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    T4920
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    @Giles
    Joined: 27 Apr 2022

    and what would've it been titled if you did @Giles 😆

    “𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”

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      Giles
      IHUK Crew
      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

      I daren't reply......

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        AdamJ
        IHUK Crew
        Joined: 29 Jun 2017

        @T4920 He doesn't want to get himself banned 😂

        The devil is in the detail..

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          Sir_Cuffs-a-Lot
          The Unwoven
          Joined: 11 Feb 2023

          nudie jeans

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            Kasi
            見習いボス
            @RobeOfTheMagi
            Joined: 9 Oct 2014

            @RobeOfTheMagi said in I messed up (A place for Denim Mistakes and Failures):

            @Kasi Did it do anything to the jeans or did just leave an itchy bottom?

            didn’t do shit.

            Wash them afterwards

            Waste of time.

            The world's insane
            While you drink champagne
            And I'm livin' in black rain 4Q 🖕

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              Kasi
              見習いボス
              @AdamJ
              Joined: 9 Oct 2014

              @AdamJ said in I messed up (A place for Denim Mistakes and Failures):

              Probably got away with it because it's SBG but I totally bollocksed up my IH-526J-SBG sample by not soaking it before washing.

              Practice what you preach and all that 👀

              And your 555 sbg you hem wrong.

              The world's insane
              While you drink champagne
              And I'm livin' in black rain 4Q 🖕

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                AdamJ
                IHUK Crew
                @T4920
                Joined: 29 Jun 2017

                @T4920

                ....I know for one I've been upset and disheartened by these things in the past

                Yeah, something not to admit in the pub. Someone spilled a pint on my new-ish IH-555N during the World Cup, I had a sense of humour failure and complained "these natural indigo". What originally was sympathy from my mates quickly turned in to piss taking

                The devil is in the detail..

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                  T4920
                  見習いボス
                  @Kasi
                  Joined: 27 Apr 2022

                  @Kasi I did all that rubbish around 2010 ahaha...
                  Freeze my jeans, sand bath my jeans, take them in the sea... don't think it did anything but I enjoyed the whole process 😆

                  “𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”

                  last edited by 25 Apr 2024, 15:25 K 1 Reply Last reply 25 Apr 2024, 15:28 Reply Quote 1
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                    RobeOfTheMagi
                    Haraki san Expert
                    Joined: 15 Apr 2024

                    @AdamJ Couldn't you explain that the next wash was only due in six months time?

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                      Giles
                      IHUK Crew
                      @AdamJ
                      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                      @AdamJ said in I messed up (A place for Denim Mistakes and Failures):

                      What originally was sympathy from my mates quickly turned in to piss taking

                      Oh really........😂😂😂😂😂

                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                      last edited by Giles 25 Apr 2024, 15:26 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
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                        Kasi
                        見習いボス
                        @T4920
                        Joined: 9 Oct 2014

                        @T4920 said in I messed up (A place for Denim Mistakes and Failures):

                        @Kasi I did all that rubbish around 2010 ahaha...
                        Freeze my jeans, sand bath my jeans, take them in the sea... don't think it did anything but I enjoyed the whole process 😆

                        Me 2.. just bullshit on the internet’s

                        My experience wear fuck of it and earn the fades

                        The world's insane
                        While you drink champagne
                        And I'm livin' in black rain 4Q 🖕

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                          Oaktavia
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                          Joined: 12 Jun 2019

                          I have a pair of 888XHSib that I have thrown in the washer and dryer 7-8 (maybe more? I lost count) times. Anytime I had a load to wash, I just thew them in with what was dirty. These are my pair with paint on them from last summer. As an experiment, I wanted to see how what XHSib looked like washed the fuck out with vintagey style fades. I can post photos later when I get home if anyone is interested.

                          IG: electricindigowizard

                          "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                          WTB: IHJ-72- XL/XXL

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                            goosehd
                            Mod Squad
                            Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                            Mistakes are made by all of us, we learn, and move on...it's not a bad thing.

                            I once drilled into the bottom of an air conditioner's bottom pan because the unit was incorrectly mounted, kept collecting water, and would freeze up because of it. I thought that if I just made an extra hole in the pan then the water could drain out and fix the freezing issue...what happened was that I drilled through the pan and directly into the condenser coils freeing all of the coolant. It was a $700 dollar mistake in the middle of the hottest part of the year 🙂

                            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                              Giles
                              IHUK Crew
                              Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                              I could have a whole thread to myself. “Giles’s unbelievably stupid fuck-ups - sectioning him is one solution”

                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                goosehd
                                Mod Squad
                                Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                                Another one that I’ll share that should have killed me…

                                I was 20 at the time and my buddy convinced me to go skydiving. We opted to do a solo jump from 4000 feet where we had spent the entire morning in class learning what to do and what not to do. After lunch we put on our parachutes and boarded the plane for our slow ascent to 4000 feet to make our jump. As soon as I got on the plane, my nerves started to get to me and I was having second thoughts.

                                We reached altitude and the first jumper made their exit with me being in second position and my buddy being in third. Not wanting to look the coward that I was, I entered the door way and stood on the tiny ledge ready to make my jump…this is where everything starts to go sideways.

                                As soon as I looked down,I realized what the fuck was about to happen and my brain started screaming to get back in the plane. The problem was that I had already stepped off the ledge and was in free fall. Imagine the looney toons cartoon where Wile E Coyote realizes and tries to run to get back on the cliff…that was me.

                                The issue is that I was out of position, slightly spinning, and when my parachute opened twisting my lines up causing a partial opening of the parachute. This is bad, really bad, and we’re taught to kick and twist in the opposite direction to try and get the lines untangled. If that doesn’t work, then release the primary parachute and try and open the auxiliary chute.

                                I’m scared shitless at this point and doing my best from not dying. I manage to kick, twist, and squirm and get my lines untangled what allowed my primary chute to open fully. By this time, all I want to do is get down on the ground but still have about 2500 feet to go.

                                We were wearing a communication system where we could hear our teachers giving us commands to turn left, right, etc., but after my experience I wasn’t paying that close of attention.

                                Now as you approach the ground, the training and logic is that you turn into the wind so that it slows your ascent and gives you a gentle landing…not me, I approach with the wind which means that I hit the ground hard and get drug by my parachute until I can get the thing to collapse.

                                I stand up dazed, confused, covered in dirt to the shock of everyone who thought that I should have broken a few of everything or be dead…

                                Everyone comes over to see if I’m alright which my stupid young brain says that I’m fine. My buddy asks if I want to do it again and what do I do…jump again on the same day with everything going the way it should have the first time.

                                As I said, everyone makes mistakes, learns, and moves on.

                                "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                  Giles
                                  IHUK Crew
                                  Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                  A friend of mine was in hospital, in the bed next to him was a guy with 2 broken legs. They got talking and he said he had bust them parachuting.

                                  Friend - So what happened, parachute not open?
                                  Victim - No I was the instructor and I jumped first, then my pupil jumped after me. He got into problems with his chute, so I was watching him and giving him instructions over the walk-in talkie. He got it sorted. I breathed a sigh of relief looked down and I was 500 feet from the ground and had forgotten to open my own chute….

                                  (I made the 500 feet bit up because I can’t remember how high he was - suffice to say, his chute did not slow him down enough)

                                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    WhiskeySandwich
                                    啓蒙家
                                    @Oaktavia
                                    Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                    @Oaktavia i'm interested, lets see em!

                                    "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                    -Seneca

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                                      WhiskeySandwich
                                      啓蒙家
                                      Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                      I gave a nearly new pair of Unbranded jeans to my son as an experiment. Not sure if he caught the bug, but he likes them and wears them almost daily, without convincing. Fades coming along nicely. He got mud on them fishing with his uncle, who tried to 'help' by throwing them directly in the laundry right-side out, followed by the dryer. They shrunk and got some of the strongest vertical fade lines I've ever seen. So my dumb ass gave him a pair of 888-142s that were a bit too slim on me....lets see what happens this time.

                                      "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                      -Seneca

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                                        neph93
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                                        Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                                        Love it @WhiskeySandwich Now make sure you hide the credit card…

                                        “Some of those that work forces
                                        Are the same that burn crosses”

                                        • Virginia Woolf
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                                          neph93
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                                          Alternative thread name: “Learning moments in my denim journey”

                                          “Some of those that work forces
                                          Are the same that burn crosses”

                                          • Virginia Woolf
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