Some iPhone pics of the Enishi Yoshi denim. At this light angle you can see the horizontal texture in the weft. These are on high rotation.
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Enishi Progress
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Evisu Heritage Bluff Seam
Sunday, September 20th, 2009The Drinkin’ and Dronin’ blog has a feature on the Evisu Deluxe Heritage line
http://drinkinanddronin.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/factory-feature-for-the-evisu-heritage-collection/
These jeans have more detailing than I was aware of.
I didn’t understand the “bluff pocket seam” description, but a bit more googleing got me there.
http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/bluff_pockets/
The pocket is sewn on from the inside, as I believe you can see in the photograph above.
Here are some detailed descriptions and shots of the Evisu Deluxe denim jacket on five-secondskin.
http://five-secondskin.blogspot.com/2008/11/evisu-deluxe-silk-denim-jacket.html
He’s also got the jeans here.
http://five-secondskin.blogspot.com/2009/08/evisu-deluxe-single-neddle-jeans.html
Very nice indeed.
Eternal 811 – full length pics
Thursday, May 28th, 2009Someone was asking for full-length pics of the Eternal 811s. I just gave them a wash, so here are the pics.
I only washed them a couple of times for the first two years, but now the washing is quite regular. No brushing technique. The contrast is pretty high, so washing will tone it down a bit. They just go in the LG front-loader with Omo.
Enishi Denim: Yoshi
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Repairs
Friday, April 10th, 2009Last week I made some repairs to the Eternals. I should’ve taken pics before the repairs, but I’m getting lazy with this blog. Hah.
Here’s the result.
The seat had a crease which was starting to wear through, so I used a swatch of denim on the inside and just sewed back and forth.
The crotch had a hole, so I did the same there. You can see the repair thread more clearly here.
And the keys were really starting to destroy, the pocket, so some denim on the inside of the pocket, and sewing through the lot.
I’d been cuffing these since new, so there were parts of the cuff that were close to wearing through… so I did some zig-zagging without re-inforcing.
I’m not an expert on denim repairs, but these are my beginners tips:
- set the stitch length to quite short
- use a specific denim repair thread like this one from Gutermann
http://www.sewingselections.com.au/catalogue/Threads/Gutermann/2.html
It’s a mix of blue and white, so it blends in with faded denim.
On the inside I used a black poly thread. I probably should have used the denim thread on the inside, but it seems okay.
Flathead 3001
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
So, I only bought one pair of denim jeans in Japan. Flathead 3001.
I got these from Americaya in Ueno. http://www.rakuten.ne.jp/gold/americaya/
I’m hoping they’ll be a bit like the Eternal 811s.
I put my Japan photos up on Flickr. You can check them out here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indigofan/sets/72157615620128790/detail/
Eternal 811 – second wash and repairs
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008I’ve been using my experimental clean-by-brushing technique to keep my jeans away from water. It works well, I think you should try it. I think this method has given me more than six months of extra wear out of these jeans prior to each wash.
I had a few repairs to make. My keys wore a number of holes through the front left (my left) pocket, and the fly buttons had the stitching around the button hole coming off.
I used white cotton twill to repair the pocket bag – a combination of hand and machine stitching.
Maybe I’m lazy… I left the repairs badly finished, but it felt appropriate.
I zigzagged the fly button hole edges to re-enforce them (post wash pic).
During the repairs, the close-up work made me realise that I should wash these suckers ie. they stank. So I gave them a decent wash. Hot water, Dr. Bronners, quite a bit of hand agitation.
Some post-wash pics…
Honeycombs
Reverse combs
Yeah.
These are my favourite jeans at the moment. Wish I had a second pair.
Levis 1880 Nevada Raw
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Levis are running a reproduction of the oldest known jeans, the Nevada. Older jeans were lost in the San Francisco Earthquake fires. These originals were found down a mineshaft in the Nevada desert. Hence the name.
These replicas are on sale in Japan in a limited (150) box set (60,000 JPY) with some awesome leather suspenders. They’ve sold out of my size.
http://www.e-levi.jp/shop/mens/ProductsDetail.do/shop_products_id/167
They are also on ebay for $1,000 USD, which is a considerable mark-up.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Levis-1880-Nevada-jeans-501-big-E-Rigid-Special-Levi%27s_W0QQitemZ330251706843QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0807111760r14012
If you can do without the box and the leather suspenders, you can get them from Cultizm for $209 USD.
http://www.cultizm.com/product_info.php?info=p207_Levi-acute-s-reg–KNAPPAVE-1880-s-JEANS-RIGID.html
I wonder if the Cultizm ones are exactly the same as the box set ones? I know that they’re the best value of the three… but I really want those suspenders.
If you like stacking…
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Evisu 2000 No.2 first wash
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
