Proper selvedge jeans

I'll be amazed if a single pair ever gets worn... Lovely thing...

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looking for a light pair of slim jeans, for summer usage with a bit of stretch in them.
have a pair of huit tech jeans which I love for summer use, but the crotch has exploded twice, so looking to replace them.

Any thoughts let me know

Ironheart have some lighter weight jeans in their clearance section right now.

I ordered a couple of different cuts but then thought wtf, if I am buying jeans from them may as well go for stupid weight jeans so returned them and got a pair of 888 25oz indigo blacks instead.

I'm a fan of the Naked & Famous ones with stretch

https://www.nakedandfamousdenim.com/en/deep-indigo-stretch-selvedge

They do an 11oz, but not in skinny

https://www.nakedandfamousdenim.com/en/11oz-stretch-selvedge

not sure what the pricing would be like in the uk though

25oz denim :-|

I wish you good luck. I've stepped away from denim a little bit in the last year and have been wearing a lot of lighter cottons and cotton/linen blends. Going back to 14oz denim scares me, let alone 25!

I know GBP is shit but wtf?!

Took ten minutes to button them up first time! And was like being dressed in cardboard.

Been soaked and washed and currently back at iron heart being hemmed.

They are ludicrous but great.

They take a good few months before the cardboard feeling goes.

They also take forever to dry.

I have been wearing Filson 15oz waxed garments and also iron heart 22 oz jeans so moving to 25oz trousers hasn’t been such a shock to the system.

Srs question, where is the pleasure in wearing 25oz? Sick fades? Incredibly hard wearing?

Sweaty balls

My Buzz Rickson's are very heavy, don't know the exact weight but you can stand them up on their own in the corner of a room...

There was a time when I think people were chasing that heavy denim, miner/ranch hand aesthetic... I would always buy the heaviest denim I could find and was always disappointed with how flimsy LVC stuff was, but it's very difficult to wear... I got married in a pair of Studio D'Artisan pants and a Denime type 1 blanket lined jacket... In Memphis, in spring... I sweated like a fucking P.I.G.

Not practical at all... Form over function...

Stupid sense of machismo, suffering for fashion, one upmanship etc etc. There is something reassuringly comforting being encased in a garment. I think that a lot of the appeal is the fades, because they are so rigid the creases are more pronounced than softer denim so are more exposed. Looking at some of the pictures of fades on the ironheart forum I would actually suggest that this paradoxically decreases life span. I have had similar effect on the cuffs of my filson wax tin cloth jacket on the cuffs, because it is so stiff there are tiny frays on sharpest creases.

Iron Heart also offer a free repairs service, darning holes etc.

And of course the sweaty ballz

I think about favourite pairs of jeans and they're usually the ones that took a kicking and were soft.

I can't get my 21 oz Ironhearts from the mid-00s to fade in any way shape or form. Denim is thick but also very soft so it doesn't even crease really = no whiskers. I only wear them in winter.

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I would actually suggest that this paradoxically decreases life span.

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I think about favourite pairs of jeans and they're usually the ones that took a kicking and were soft.

Both, coincidentally, were standard regular fit Levis that I bought in Latin America (so Mexican made I assume) that were worn almost non-stop and washed semi-regularly.

Also does anyone else worry that their sick fades actually end up looking like something an early '00 Big Brother contestant bought from TopMan? Think there was a pair that Pistinator posted a while back that looked exactly like that.

Easy to spot fake fades, bruv... If it's faded where there ain't no crease, etc...

True.

But the overall aesthetic is the same.

No, it isn't...

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Heaviest I've worn are 17oz Rogue Territory Stealth Stantons... they're great but have blown twice in the crotch and I'm gagging to buy something new... was thinking on the 21oz Unbranded as they're cheap as chips... I can't afford to spend over £200 on a pair of jeans these days

Also does anyone else worry that their sick fades actually end up looking like something an early '00 Big Brother contestant bought from TopMan?

Nope. Old Warehouse's next to new(er) Warehouse's on their day of purchase. Same denim, different jean. This is why 14oz is the best all around denim weight IMO. Fades beautifully and incredibly comfortable after only a few weeks.

@hugo7 the overall aesthetic is not the same. Cannot believe you'd say that in this thread :-O

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Fair enough. I don't think denim weight necessarily means better fades, it's the denim itself.