Other Brands of Jeans

[Giles]

@tfar:

What a bummer. I never had the stitching on any jeans break. Maybe I'm not hard enough with my jeans? I mean I do wear them until they get holes in the knees and I always stow my wallet and keys in the front pockets. But I never had any stitches break not even on cheap jeans.

Till

I always bust cotton stitching, Poly core takes me a lot longer.  G

[Guest]

How do you bust em up like that ?….never heard of poly-core....you flexing your denim knowledge now...respect !

[Giles]

Polycore has a central core of a  filament or filaments of polyester which is then wrapped with coitton.  It looks like cotton from the outside but is many times stronger.  All IH stuff is sewn together with super-strong polycore - Haraki claims it to be the strongest he can source (and I have no reason to doubt that), occasionally he will use 100% cotton yarn for areas of construction/detail where super strength is not needed (arcuates for instance).  Obviously, traditionally jeans were stitched together with 100% cotton yarn, but it does wear and bust pretty quickly.  Some people love the fact that it does and many of the repro (sorry - tribute)  jeans use cotton as it is more "traditional".

[deadendpro]

@LandoCal126:

TSL stuff supposed to come into SE in the next week or so I believe.

Yeah, I have been waiting to see an email sent out via their email newsletter that usually goes out after new shipments and what not. Really hoping that more info comes to be known once Kiya has them in stock. I got interested in this brand over a year ago but there really isn't much on the forums about this brand, so I'm hoping kiya brings about a change and flood of info about TSL

[Heavy Duty]

SugarCane: Okinawa
SugarCane:Union Star(x2)
Stone Island: Compact
Stone Island: Giant (x3)
Pace: 001
One True Saxon: Model unknown
One True Saxon: Wizard "Lucky Bag"
Paul Smith Red Ear: Made In Japan
Paul Smith Red Ear: Model Unknown
Paul Smith Red Ear: Made In Japan for Blue In Green
Samurai: 240z
Albam: Model Unknown
Prada: Model Unknown
Replay: 901(x3)
Diesel: New Saddle
Diesel: Trading
Calvin Klein: Model Unknown
Bape: Wrangler Repro
OKI NI X Duffer: Cone White Oak

[deadendpro]

@Giles:

On the basis that Paula merely signed up to the forum to shut me up and obviously has no intention of viewing, let alone posting, here are most of mine, 2 or 3 pairs lost in the house somewhere.

Free T-shirt if someone can ID the lot!

I've got a bit of a thing going on with jackets at the moment too, I'll post a pic when I get a mo'

ok, i suppose i will start with the Sugarcanes:
3rd row (top to bottom)
Union Star
Hawaii
Okinawa
*kinda hard to see the date, but, because i see that giles does not really favor the taper of a 66 cut, i am guessing the 1947

Samurai
…fail, i tried to find it but came up empty, and i know soon someone is gonna say exactly what it is...

TW
TWHR01 (3rd row bottom)
TW201 (2nd row, 2nd to last)

Freebee
FB-301's (times 2)

IronHeart
634s (x2, one worn one new)
634sr
801
the one with only the W and no leather tag threw me off. ouch. lol

Flat Head
5100
3003-WWII
1005
Crisp new 5005
F380
3007
3005 ltd

2 worn pairs of jeans that give no insight as to what they are

TSL
D51xxx

ok, well i tried. and i washed 2 hours down the drain. its was kinda fun...kinda

[Beatle]

sweet collection, Giles…did u already post evo pics of those IH jeans (bottom row, 2nd from right) ..they look like they've been doing construction and had a rough life .

[deadendpro]

^ i think those are his 634s he has in the IH.co.uk gallery

[Beatle]

there's only 3 detail pics….maybe Giles can update them on evo ? That would be great

[Giles]

@Beatle:

sweet collection, Giles…did u already post evo pics of those IH jeans (bottom row, 2nd from right) ..they look like they've been doing construction and had a rough life .

http://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=104.msg765#msg765

[Giles]

Dead.  You want me to confirm or want to see if someone can get some of the other first?

[Beatle]

I would say Samurai is S0510WX, 19oz

If the question was which Samurai is seen in Giles collection…

[Giles]

S5000WX

[Beatle]

Damn , they do have the same patch…

[Giles]

What's a digit between friends? :)…G

[Beatle]

[deadendpro]

@Giles:

S5000WX

DAMN IT!!!!! I KNEW IT WAS A 5000 CUT!!!!!!!! 

lol, all good, i just wanted to see about how much of it i had correct..

[Giles]

Will check tomorrow. Quite a lot.  But there were a couple of jeans in there that never made it to production, so unless you were me or Haraki, you were not going to get them all.  But depending on how you did, I may decide to give you a T anyway.  I will get my red pen out tomorrow…G

[deadendpro]

oh snaps! i guess the 2 hours doing it wasn't that bad after all!  ::)

[deadendpro]

^ he didnt say that the tee was mine, he said he would see. lol. no need to get my hopes up. if it happens it happens. if not, no biggie, its always fun to look at 3005's