Proper selvedge jeans

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Amazing post. Got any pics?

😂😂😂 laughed out loud

Did your angry half-brother kill the kestrel at the end?

Amazing 👍

Rainbow ED50s arrived. Definitely paid too much.

The fades are a bit worse than I expected, so going to have a go at blending them out with alcohol.

For some reason the vanilla indigo colour comes out weird on my phone, but you can see what I mean about the fades. This one on the back of the leg being one of the worst.

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Looks like that will blend in a bit with time. I'd just wear them and wash them and they'll be fine.

Yeah I know what you mean, but I was hoping to have these stay blue for a bit longer. There's quite a few of these random lines so I'd like to have it less pronounced before washing them - just in case they become more so when washed.

Vertical lines are from spin cycle and/or the drier. Wash no spin or in the bath and don’t fold until they’re dry. Those lines aren’t too bad, alcohol sounds pretty risky.

Echo what's said I'd just wear them and give them a hand wash and hang dry. I had that on some jeans my mum kindly washed and spin dried. After a a couple of hand soaks the lines were not as prominent.

Paid $250 earlier to have these restored to their former glory at Denim Doctor here in Los Angeles. No relation to DD in Manchester, might I add.

I’m actually incredibly excited. I outgrew these jeans a few years ago now thought they were a relic of my past forever. I’ve lost some weight recently and thought I’d try them on. To my genuine amazement they fit perfectly. Just as I remember. I may have shed a tear of happiness. I have tried to buy more of these several times and have never come across another pair. I can’t wait to wear them again.

Now, you might be thinking: ‘$250? JB are you insane???’

Well, yes. I love these jeans and really want them to be fixed by the best out there and he really is. I’m having all holes darned, the button hole restitched, the pocket bag sewn up and reattached, the leg hemmed and chainstitched (they were always too long after their initial hem and chainstitching but I never had them re-hemmed, just double folded which I’ve never liked) and he’s also removing an old shitty brick lane dry cleaner repair job and is darning the huge hole. The reason I’d never had them re-hemmed is because I didn’t want to lose the beautifully aged and worn in chainstitching… well, that’s no problem he said. They can artificially age all stitching and chainstitching so it matches the rest of the jean. This bumped up the cost a fair bit and I’m totally fine with it.

I am beyond excited to get these back. I quickly snapped some photos of the damage when I took them in. And am reposting a photo from the last page of what they actually look like. Ones on the left, obviously. Pretty sure they’re more faded than that now, though.

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Dedication to the cause ✊

What jeans are they?

Short answer long: they're Warehouse Montgomery Ward's. I got them in 2015 and wore them as my only jeans for a good couple of years until I got the other Warehouse's pictured above, which I ended up deciding were too narrow in the thigh and I moved those on. Subsequently have bought more Warehouse's though. I like Warehouse....

They're a reproduction of these. They were originally released in 1939 by Montgomery Ward, a mail order catalog in the U.S. to celebrate something to do with Texas, hence the star arcuate on the back pockets.

Funnily enough, the guy who is doing the repair owns a store that stocks a shit tonne of vintage Levis and Lee of all shapes and sizes - and charges a pretty penny for them too. Mushroom, the Japanese store linked above, are a client of his. He sends them all sorts of stuff and they sell it on in Japan, and he said that in 25 years of collecting vintage jeans, he's only ever seen one pair of these Montgomery Ward's, and they're the ones I linked to above. He sold them to Mushroom. Small world. He was really excited about working on them. I have very high expectations - ha.

1972.....before the hair came off...

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Very Kes.
Very niche. Very artisanal.

I'm looking for heavy denim traditional dungarees?

Tanuki makes something pretty heavy though the taper is extreme.
Grease Point may have something for you.

I took it to uni with me!

21oz?

Too heavy duty I suspect

TCB have a couple of options. Only 11.3oz though.

https://tcbjeans.myshopify.com/collections/overalls

Isn't this classic carhartt and dickies territory?

Yanks fuckin love dungarees.

Random, but the rivets on both sets of Edwin jeans I recently picked up seem quite a lot sharper than any other jeans I've ever had.

Is this a thing?

I have got a pair of these fullcount jeans in indigo x black in size 33 that are a bit big for me for sale if anyone is interested. Hemmed to 30 inch inseam waist measures 17 inches measured across flat.

https://www.stuf-f.com/en/clothing/denim/1483/fullcount-1109srb-slim-indigo-x-black-jeans

Yeah that’s a thing. File em.

Yes, classic dickies and Carhartt but this is the PROPER SELVEDGE thread.