so much money now."

            Me: [scrambles to pay necessaries while wearing $500 bibs]

            cc: @popvulture

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              mclaincausey
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              Joined: 12 Apr 2013

              I started when this Mississippi boy lived in Minneapolis. I was looking for heavy stuff to keep me warm without having to do the Michelin Man thing all the time. IH happened to be dialed in to my aesthetic so it worked out great! First pair were 643S which I sold here after getting denim ADD from all the great fabrics and cuts IH has created. I will return to the flagship denim one day, but the 777N is next in my IH queue after my current 666S-18 retire.

              Kudos on not getting sucked down the black hole of addiction folks. I have seen too many lives destroyed and lost. In fact, just lost another one last week. Even if the addiction doesn't ruin your life and the lives around you, the justice system can, even if you are just dabbling, since we treat illegal mind-altering substance abuse as a criminal more than a mental health issue.

              Think it, be it.

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                popvulture
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                Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                🤗! So sorry to hear that, man — was this a Jackson person? Whatever the case, that's always such a heartbreaking thing. As someone who's beyond grateful to have come out the other side of it, I'm always gutted to hear about people who aren't so lucky.

                On the IH origins topic, good on you for being able to tolerate Minneapolis! Haha I couldn't do that shit, no way… NY cold was as much as I could take.

                WTB
                IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                  Matt
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                  Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                  2009 or 2010 I was looking for jeans in the Levi’s store at the mall.  I was totally unaware of selvedge or the workwear aesthetic. I saw this on the wall, bought a pair and then fell straight into the rabbit hole of online “research”…

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                    Matt
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                    Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                    Definitely sat in a bathtub of warm water with them on.  My wife was just as confused then as she is most days now.  I use a washing machine now though.

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                      popvulture
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                      Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                      Man, @Matt do you remember Levis Hard Jeans? I remember they did a whole ad campaign around them in the late 90s — of course I was drawn to them and picked up a few pairs over the years. I remember they were cheap because nobody wanted them, but I think they were selvedge, and they definitely faded really well. I wish I still had em! I remember a particularly destroyed pair I wore through my first couple years of art school in NY. They were all blown out and had dots of ferric acid all over them from etching.

                      I think after that, it was picking up some APCs in the mid 00s for a blip of interest, then followed by a deep dive into selvedge around 2012.

                      First pair of IH was 555-01, and they absolutely blew my mind. They were more comfortable than anything else, but also way burlier, and despite the fact that people consider the 21oz to be mellow faders, I thought (and still think) that denim is my personal fave as far as fading goes.

                      WTB
                      IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                      Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                        popvulture
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                        Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                        lmaooooo I love how this is bracketed by a Taco Bell spot and a MINIDISC ad

                        WTB
                        IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                        Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                          mclaincausey
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                          Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                          It was @popvulture and I had no idea he had those demons–probably hadn't seen him since high school, and it wasn't a problem then, so they developed afterwards. Great human being as are so many of those who succumb to this disease.

                          Think it, be it.

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                            henry_david
                            Joined: 28 Mar 2016

                            lol those look sick af @popvulture

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                              steelworker
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                              Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                              @henry_david:

                              Other ppl: "You must save so much money now."

                              Me: [scrambles to pay necessaries while wearing $500 bibs]

                              cc: @popvulture

                              hahahahaha

                              Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                              Well, I have others.

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                                Matt
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                                Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                                Dude, I did not know what you were taking about until I watched the ad.  I totally remember that dudes voice and the “flesh eating locusts.”  My early and late 90’s were spent first in high school then in college so I was way too drunk to be worried about even wearing pants much less what kind they were.

                                After lots of reading up online I jumped right in with the first non VMC round of 666XHS. I just sent them to RELOVE last week.  My 21 oz Beatle Busters are now my oldest pair and I think I’ll keep them forever.

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                                  popvulture
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                                  Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                                  Hahaha I know, the ads in the 90s were having a real Hunter S Thompson moment, weren't they?

                                  WTB
                                  IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                                  Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                                    Matt
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                                    Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                                    I think that’s the same guy from the Duluth Trading Co commercials.

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                                      Chap
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                                      Joined: 24 May 2016

                                      Great stories! Thx @goosehd for starting this thread and how cool that your first IH's where the 805's.
                                      My first pair was a pair of 634S-21 which sill is my favorite cut. This pair was bought too large, I didn't konw anything about stretch and after some wear I realized I should have sized down but I still have it. It must have been around 2014 or 2015 when by chance I stumbled into Vienna shop Lowdownondenim which doesn't excist anymore but was an IH dealer at that time. Until that moment I never heard anything about japanese denim, selvedge denim, raw denim aso. But I always had a great love and interest in fabrics. Before I started wearing (IH) denim I almost daily wore bespoke suits and dress shirts. A complete transformation started. This stuff realy infected and thrilled me. I always had an interest in well made things. When I now look at a well made and well aged pair of IH denim I do it with the same love I look at one of my old Harris Tweed Jackets, just things that age with lots of character and made to last.

                                      God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. Willie Nelson

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                                        henry_david
                                        Joined: 28 Mar 2016

                                        @Chap:

                                        Before I started wearing (IH) denim I almost daily wore bespoke suits and dress shirts.

                                        Wow!! That's quite a shift, @Chap  :o

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                                          steelworker
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                                          Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                                          @mclaincausey:

                                          I started when this Mississippi boy lived in Minneapolis. I was looking for heavy stuff to keep me warm without having to do the Michelin Man thing all the time. IH happened to be dialed in to my aesthetic so it worked out great! First pair were 643S which I sold here after getting denim ADD from all the great fabrics and cuts IH has created. I will return to the flagship denim one day, but the 777N is next in my IH queue after my current 666S-18 retire.

                                          Kudos on not getting sucked down the black hole of addiction folks. I have seen too many lives destroyed and lost. In fact, just lost another one last week. Even if the addiction doesn't ruin your life and the lives around you, the justice system can, even if you are just dabbling, since we treat illegal mind-altering substance abuse as a criminal more than a mental health issue.

                                          there's  a lot of people making a lot of money keeping drugs illegal.

                                          Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                                          Well, I have others.

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