27 February 2009 -- 3 months, first wash

Samurai's 19 oz. S710XX at 3 months.






First wash a few days ago in hot water, hot dryer.












Oh! And a recent fit picture.

27 January 2009 -- 2 months

Samurai's 19 oz. S710XX at 2 months -- weekend warrior!









Color is starting to come through. After spending a lazy winter indoors for the most part, sitting around in the jeans, I'm excited that the temperature will rise back up into the muggy, humid Florida you're all familiar with.








The aforementioned soak didn't rid the jeans of dryer creases. For fuck's sake! Also contemplating having these hemmed.

30 December 2008

Oh! It's another one of these pictures. I am so pokey to get a jeans to take shape, but they are coming along.

19 December 2008 -- one month

Since I didn't start wearing these until around the middle of November, I guess it's safe to call these the "one month" pictures, with a few things to note.









These pictures were taken with yet another different camera (I went through two during the previous year of denim documentation!) This time around, it is a Canon Powershot Pro 1. I hate digital cameras! I can never seem to get acquainted with the settings on any given digital camera, so these pictures look like one big unbalanced, shadowy mess (to me, anyhow.)








Also, the creased lines going down the length of the leg are a result of running these through the dryer for their initial shrink-to-fit wash & dry. If these don't wear themselves out soon, I'll likely be soaking the jeans to get rid of them.

16 December 2008

Hey! Don't mind these posts. Since there isn't a whole lot of progression going on just yet, I've been taking periodic pictures to evaluate how the fit is coming along. So far, I've been going on my little bike trips in them, as well as some skateboarding in the past few weeks.





I think tomorrow will be an appropriate day for some taken-outdoors pictures. Perhaps!

20,November.

Happy 20,November. In the off-chance that any Japanese ever read this, I think they'll be the only ones to get that little reference... and even still, only a handful of them will get it! Oh gosh. It's a bemani reference. Okay!


About a month has elapsed since purchasing these jeans, and I've had very few opportunities to wear them! I'm starting to love the shape they are taking -- they've had maybe a week's worth of wear up to this point. With this pair I decided to experiment with cuffing, thinking it would simulate the benefits of having them hemmed (so they'd fall on the leg better,) but this left me with some severe kneebagging. I've decided to just let them fall as they may, with no cuffs. Here is how they fit now -- outdoor detail shots will begin in a month or two, once some real progress is made.

Post Soak.

A comparison of before and after -- how the jeans fit before touching water, and how they fit following a hot wash and a hot dry cycle.