IH-634S-UHR - 21/23oz Raw Selvedge Denim Straight Cut Jeans - Indigo
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Hey [mention]popvulture [/mention] - I do the same method you do for washing jeans. I’ve found that doing it myself in my tub gives me the results I’m looking for. What I believe the reason to be for soak them wash is that - the soak will saturate the cotton and then upon drying allow them to tighten up together for most of the constructional sewing. The wash afterwards is to get the machine to agitate the denim sufficiently to get all the shrink out.
What I think would be best for us, is two super hot tub soaks (use a thick plastic hanger / spatula / stiff non porous instrument to agitate in tub) and no need to add any detergent. The hot water, drying, and tub agitation should accomplish what a machine does with a little more elbow grease involved. I don’t think you’ve got anything to worry about using your method.
If anyone else has any other info, happy to be updated with better info. My tub journey starts tomorrow! [emoji369][emoji158]
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Makes sense! The reason I got to wondering about it is that I saw Neph's comment, then I happened to pick up the IH care pamphlet that came with my jeans (oddly I never read them, numbskull that I am). It said soak, followed my machine or hand wash… to which I was like "what's the difference between a soak and a wash?"
Could it be detergent? Or just same thing, different word? All I know is that I find it beyond comical that we geek out this much about this shit, but I do enjoy the hell out of it
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Do I need to get this translated intro some sort of other language? I can't believe it's not clear enough….
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Hi guys. Received mine and is ready to soak and wash. I’m gonna follow the attached IH instructions thoroughly with one hot soak, hang dry and then a gentle wash. But could anyone help me define Hot! What temperature in Celsius are we talking about approximately?
Thx in advance
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Hot so it just about hurts when you put your hand into the water.
Perfect. Thx Giles [emoji1690]
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Thanks @neph93 will do
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Work in progress.
Borrowed from my fish tank. This feels to me like Giles described it.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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What is considered a gentle spin cycle? My machines lowest rpm is 600, is this too much?
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Post soak.
Now drying before a maschine wash in the weekend [emoji1690]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Well I mean, people spend almost 400 bucks on a pair of jeans — the directions make sense but it’s understandable there’s a worry about fucking them up. Especially when every other sentence in the thread is MAKE SURE YOU GET THE SHRINK OUTTTTT. Like I said, comical.
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I think we will rewrite the last sentence in the washing instructions, it's a tad misleading for RAW especially.
From: Do not tumble dry (this is likely to cause shrinkage and white marks).
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Do not tumble dry, this is likely to cause marbling (white marks/lines where the fabric rubs the drum of the tumble dryer) -
Jeans arrived and I love them :-).
Struggling to button them up before a soak and been trying for 45 mins now hahaha. I will leave it for now and try again tomo.
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Jeans arrived and I love them :-).
Struggling to button them up before a soak and been trying for 45 mins now hahaha. I will leave it for now and try again tomo.
Wouldn’t worry too much…. Buttoning denim that gnarly is always hard. Use a pair of long nose pliers to stretch the buttonhole.
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Thanks @neph93, good shout I will go and find some. Using a teaspoon at the moment.
It’s all good, all part of raw thick denim!
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Wore mine today for an hour, it’s simply too hot for them in Austria atm. Buttoning up needs some efforts but was ok. They are soaking right now. Will wear them then for a while before their first wash. It’s the most gnarly denim I have seen so far. I didn’t get them hemmed yet, decided to wear them for a while, give them a view washes and then probably get them hemmed when in Gosport next time.
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While you have soak them, are you gonna wait to dry them,
wash later or wash straight away.Wash later. My approach is wear them a bit and see how they fit and stretch, then soak and drip dry. Will wear them then for a certain time to see how much they stretch. Then give them a carful cold wash, no spin. Wear again, if I need more shrinkage the next wash will be warm. I bought them them almost true to size. My target waist is 34 inch the tag size 33 I have are 33.8 inch. I therefore will be very carefully in the beginning to not get to much shrinking of the waist. Didn’t wet the waist with the first soak for example.
