Denim + Rain = Sadface

Dekayte · Apr 18, 2008

So I searched around and couldn't find a thread about it so here it is.

I was coming home from dinner with a friend and when I got outside it was pouring/thundering/other stormlike problems. I wore my new pair of APC NS that I bought earlier last week, so there was next to no indigo loss yet. I just cried the whole way to my car, then the whole way from my car to my place.

In any case, my question is what the hell do you guys do about this. I checked the weather before I went out and it was beautiful, 74 degrees, so I didn't take an umbrella.

I've never actually wore my raw denim out in the rain (beyond a light rain, or I had an umbrella) so I don't know what I should do. Wear them and let them air dry? Hang dry them? etc.

selbsttatig · Apr 18, 2008

Uh, let them dry.

bant · Apr 18, 2008

wear your jeans and stop your whining. they are pants - deal with it...

landho · Apr 18, 2008

There was a similar post from an earnest and new member in which he was lambasted and ridiculed for asking basically the same question.

DBoon · Apr 18, 2008

yup yet another case of treating a flower pot like a vase. Wearing your denim in absolute pouring rain will happen at least once in what i hope will be your months-long pre-wash journey....its NOT a big deal at ALL...just let them dry and keep going.

(you can wash your jeans once a week and still get fades....it just takes longer...)

Dekayte · Apr 18, 2008

Originally Posted by landho

There was a similar post from an earnest and new member in which he was lambasted and ridiculed for asking basically the same question.

My bad. I did a search through the forums and another thread didn't come up when I typed the thread title.

Mods go ahead delete/close/whatever.

whodini · Apr 18, 2008

You're gonna be ridiculed as an absolute ***** for this. Mildly deservedly so.

People, ask me if I'm surprised that this question happens to include APC's.................

sidney · Apr 18, 2008

My pants are shrinking unevenly... HALP!

Dekayte · Apr 18, 2008

I was actually looking for something along these lines more than to vent/cry about the rain. Just wanted to make sure I was taking care of them, regardless of if they were APCs, Diors, KMWs, etc.

Originally Posted by j

I wore my APC NS to a motorcycle class when they were raw. In the middle of the second day, the skies opened up and dumped on us for like an hour. They were completely soaked through. Then I had to drive us all the way home from Port Angeles to Seattle (a few hours) and I didn't have anything to change into. So I sat on a towel, cranked the heat and they dried on me like that. I'm convinced that is the reason why the creases set so well and the fade ended up pretty awesome. (Until I washed them a couple more times and killed the contrast, but that's what you get.) P.s. if you want to replicate this I highly recommend buying a car with black leather interior.

DBoon · Apr 18, 2008

True, whodini....

...but I bet if 99% of this forum were to ask something about, oh - care maintenance and repair - the results would be much more laughable. Granted this isn't a gearhead forum. It's good to keep in mind that everyone is a completely ignorant f!@#ing moron about something.

whodini · Apr 18, 2008

Originally Posted by DBoon

True, whodini....

...but I bet if 99% of this forum were to ask something about, oh - care maintenance and repair - the results would be much more laughable. Granted this isn't a gearhead forum. It's good to keep in mind that everyone is a completely ignorant f!@#ing moron about something.
Did you mean "car" maintenance and repair? If so, your spelling is laughable.

landho · Apr 18, 2008

Originally Posted by Dekayte

My bad. I did a search through the forums and another thread didn't come up when I typed the thread title.

Mods go ahead delete/close/whatever.

For the record, I think this is a perfectly legitimate question, and I don't think that the OP of the other post deserved the abuse that he got. People usually ask questions because they want answers.

whodini · Apr 18, 2008

Originally Posted by landho

For the record, I think this is a perfectly legitimate question, and I don't think that the OP of the other post deserved the abuse that he got. People usually ask questions because they want answers.
Since I'm already the asshole in this thread, I'd like to point out that the OP said, and I'll quote:

Originally Posted by Dekayte

I just cried the whole way to my car, then the whole way from my car to my place.

Put it in context. Jesting or not, he's talking about crying over a pair of jeans because they came into contact with water.

Dekayte · Apr 18, 2008

Originally Posted by whodini

Put it in context. Jesting or not, he's talking about crying over a pair of jeans because they came into contact with water.

It was more about running to my car more than my jeans getting wet. In any case, I got my answer from J in the old thread. Sorry for the trouble.

chris902 · Apr 18, 2008

You didn't really cry, did you?

They're jeans - workwear. Rain won't break them.

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