Washing your duds in suds
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@Heavy_blue thanks man! I really only started doing it a particular way because I found it’s kinda streamlined my methods. Laziness and results lol
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@WhiskeySandwich yeah we all have our ways! I’m nearly in 50 days straight in the 361 and i’m done with spot cleaning so i’m gonna soak now
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@WhiskeySandwich makes 'em crispy like a nice piece of bacon.
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@Oaktavia lol I like that fresh crispness a lot, it means I don’t have to worry about anything for a while and it helps with the contrast, but when they get buttery soft and shiny velvet, that’s my favorite. My 21ib are there and they’re def ready for a thorough hand wash, but I’ve been dragging them out to 100 wears, no wash no soak, just cuz I know they’ll be totally different after I do.
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Black water and there were piles of dust inside haha
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@Heavy_blue yeah the 16oz sbg handles soaks well imo. It’s a very unique denim due to its rigid tension. It bends like tin foil lol. So I’m a bit careful about its dye loss. It’s high-point dye loss makes for great contrast, but it also seems to lose a good bit overall with soaks. But no matter how often you do it, it seems that, thanks to the rigidity, you get contrast effortlessly anyway.
I found this to be sorta the case with the 18oz vintage denim too. Although it’s much looser, it somehow stays very crispy for a long time. So that gives good contrast If you wash sparingly at the beginning, then later it gets super soft and loose, which isnt as great for contrast fades, but if you delay the washes initially, that’s already happened. This is why I sprint through the first stage with most denim to get the contrast early, then ease up and wash more.
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@Heavy_blue awesome. It’s gonna have some nice white fuzz on the surface after that dries I bet. That bi-color velvet
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@WhiskeySandwich yeah dude! It’s hanging to dry as we speak and it reminds me of the inky black water from my XHSib! I flattened the creases and will flip it and wear to set the creases when this thing is half dry! I’m
Quite curious how it turned out