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DonkeyJacket1

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Or when turtles ed pops out!

Diarrhea farts are the deadliest ones, no one wants to feel the warm waterfall going down the leg

Anyone want to buy my jeans?

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[QUOTE="Yorky, post: 10091779, no one swears better than a Yorkshireman.
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Try that one in Glasgow !
 

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That’s the turn up style I’m gonna try on the next raw/unwashed pair I buy.
Gets a nice look at the hem over time when the denim starts to fade .

@dopeman the look you describe when the denim begins to fade - is it like this? On the girl's jeans?

Daily Mirror 1969 Finchley Park.jpg

When I was younger, back at the same time these pictures were taken, that did tend to be the (cheap) way of turning up jeans.

But I got the feeling from what @Yorky said in his post that he was keen to avoid the visible line, which you (if I understand correctly) seem to favour?

BTW, I found this and other pictures from the set on Facebook - they seem the 'cleanest' versions I have seen.
 

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Just my humble opinion but this kind of hem is very dated! I think i had flared jeans hemmed like that as a kid in the 70s... ouch...
Well each to his own etc.

Usually i don't need hems on Jeans as i find the correct length. When i need hems on Jeans, i usually go to the tailor, as like @Mr Knightley i prefer the 'original finish on denim' look, or sometimes to have sewn turn-ups.
 
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That long turned in hem was the cheapo way our Mams did it as we were kids and they didn’t want to cut the length so turned it all in, allowing for gradual lengthenings as we hit growth spurts.
The theory is fine but with jeans you got those unsightly rings around the bottoms, which were bad enough at the first hemming but looked even worse when lengthening took place after they’d been washed several times (every week in those days, none of this rank wearing them for months then putting them in the freezer!!)
 

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That long turned in hem was the cheapo way our Mams did it as we were kids and they didn’t want to cut the length so turned it all in, allowing for gradual lengthenings as we hit growth spurts.
The theory is fine but with jeans you got those unsightly rings around the bottoms, which were bad enough at the first hemming but looked even worse when lengthening took place after they’d been washed several times (every week in those days, none of this rank wearing them for months then putting them in the freezer!!)
I find the freezer thing weird and never tried!
TBH so far there is only one pair of jeans that I didn't wash for a long time (aforementioned Lees) i Did left them in a room close to a opened window sometimes, and also regularly sprayed on them a fair amount of Eau de Cologne !

Gradual lenghtening of jeans... i remember the principle but not sure my Mam did it often for the simple reason my jeans were quickly Ramones style and then binned !
 

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