Best Iron Heart Models for Western Wear?
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great pics @twinning! i never tried the 888 cause i didnt think i could wear em with boots. conversely, my 1 pr of 777s which are the VS colab. only pic with boots i have.
now just call a pig or horse farm to volunteer and muck some stalls in yer boots to give em the ‘look’. lol. joking.
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@goosehd - dang, Cate really aced that hat man, is that one of her “natural dyes” she makes herself? Stunning. And those stacks are looking pretty awesome!
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@goosehd so jealous. If I wasn’t such an impatient bastard, I’d put in an order… she really is the best
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@roydub87 Hey thanks! And thanks everyone.
@mikebarhoot If you're only going to have one pic with boots, that's for sure the pic to have. Nice.
Yeah I'm not really into stacks or at least not all the way up the calf, I just want a few breaks kind of bunched up around the ankle and definitely having the hem go all the way down to sit on the ledge of the boots, which I guess you'll only really get with a straight leg or boot cut, something with at least maybe an 8.75" opening, but I'm still leaning lol.
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oh no. plenty of boot pics. just the 1 with 777s.
& thanks @twinning
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@twinning FWIW, I think the standard inseam on IH jeans is the ideal length for stacks - see @goosehd 's pick in his UHR denim. You are entirely correct, once the denim settles, the "stacks" are about a 3, maybe 4, inch section of fabric.
The history behind stacks does in-fact date back to the Cowboys, when they sat on a saddle, and their feet were in stirrups, they wanted their jeans or duck trousers to provide an extra layer of protection around brush, and having an extended inseam was the result, covering the shaft and the instep of their boots. Ironically, the same inseam requirement for riding a motocycle and not having the wind go up your trousers haha. At some point, cowboys would also order their jeans extra long to be able to cuff the bottom part, and be able to carry things like their cigarettes in the cuff, which gave them easy access to a smoke while on the trail.
Christophe from Mister Freedom took this little nugget back in 2008 or so, and added pockets to the bottom of a pair of the "rider's" jeans he created. essentially taking the folk lore of "the cuff" being used as a pocket and just added a legit pocket to the hem for the same reasons.
This look then carried along the cowboy aesthetic over time, and when the jeans were heavily starched, also a real life tool, adding a layer of "armor" against brush and tree branches to keep the fabric from catching and fraying, but it also ensured the jeans "stayed fresh" even on multi-day or multi-weeks rides, the stacks would get additionally pronounced, and the area where the starch would rub off and the denim would "fold" would fade differently than the indigo heavy layer that was flat. This created the optical "stacking" look, in the same way that honeycombs ad whiskers are the exposed "stack" of denim that protrudes away from the body, and the indigo stays deeper on the pieces of fabric closer to the body.
Wow, nerdiest thing I've ever written, but alas...
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thanks for that @Appfaff. memories of HEAVILY starched britches and long trail rides. maybe i’ll take a pr of XHS to get them starched…
