I wear these pants everywhere, every day. The fit is so flattering, and I get many asks about where theyre from. Maybe someday I will make a post here showing off my 'sick fades', just like all the boys are doing. But for now, since there's not so much info on these around, I will post the measurements I found on a Japanese site about the sizes of these pants. My 28s fit like a dream, but based on this info, I think I may go for a well priced pair of the 27s I found last week. Wish me luck, ladies.

@don_pipone Thanks for your quick response. Lets go Deutschland : )
Its a pretty sweeping question, but have you worn lots of IH and found that the difference in neighboring sizes is more about 'fit' as in style than a determining factor? Obviously, it would be both, but I wonder if there's more room to 'sizing down' than in other kinds of clothes... I hope you can understand what I mean, though it's a bit silly. Cheers

@yannis Oh wow, very interesting. Yeah, they are deffo 21oz, but I've never known about the fading properties of the material. Cool to confirm! The cut is amazing, so the lack of contrast is ok by me at the end of the day. In a perfect world, though........

I wear these pants everywhere, every day. The fit is so flattering, and I get many asks about where theyre from. Maybe someday I will make a post here showing off my 'sick fades', just like all the boys are doing. But for now, since there's not so much info on these around, I will post the measurements I found on a Japanese site about the sizes of these pants. My 28s fit like a dream, but based on this info, I think I may go for a well priced pair of the 27s I found last week. Wish me luck, ladies.

@don_pipone said in Random questions to which you seek an answer:

I have had many different IH pairs and cuts over the years but all of them more on the slimish side. Every time I tried sizing down it didn‘t work. Even if the waist still worked, other areas were just too tight and uncomfortable. Those areas such as thighs and knees just won‘t stretch as much with wear to make it wearable in the long run. IH is so different from „regular“ jeans. Even the lighter fabrics (14oz) are very rigid and less forgiving to make a too tight fit work.

Achso, good to know. I thought I could get away with something because I could definitely go with losing an inch in the waist, but it's true that I can't afford for my knees to get so much tighter. I was hoping it wouldn't be the case, because I feel like the sizes available are so much more specific and incremental than other brands, for example there are plenty of brands which only carry every other size, which makes things more drastic. Guess I will just have to wait for something else to come up on the market.

@don_pipone Thanks for your quick response. Lets go Deutschland : )
Its a pretty sweeping question, but have you worn lots of IH and found that the difference in neighboring sizes is more about 'fit' as in style than a determining factor? Obviously, it would be both, but I wonder if there's more room to 'sizing down' than in other kinds of clothes... I hope you can understand what I mean, though it's a bit silly. Cheers

I am back again, for my yearly check-in on this thread

I have been wearing a pair of lady 106's from ebay 5/7 days of the week. I have never enjoyed a pair of pants this much! I think it's time to double up.

I'm wondering why my pants seem to have skipped the high contrast cobalt phase between washes. I've washed them by machine x4 now, but its seemed really really really warranted, living in a city and getting the public grime on me all the time. It seems like my pants are headed towards lightwash, fast. What gives? I wonder if it's got anything to do with living in Germany, the calcium in the water... but what would be the way to get those electric blues?

I am really tempted to double up on these jeans, since they work so well for me. It seems like the only ones sub $100 I can find are one size down (28-->27) How drastic is this step? If the jeans were only a bit more snug, I think it could work out. So, testimonies appreciated.

One last thing.... With black jeans... I'm worried about the fading getting crazy in the crotch... Any solutions here?

I got my first pair of Iron Heart jeans recently, an old womens discontinued tomboy pair I was happy to snag off ebay for the cheap-ish! I really love these jeans and wish they were still in production- but now, for my question. My pants are a very close fit for me, and are very snug around the waist. The denim is obviously very stiff, the 21 oz, and sometimes i feel like the waistband is cutting into my sides. I have had them for four months now, and havent washed them yet, i think for now i would prefer not to, but i wonder if anyone has any advice on how to soften the waistband up a bit?