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Treating raws with grease

post #1 of 41
Thread Starter 
Okay so here's a thought. Lets say hypothetically you work as a server in a restaurant. The uniform is blue jeans, black shirt, black sneaks. You can wear whatever brand of jeans you want. You work at this said restaurant 40 hours a week, and it's very arduous. Lots of squatting, lifting, running, walking, etc.

Usually, that level of activity is considered great for raw denim, possibly fading it way faster than everyday wear.

The only problem is, it's kind of a greasy place. A lot of butter being flung around, dressing dripping off plates, steak grease splashing at the dish pit, etc.

Despite the dirtiness, I can personally get by washing my jeans only once a month. A pair of 7's, as of right now.

Would this restaurant setting be an opportunity to break in raws just for work, or do you think the whole dirtiness factor will negate any outcome?
post #2 of 41
I worked in Alaska at a cannery and thought it might be a good idea to wear raw denim because of the hard manual labor I was doing. After a day of work I realized it was a horrible idea and that I would stink like a rotting fish if I went through with it. I think raw denim is only applicable when you are doing work that doesn't dirty your clothes with organics that can rot.
post #3 of 41
Just wash your jeans more often.
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post #5 of 41
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Just wash your jeans more often.

this. jeans were made for manual labor. cowboys and farmers get all sorts of (figurative and literal) crap on them. they're still going to fade, in fact the arduous work days of these types of people are the reason why some people try to wear their raw denims to do any sort of outdoor/dirt related activity.
post #6 of 41
From personal experience, there's no way you can get your jeans disgustingly dirty just by working as a server in a restaurant. They might get stained here and there, but that's the most you have to worry about. However, if you choose to work in the back of the house, that's were all the magic happens. You'll sweat more than you thought was possible, and feel instantly drained with the heat from the first few minutes that your shift starts. If they allow you to wear jeans in the kitchen there is plenty of grease to get them not only stained, but saturated in oil. You can also volunteer to clean the vent hood and that will definitely get you some nasty stains on you pants. BTW, the squatting, lifting and running is greatly exaggerated, you'll be doing some fast walking and light lifting, nothing that will really stretch and fade your jeans.
post #7 of 41
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Just wash your jeans more often.

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post #8 of 41
Maybe find some new old stock water from the 1880's so you don't damage your jeans washing them. I hear their water was made from babys tears is why it didn't "ruin" their jeans when they washed them in the old days.
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post #10 of 41
get a pair you don't care about (511 or 514 raws or something) wear to work and not anywhere else fade the crap out of them in short time wash and wear in other places, and buy a new pair of raws cannot guarantee it'll work, but it'd be what i would do, I usually wear 510's in the lab if I think I could get chems on them.
post #11 of 41
I've worn duck cotton dickies much like you mention wearing jeans...

They just wreak to high hell, the hem came undone, and a beltloop gaveout.

The oil won't lead to good fades, just stains... stains look gross IMO.

just wash your jeans or else you'll redefine peasant steez

-rF
post #12 of 41
Thread Starter 
So in the end, everyone concludes that jeans worn in this workplace must be washed more often. But as I've learned, you're not supposed to wash raw denim. So is this idea out the window? This wasn't brought up out of necessity, but just for aesthetics. If I did have a pair of raws just for work, I wouldn't wear them anywhere else since they would smell anyway. I thought a decent pair of selvedge would look really nice at work after a few weeks rather than wearing my crappy jeans instead. I initially got this idea because I noticed that one pair of jeans I wore to work for about five months, a rather plain Express, had beautiful fading that I swear they never had before I started wearing them to work. So I thought if a pair of Express jeans faded this well, then some real selvedge raws would probably look great if they could last through the sweat, stench, and grease stains. And as for the physical effort of my job, I've had a lot of servers from other restaurants complain about how ridiculous our sidework is. Half the restaurant is operated by the servers while we're actually serving tables, as opposed to the kitchen doing it. One last quick note... the topic title was a pun. I wasn't actually thinking of treating jeans with grease.
post #13 of 41
Or you could wash and bleach them constantly and get a sweet washed out pair of summer jeans Ala:
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Just wash your jeans more often.

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post #15 of 41
I think you need to review the definition of Pun. Unless you are a bumbling idiot you won't get grease on your pants too often. If you work exclusively in the kitchen you probably wear an apron anyways. Obligatory:
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