Heavyweight Denim Championships 2013-2015 - Official Thread

[cander49]

Hey everyone. I came over here from sufu to see what peoples' final jeans look like - nice work, everyone - so I figured I'd post a couple shots of mine as well (Samurai 710). I beat them in pretty well, with 100+ ski days, a lot of travel, including a trip to Tanzania, where I wore my jeans to the summit of Kilimanjaro, and a lot of other mountaineering in Utah. There's not much indigo left, so I'll include some photos from earlier on, when they had more contrast. I washed somewhere around 16 or 17 times, always on delicate cycle. My wonderful fiancee did all of my repairs (I believe she made 29 different repairs between months 12 and 20), but we just gave up with around 4 months to go. Oh, and regarding my fiancee, I proposed on top of a 3000-ish meter mountain at night here in Utah back in December while wearing my tattered jeans. Somehow she said yes. Haha.

Final front / fit:

Final back:

Filthy jeans at a little shy of 19000 feet, the highest point on Kilimanjaro at which I could take off my snowpants from on top of my jeans without feeling like I was going to freeze to death. Taken on the way back down after summiting (peak behind me):

Hiking in Usa River, Tanzania:

Skiing about a month or two in:

Canyonlands, Utah:

Fit after 9 months of wear:

Front after 11 months:

Back after 11 months:

First set of repairs (sorry, only seemed to have a small version of the finished product):

Salt flats a couple months in:

Bonus pic… the best photo I ever took in them. Fiancee + sunrise from a few meters shy of the peak of the world's tallest freestanding mountain:

[swiss-jeansfreak]

Incredible updates seen here so far, making it very hard to judge them!!!
Congrats to all your hardest core raw denim love given to all those beauties!!!

[Jordan23]

Fuck these are heavy used! Love it!

Enjoy ya addiction!

[louisbosco]

just some final photos for this thread.

[madmonday]

thanks mega for putting this together. some great looking jeans are showing up.

[twin]

Great update @Cander49 Saw all of your photos also on SUFU.

[twin]

@Louisbosco Your PBJ jeans look great you may be a winner.

[louisbosco]

@twin Thanks twin. i hope so too. Keeping my fingers crossed. but in my opinion there are quite a handful of others i may consider as potential winners!

[dlaz]

and the winner of dad-jeans fade goes to @cander49 !!

[Black Orchid]

Wow… Amazing denim..What more can I say! [emoji122]

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[cander49]

@dlaz:

and the winner of dad-jeans fade goes to @cander49 !!

Lol. I don't even know what that means.

[mahlon321]

Figured I'd throw these up here as well.
It's been a fun 2 years!! Thanks @Megatron1505

and the patch

pre first wash

One (ish) years

getting close to the end

the end

[Megatron1505]

Beautiful work @mahlon321 , thank you for competing. Your jeans make me want to put mine on again 

[spitfiredealer]

Nice job @mahlon321
Are you entering them in the last man standing or you got a new pair for the DWC.?

[Megatron1505]

I think the LMS comp would be perfect for these.

[fanya]

Final pics and all the jazz are up in the submission thread, not going to xpost this one.

Thanks all, its been a great run, can't wait for next year.

Lots of amazing awesome pics and adventures, great jeans and denim.

Much

Good luck to all

[twin]

Well done @fanya . Also saw you on SUFU.Great pics.

[spitfiredealer]

Awesome @fanya yours are the winners for me.

[Finkster]

+1

Absolute stunning @fanya … good job!

[fanya]

Thanks guys!