The Seven Samurai

Documenting the progress of 7 Samurai jeans around the Globe and all the Fun bits that came along.

Thin_Finn(S0500XX)

So guys…

this will be my main page to feed you with any kinda updates on my pair of Samurais S0500XX, so you can see how things went their way from day 1 till “the end”…

Model:S0500XX

Details:

  • 15oz Original Japanese selvage denim
  • 100% Texas Cotton
  • 100% pure indigo with no fillers
  • got these from a sufu-member (initial soak, 10 days in) so almost brand new!

Start Date: 30.06.2010

Fit pics: (after 2nd soak!)

20 days in:

Wash Info: 1. initial soak from 1st owner!  2. soak: 05.07.2010 (hottest tap water, 65min.)  3. soak: 01.07.2010 (hottest tap water, 65min.)

Days of wear: 40 @ 23.08.2010

Going to shoot the pics for my one month update during this week. Will update after every 30-40 days of wear !!!


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So guys,

here are my S0500XX at 1.5 Months in. Going to count this also as my 2 month Update cuz i don’t want to update in 2 weeks again :-)

My older post shows the whole info on these till today so take a look there to find out wuz up with these.

Now the pics (outside!)…

Detail-shots…

need to vacuum again i think ^^ …

Hardware…

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so finally here are my sammies post wash. only 2 months in but i had to wash them…reason is totally clear i think :-)…

i also fixed some broken threads after the wash before i’m going to start wearing them again.

so for now that’s it and i won’t take any more pics cuz there’s nothing much going on with them imo…next month update i promise to take more pics

I’ve also fixed some broken threads!

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s0500, 4months in, 2nd wash today! (19.02.2011)
true to colour in pic 3 and 4 !









postwash pics will follow when i have the time too!

stretched them out while still damp and as i already had them off my legs again, i thought another stretch shouldn’t be a problem and went for it (i thought the denim was fully unbuttoned!) :(

first button snapped…fuck!