Denim Jackets - New or Vintage

[Monitor]

Don’t you get elbow bags by doing that? I mean unless you can keep your arms straight for several hours. This is why I think wearing dump jeans until they dry is rubbish unless you never sit/squat etc


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Not with the super heavy denim, no. I don't think this happens on trucker jackets anyhow... At least I've never seen it on a jacket?

Happens to me on every pair of jeans I own, though.

 

[Mich486]

I did wear a pair of 501 STF until dry once to not do it ever again I guess with jackets is less of an issue although I’m not sure I’ll ever try it.


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[navetsea]

IH guys say that denim jackets shrink mostly in length, not width. Something to do with the... Actually, I don't have a clue how it works but apparently, the widths should remain the same even if some shrinkage occurs. I've never had this happen to any of my denim jackets. Even tried soaking the IH Type 3 into the bathtub filled with steaming water and nothing happened.

I guess ultimately we cannot predict what's going to happen as all these different materials will be affected differently. Levi's denim won't shrink at all, that's something I'm sure of, though.

But I don't think you can mess it up too badly, whatever the outcome. Denim will stretch and it will become softer with wear so if you wear it for a while, even if it shrunk initially, it should go back to how it started. And what @navetsea says, ain't nothing gonna shape your jacket better than wearing it while it dries.

I think they turn the fabric 90 degree for front and back yoke, thats why I think it shrank a bit on the shoulder width if the fabrics is the kind to shrink, while the chest is hardly affected, just my speculation, and perhaps compared to knee and elbow our shoulder is too round to stretch back the shoulder seam, the seams then just rest on top of the shoulder and the sleeve right after it become rounder to make room for shoulder and affecting sleeve length more.. but somehow I learn to live with slightly too short sleeve on my denim jacket as long as the body fits trim, much easier to accept than leather jacket sleeve being too short

edit: I look again the fabric is not rotated for the yoke on denim jacket unlike the yoke of jeans , so I dunno

Don’t you get elbow bags by doing that? I mean unless you can keep your arms straight for several hours. This is why I think wearing dump jeans until they dry is rubbish unless you never sit/squat etc


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I think it gives elbow flare like riding jacket with curved sleeve while denim jacket sleeve are mostly cut straight but not to the point of sagging bag.

 

[navetsea]

i always wear my jackets and jeans to dry with every wash, leather jackets are the absolute worst they are also take hours to really dry unless you take it for a ride or for a walk , denim jacket not so much they dry quite fast, the inside pockets / pocket bags of the handwarmers are the only annoying part they feel wet and pressing against your waist and the last to dry, jeans depending on the heaviness, heavy jeans keep its tubular shape so even when wet they are not clingy and dunno they are quick drying and not so bothering physically, wet thinner jeans feels worse since they stick to your legs and really feel wet.

 

[Trenchfriend]

As much as I hate high-summer, but yesterday, I enjoyed the last breathy, comfortable jeans-shorts day!!

 

[Bamaboots]

i always wear my jackets and jeans to dry with every wash,

Damn!

 

[navetsea]

Damn!

Err, correction
Only for raw jeans and jacket thing... of which i rarely wash 1wash per 3 months or so.... oh and leather jackets which is even rarer.

 

[M Brown]

I have a vintage Pendleton denim jacket with a blanket back.
My wife now wears my old Levis jacket that I've had for 40+ years.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Jeans-shorts make you much taller!

I went to supermarket and crossed our vital place with railstation platform and the bus stops. Of course, on warm summer evenings are more teens around and joking passersby won't be long in coming.

"Such a towser! And straddled-legged, too!"

But I never do them the favor to react. I'm cool as f..k.

 

[Captain Sensible]

This has to be seen to be believed

 

[Trenchfriend]

This has to be seen to be believed

I translated, and the german tone was:

"So ein Schrank! Und noch breitbeinig!".

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Jeans-shorts make you much taller!

I went to supermarket and crossed our vital place with railstation platform and the bus stops. Of course, on warm summer evenings are more teens around and joking passersby won't be long in coming.

"Such a towser! And straddled-legged, too!"

But I never do them the favor to react. I'm cool as f..k.

Yeah, wait till someone driving by yells out “Hey bird legs”!!
That will stick with you for decades! Lol
Until then....enjoy.
B

 

[Mich486]

Wearing jeans-shorts in high-summer comes with its own risks.

You never mentioned whether they are blue-stone though and I feel pretty disoriented by this lack of such key information.


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[Captain Sensible]

Wait, wait, wait. Are we talking 100% cotton, or is there some lycra/elastane content?

 

[Trenchfriend]

It's darkblue stone, 1% elasthane.

 

[jpk_NJ]

I'm definitely a rookie when it comes to denim jackets so I wanted to see what the lounge thinks of this Levis I'm contemplating buying. I don't usually see copper buttons on trucker jackets so Im thinking this might be too flashy/tacky? Made of selvedge denim USA. Worth $100?? New with tags

 

[Trenchfriend]

Yeah, wait till someone driving by yells out “Hey bird legs”!!
That will stick with you for decades! Lol
Until then....enjoy.
B

I would bet, todays german kids don't know the old "stork legs/bird legs"-term!

 

[El Marro]

Jeans-shorts make you much taller!

Not as tall as trucker shorts make you!

 

[El Marro]

I'm definitely a rookie when it comes to denim jackets so I wanted to see what the lounge thinks of this Levis I'm contemplating buying. I don't usually see copper buttons on trucker jackets so Im thinking this might be too flashy/tacky? Made of selvedge denim USA. Worth $100?? New with tags

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I think the copper buttons are just fine. What I don’t really like is the heavy wear on both the left pocket flap and the left side of the collar. I think they overdid the artificial aging thing a little bit in those two locations

 

[ton312]

I'm definitely a rookie when it comes to denim jackets so I wanted to see what the lounge thinks of this Levis I'm contemplating buying. I don't usually see copper buttons on trucker jackets so Im thinking this might be too flashy/tacky? Made of selvedge denim USA. Worth $100?? New with tags

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Offer $75. You can find it for that if you try. I love Levi’s stuff. It’s not on the same level as my IH stuff but it’s damn good none the less. I love the Sherpa versions. Cheap, warm and bad ass.

I know to most folks they probably look like junk but I just love them.