Learning moments in my denim journey
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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.
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Love it @WhiskeySandwich Now make sure you hide the credit card…
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@neph93 LOL ...i used it as an excuse to get myself another pair
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That’s a pro move @WhiskeySandwich 🫡
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@neph93 said in I messed up (A place for Denim Mistakes and Failures):
Alternative thread name: “Learning moments in my denim journey”
The educator in you has spoken. Turning a negative statement into a positive one.
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One big learning of mine: with denim lore, if it sounds stupid, it’s probably bullshit. Soak em when you get em, wash em when they stink, no need to writhe around in the surf at the beach or wear them in the tub to break them in.
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Bought a XHS last year that did not fit me and thought I'll lose some weight and wear them this year... Now I'm 8 kg up since last year
(But already lost a little and keep working on that)
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@WhiskeySandwich like one of your little fade minions. Or Sim City fades edition. Dress your characters and watch them go about creating their fades. Good family fun!!
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Echoing @T4920, my biggest learning moment involved a brand new pair of XHS and a small child showing first symptoms of the Rota virus. That is to say violent projectile vomitting.
Having been drenched in puke I paniced and washed them without flipping, soaking or checking spin. The result was marbling and abrasion lines galore. I was distraught.
I put the jeans to work re-landscaping the garden (documented somewhere on here, I think at the start of the «Working in your workwear thread).
As a testament to their current glory about seven years later, that very pair were recently used on the IH Instagram as to promote the XHS restock.
@AdamJ maybe you have photo’s you could post? I’m off IG at the moment, otherwise I’d link.
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Looks cool to me. I think it’s really hard for heads to break away from achieving the balanced, symmetrical fades that come with consistent, but reserved wear. But to truly just treat em like a low budget pair of mall jeans…then you’re really stamping them with your individual personality. Dig it, Stevie.
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@Mizmazzle right on man thanks for that response, I'm diggin it too. I will also say what helps support this experiment is the brand new pair I have on ice till this fall.
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@Oaktavia can’t believe that’s only 50 wears. My pair must have 200 and is way less faded. The paint color splotches are great and since there is so much marbling, it barely even reads as marbling. I like them.
