Denim Jeans are an icon to American comfort. Everyone has them, even if they don’t like to wear them a lot, everyone still has a pair of jeans. I don’t even wear jeans that much but I have at least 10 pairs sitting in my closet. I happen to only wear two pairs, one way more than the other. That’s what jeans should be all about, you have one pair, that you fit right and you never wash them … well sometimes.
What to buy.
What to buy.
Knowing how to shop for jeans is the key to finding the last pair that you may ever buy. It's not just about finding something that will fit you, which is important but not always paramount.
The most important thing to remember is that you want to buy raw denim or selvage denim if you can. The Levi’s shrink to fit 501’s are the least expensive choice at $40. Raw denim jeans are stiff as a board when you first buy them. You will have to soak them before you wear them. You can find raw jeans all over the 501’s are just the classic and least expensive.
Raw denim is important because it has not been messed around with. It is straight off the presses denim, little to no treatment whatsoever. The whole fun of having a good pair of jeans is that you make them your own.
You get a square where you wallet goes in your back pocket. You knee wear fits exactly where you knee is. You upper hip “whiskers” are there because you have sat down in those jeans so many times.
Wear them till people can’t stand the smell.
When should you wash your jeans? After much research and experimentation I have found the answer. When people around you start to notice the smell coming from your jeans.
it’s time to wash them.
It’s ok to get dirt on your jeans that’s kinda the whole point. If you don’t have to worry about getting your pants dirty, you should not be wearing jeans. Get paint on your jeans, fall down and make holes in your jeans, write on your jeans if you want. They are your jeans, do what you want with them.
“washing them”
When you first get a pair of raw denim jeans, run a hot bath, turn the jeans inside out, let them soak in it for about an hour to loosen them up, then let them dry overnight. Put them on and wear them till you hear “hey, you smell terrible, I think you need to wash those pants”
When you hear that, do not, I repeat, do not throw them in the machine. If you wash them like you would a pair of regular pants, your going to mess everything up. You have to be gentile you don’t want to wash the fabric to much. You just want to get the grime off of them.
Once again, draw a hot bath for you jeans, and turn them inside out. This time go ahead and put a little color safe detergent in there. Agitate your jeans a little bit and then let the jeans sit for an hour, let dry over night and you ready to go.
If you take care of your jeans, they will be the only pair you ever have to wear. You might want to get some different shades but, really, who cares. They are jeans, wear them out.
