IH-1955S-142 - 14oz Selvedge Denim "1955" Vintage Tapered Cut Jeans - Indigo
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Well I bit the bullet on a size 30 from Guilty Party, here in the US. Mainly because the size 30 in the 14oz measures a little smaller than the 21oz 1955, which I originally bought but were too big.
And I’m sure that I’m imagining things, but when comparing this to an existing pair of the 888 142s which has been barely worn, this feels thicker. I can tell when I cuff it, etc. I triple checked and it’s slightly heftier. The weight almost feels in between the 14oz and flagship 21oz. Either way, perfect.
Just a great cut. I appreciate the extra inch of front rise, the ever so slightly narrower hips, etc. They fit me better than the 888, I think.
And the leg opening is still somewhat tapered, but not oddly so. I really hope we see this model across more fabrics in the next few years, sounds like we might. Terrific.
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@dechant They look like they've earned it!
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@Michael_W IH-1955S-142 is the next one, hopefully soon July/August time and then IH-1955S-SB around October/November time.
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@JoshC said in IH-1955S-142 - 14oz Selvedge Denim "1955" Vintage Tapered Cut Jeans - Indigo:
@Michael_W IH-1955S-142 is the next one, hopefully soon July/August time and then IH-1955S-SB around October/November time.
That’s a pretty quick restock turn around on these 142’s!
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These are my first Iron Heart jeans! Looking forward to a great fit.
Is anyone a bit surprised at the "unevenness" of the 14oz fabric? My impression has been that (with the exception of the explicit slub denims) IH makes cleaner, "modern production" weaves. I'm seeing bits of thick yarn pop out every few inches
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@SuitOfUHF post some pics
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@sabergirl said in IH-1955S-142 - 14oz Selvedge Denim "1955" Vintage Tapered Cut Jeans - Indigo:
Sounds to me like you might’ve gotten The Shop’s slubby 1955 collab
Don’t think so. (BTW is the Japanese founder writing the English here lol)
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Looks like a smooth hand denim to me. Definitely not the 16oz slubby..
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Yep that’s the regular 14 oz. Just thought from the verbal description he gave, maybe?
Anyway, im not seeing what you’re seeing, @SuitOfUHF . The 14 oz denim is pretty smooth stuff, though it does have the double twisted weft.
Are you referring to the blue nubbins in your pics?
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@sabergirl said in IH-1955S-142 - 14oz Selvedge Denim "1955" Vintage Tapered Cut Jeans - Indigo:
Yep that’s the regular 14 oz. Just thought from the verbal description he gave, maybe?
Anyway, im not seeing what you’re seeing, @SuitOfUHF . The 14 oz denim is pretty smooth stuff, though it does have the double twisted weft.
Are you referring to the blue nubbins in your pics?
Yes exactly, the nubbins. I'm not super bothered if they are not structural (which they don't appear to be)
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As for the slightly odd English on the tag, it’s a quirk of many Japanese brands, and a lot of westerners enjoy it. Sure, they could ‘fix’ it if they wanted, but then it would be less memorable.
Embrace the “true goodness”
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We could fix it, but I love it, and converting the Jinglish to English would be so much less fun. I used to have a policy of never wearing a Japanese T-Shirt unless it had some Jinglish on it.
And BTW, Haraki's English is nowhere as good as that, so it would not be him
Funnily enough, our Left Hand Twill (LHT) denim is called Lefty by the Japanese. In a meeting when the LHT was first shown to me, I jokingly referred to it as Lefty (a poor political allusion), there was no way the Japanese would have got the joke. But they did think that Lefty was the correction western term for a LHT, so that is what it is now......
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True goodness is understood
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