IH-634-XHSib - 25oz Selvedge Denim Straight Cut Jeans - Indigo/Black
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Awesome, man — much appreciated!
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@SEAK Kid - great shots & wabi shirt. the 68 might be my favorite
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I got my new pants today and I am so geeked to have them. I feel like I made the right choice because these might be my last jeans I get to wear for a long time or ever. Thanks a lot to @Ross for gettingy my order together and to everyone who chipped in buying me that stuff a couple months ago. I returned the Good Art silver and olive shirt so I was able to get these for almost free. I can't tell you how grateful I am to have a new pair of XHS. This is my umpteenth pair of XHS but I am still blow away by how shiny, soft, stiff, and thick they are.
To the uninitiated, you can see how smooth and shiny the denim is compared to the rough and hairy 19 oz Left Hand Twill
I wanted to do something different for this pair and be able to visually represent how much they shrink from their raw state to the finished (shrunken) product. So I got an old piece of Christmas wrapping paper that was wide enough and traced the silhouette of the raw jeans on the paper. This way I will be able to see how much they shrink with each soak.
I'm soaking them in my new soaking tub with the piece of wood to keep the patch above water.
I was careful to leave about a three inch buffer so the capillary action won't reach the patch over about an hour soak. I will probably dry them on the box fans like I usually do.
The water temperature is about 140°F as hot as tap water can get plus a kettle full of boiling water.
I will update the forum when I am done with the soaking and drying in about two days.
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@Oaktavia thanks so much man.
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Nice! I just picked up a pair of these recently, too. Got a 33 first thinking they'd be perfect, but they ended up fitting a lot tighter than expected, so I upped to a 34. They're a little big but very comfortable, and the extra room seems to just translate to more crease / fade potential, especially in the upper thighs and top block.
I think I'm gonna punish the hell out of my UHRs for a while, then will dig into the XHSib. It's crazy fabric, so so nice.
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Sweet @popvulture this was my first pair of XHSib
They now belong to @yannis
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Those are the famous Fade Friday ones, yeah? Beauts!
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Yes
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They are beautiful indeed.
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The two day soak-a-thon is in the final stretch. They got the intial soak to soak all over, a boiling hot water soak (to address the inseam shrinkage), dryed overnight, then another 4 hour boiling soak today.
This is them drying on my box fans right now.
I checked last night and they shrunk almost two inches from the top of the waist to the bottom of the hem, in total overall length. And the inseam shrank just over an inch, from a 37.2 to about a 36 length.
They're too wet to get a final visual. But I will post that and some fit pics tomorrow when they are bone dry.
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The jeans aren't completely dry but dry enough I can measure them.
I'm pleased with the soaking results.
Pre
️ Post soaks- tagged 35
Waist 36.3….Post 36
Rear rise...post 15.5
Thighs......Post 13
Inseam 37.2 post 36Lost 2.5 inches from top to bottom
And just over an inch in the inseam
About 1/4 to 1/2" in overall width
The waist didn't really shrink at all because the majority of it didn't get wet.
And the patch is completely pristine which was my goal, and the waist is just right. I'll have a struggle at first but after a few days it'll be perfect.
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Here's a couple fit pics
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Looking good Mike, now go wreck em! [emoji3][emoji3][emoji3]
Off topic but that IH tee is so cool, I am sorry I passed on it when it was released…
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I did a 48 hour stint in my XHS enough to get them somewhat comfy. It's interesting to me how the crease patterns are almost identical to my lefties. Now that I got the XHS broken in I've reverted to wearing them by day and the 19L as my PJs.
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I wanted to post even an unremarkable pic here so I can see how long I've been wearing these like a year from now. I put about 5 miles walking on them today. I have under 10 wears on them so far.
