Finally achieved a perfect pair of natural distressed denim
Nudie - Steady Eddie 2016
10 years
1,000-1,200 wears
15-20 washes
*2 towards the end with a tiny bit of bleach for fading
*most washes after the first 100 wears
4 continents traveled
3 crotch blowout repairs
4 new pockets
2 self stitched knee holes
1 hem repair
1 new belt loop
2 patched holes in the thigh
I guess that's the secret to a pair of perfectly (in my opinion) faded and distressed pair of jeans!
Such a sick feeling knowing every hole, crease, fade, whisker, honeycomb, and rip is a lesson, a memory, an activity, or a challenge I overcame in the last decade. Same jeans I wore the night I first got laid, I wear today as I get ready for my wedding! Took a lot of work, but man did I have some fun along the way (life, that is). The jeans were easy - just took awhile to show their true stripes.
Imagine paying money for some child laborer in Vietnam to sandblast your jeans to attempt to mimic all of that....couldn't be me lol
**Jeans photoshopped onto AI background for privacy reasons. Actual jeans are unedited except for stage lighting in portrait mode on IPhone 15 pro max