IH-526Lod - 19oz Left-Hand Twill Selvedge Denim Type III - Indigo Overdyed Black

[Crispy Heron]

@AdamJ Having been set on the IH-526L as my next purchase, having seen your pics, I may decide on the OD. Decisions, decisions.

[Daniel San]

definitely need one of those

[Jcaz6996]

Looks great mate Great pictures

[T4920]

Super happy with this, thanks @royc
XL feels tailor made for me, and it seems to have a little stretch too.

Beautiful stuff.

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[T4920]

Real happy with the fit on this one, fingers sore from the stiff button holes though!

[Jcaz6996]

Looks great @T4920 told you you’re going to love it . That was the first Type lll I bought.

[T4920]

@Jcaz6996 My first too! I love the velvet-esque feel (assumedly caused by the ODing), does this become less noticeable with wear and washes?

[A Former User]

@T4920 looks good mate!

[Mizmazzle]

Hey @AdamJ I was trying to access the world tour link on this Lefty OD and it says its not available. Any chance this makes it back to accessibility? I need to drool some more over this jacket.

[AdamJ]

@Mizmazzle Yes you can access it here: link to the goodness

The old forum had different URL formats so some old inline links referencing old posts might be dead. I will pin the world tour link to the top post too

[T4920]

I've been sleeping in this beauty to soften it up since receiving it on Monday. Taking cues from the @Oaktavia & Filthy school of denim taming.

It's working like a charm

[Mizmazzle]

@T4920 I can’t wait to join the lefty OD club. Is it everything you hoped It would be?

[T4920]

@Mizmazzle I bought it with zero expectations as I've never owned any 19oz LHT/OD Iron Heart garments, but after 5 days I can safely say I've never had a more comfortable or betting fitting jacket. The velvet-esque feel of it is my favourite thing though, and is only getting nicer by the day.

[Mizmazzle]

Sounds like a thing of beauty!!

[Oaktavia]

@T4920 hell yeah man I sleep in my wabby CPO every night.

[Lowlander]

@Oaktavia @T4920 I'm intrigued by this sleeping in your Iron Hearts. Do you do it to soften up the fabric? Or to speed up the fades (or both?). And do you get blue sheets?

I would try but my bed partner won't let me.

[T4920]

@Lowlander It's not something I'd do obsessively, but at the moment it's rather cold here in the UK and as of late, heating our homes has becoming stupidly expensive.

Figured that by sleeping in this jacket I could save a little money on heating, soften it up, and potentially kick start some fades, so it seemed like a good idea!

I certainly won't be doing it when winter is over though, that's for the true devotees and denim Magi like @Oaktavia

I'm also single, so there's no one here to judge my idiosyncratic behaviour.

[Lowlander]

Interesting, thanks @T4920. And sleep tight!

[Oaktavia]

@Lowlander said in IH-526Lod - 19oz Left-Hand Twill Selvedge Denim Type III - Overdyed Indigo:

@Oaktavia @T4920 I'm intrigued by this sleeping in your Iron Hearts. Do you do it to soften up the fabric? Or to speed up the fades (or both?). And do you get blue sheets?

I would try but my bed partner won't let me.

I sleep only in my IH shirts. I've tried wearing bottoms to bed like Mike but I get too hot and the feeling is too restricted for me. I don't think I would want to wear a jacket either, so kudos to @T4920 for doing that. I can wear work/westen/CPOs just fine so I stick with those. I sleep in them because I just love the feel of them and it feels fun to completely maximize the wear with them. My 295bb was so tough and stiff at first, I didn't want to stop wearing it before bed. Plus my wife understands my obsessive personality and had gotten used to it .

Even with my neurotic-ass self tossing and turning all night, I do not think the fades accumulate to much if anything at night. But part of me thinks my wabby CPO that I've been wearing nightly since late December would look different had I only wore it during waking hours. So maybe it does do some nightly indigo shedding. Our sheets are already blue/green so no noticeable crocking. Likely would be different with a new indigo top and white sheets.

Also if I die in my sleep, at least my ghost will have an IH western or CPO to float around in, paired with my drawers.

[Lowlander]

Thanks so much for your detailed response @Oaktavia! It's fantastic to read how all of us here obsess over our Iron Hearts in different ways (some more than others).

This cracked me up:

@Oaktavia said in IH-526Lod - 19oz Left-Hand Twill Selvedge Denim Type III - Overdyed Indigo:

Also if I die in my sleep, at least my ghost will have an IH western or CPO to float around in, paired with my drawers.