User Experiences
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Hi all! I'm new to the forum. I brought my passion for the right jeans from the USSR. Time of total deficit and lack of everything. Jeans Levis and Wrangler were then for me happiness and good luck. Then in 1991 the damned USSR collapsed. And denim of dubious quality and origin went into the country like an avalanche. And only in the last 15 years, selvedge jeans began to appear in Russia. After Levis with selvedge, I accidentally stumbled upon Japanese denim. And away we go! Got hooked on Momotaro from Zefear. And there in the store I saw the Iron Heart. And here I am. The locals around me, twist their fingers to my temple and say that I'm crazy. And when they hear how much I spend on Japanese denim, they remember the fucking mother.
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I came to the forum like many of you, searching for denim that was a bit better made than the standard fare located in shopping malls and local retailers. Overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge here, I spent the good part of the first year reading and trying to understand the differences in denim, weights, sizing, and cuts. Not only that, there were flannels, chambrays, t-shirts, and more to whet the appetite for knowledge and future purchases.
I slowly began to accumulate some understanding of the offerings here and also began to develop something I didn’t expect to find. When I opened my eyes to the surroundings, I found friends who shared wins, losses, tears, and joy. Slowly they became more than just a user on the forum, but a brother or sister in this great corner of the internet. I made my first journey across the Atlantic to meet these people I have become so attached to and have made the journey a few times now…and plan to continue doing so.
When you put the time in and start making connections, you realize that this is a family. We agree, disagree, share love, and argue…but at the end of the day, we are there for each other in support and understanding.
I have said this many times before, but I came here for the clothes, but I stay for the people.
My $.02 on what this forum means to me. Stick around and hopefully you’ll find the same…
Love to you all
️"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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Lovely post, @goosehd - worth more than $0.02!
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I was a samurai denim person until I wasn't.
living in singapore back then, a fellow denim head @ronaldlsh was all iron heart and I was all samurai. each of us was "come over to the other side". Sufu seemed better and was my first forum experience as there was a wide array of different denim brands to chat about.
met Giles, Paula and Haraki a few times in Singapore, had a few iron heart tees but never denim. my first iron heart was the 21/23UHR for the denim championship 2 or 3 when @Megatron1505 was hosting it. I guess you could say the rest is history. the community got the better of me
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It all started when I I was having a hard time finding a pair of boots that fit me well. I was frustrated with sizing, quality, and unethical manufacturing practices. I searched high and low, and eventually discovered Wesco boots, and my journey down the rabbit hole began. This new discovery became an obsession with quality, and discovering Iron Heart was only a natural progression at that point. I joined the forum and began lurking and reading, and compiling a wishlist. And as we all know, it's scary spending a lot of money on something we've never seen in person, but my first purchase surprised me. I was met with detailed size charts, over-the-top customer service, and a place to pour over every little detail with a like-minded community of people, who on their own, also discovered this wonderful forum. It has always been my refuge from the harshness of the world, a corner of the internet where I can count on leaving with a lighter heart than when I came.
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Says here I joined in April of 2013. I think I was lurking for many months before that as I was doing research on IH ahead of making purchases. I joined eventually and found it to be a lovely community and have been around on and off ever since.
I will say that especially in those early days this forum really lightened my wallet a lot. Obsessively looking at pictures of and posts about products always led to the inevitable purchase of things I would otherwise probably have been able to live without, or may have discovered too late to purchase. At least from my perspective, the site has offered a positive ROI for Iron Heart
That said, from my perspective, the site has offered me friends I would not have otherwise met and made and, in the end, enriched my life in other small ways.
So, thanks for the site, @Giles @Alex @Madame-Buttonfly , all the admins of the past, present, and future, and all the forum members who haven't been on here to take advantage of other forum members. As far as I'm concerned the whole thing has been a big net win/win/win.
