IH-634SR - 21/23oz 5 Year Anniversary Straight Cut
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You must soak raw denim.
- to get rid of the starch
- to get the constructional stitching bedded into the denim
If you dont you will shorten the life of your jeans.
Cold or warn, does not matter, but you will get more shrinkage the hotter you soak/the faster you dry them.
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- Giles begins to think that he should hot ket this post so it is easier to repost.
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Soaked my second pair yesterday, 28W:
- Inside out, folded lengthwise, gently placed in the basin of the washing machine. Hot water. Bit of Woolite Dark. Lid closed. 7 hours.
- Drained. Soaked again in hot water to rinse out soap. Hand agitation (swirling water back and forth). 1 hour.
- Hung on a line outside, still inside-out. 5 hours. 60' F. 25% humidity.
- Put on while slightly damp, walked around, up and down stairs, squats, etc. Still wearing them…
It gets easier the more you do it apparently. I had all four buttons closed within an hour. Best jeans ever.
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Adam313 & Giles, do we really need to soak the jeans overnight to get rid all the shrinkage in it?
as far as i know,ppl usually soak their jeans about 1-2 hour(s).. so is there a significant shrinkage between soaking this SR for 2 hours and overnight? -
Well I must admit I am only following directions as jaco said. The info is on page 35 in this thread, as well as bits and pieces of info on other pages.
"Overnight" seems to be subjective even around this forum. On my first pair, I needed to shrink as much as possible, so I soaked them for 17.5 hours with three water changes (Overnight-15h, Soak-1.5h, Soak-1h) and multiple agitations. But I was considered a freak by the people who responded to my post, so 17.5 hours might be on the extreme end of the soak spectrum. But truth be told, my jeans came out like velvet, and the fades are amazing, and after only a few months. I got 1.75" shrink in the length, 1" in the waist, and ~.5" in the width, all in all just about average from what's been posted here in the past.
This time the measurements were perfect, so I soaked as long as I slept, which was 7 hours. I rinsed and dried them just as before, but this time they were not as soft as the first pair IMO, but they were just as fuzzy.
My guess is that the extended soaking time allows the water to penetrate into this supa-tight woven denim. All the threads are so thick that they might benefit from some time to relax. There were stories of this denim tearing itself to shreds because it didn't get a chance to soak before it was subjected to extended wear.
And I do not doubt the master that knows how to make things I do not know how to make. I say, "yes sir, I will soak as you say, thank you sir, domo arigato."
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good post adam. you caused me to scrap my response as u did such a fine job
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maybe i'm not feeling well
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nice explanation Adam, i might do the overnight soak too in the near future
