Sprezzatura2010
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Yesterday, my Chimala buckle-backs came in from the Farinelli's flash sale. (They were on my doorstep on Saturday, but I was not home.) They are very nice jeans. I like the detailing and the fit.
Chimala advertises these jeans as "relaxed fit." Yet, when comparing their measurements, I find they are the a little smaller than Nudie RRDS's with the same size waistband, and have about the same rise. (I expect, like the RRDS's, they will stretch out a bit.) The KMW 1950 and Earnest Sewn Fulton.50 are also similar in size above the knee. Likewise, a made-in-1998 (and heavily worn since then) Helmut Lang "Vintage Classic Denim: Boot Cut" have a similar rise and measurement through to the knee. (The 'Mut "Boot Cuts" taper more from the knee to the hem than the newer jeans!) When I bought those HL's, they were considered skinny jeans!
Jeans to jeans, they are also considerably smaller/tighter than the other jeans I bought, in PRPS's "Impala" fit. (Farinelli's did not have measurements for those.) Those jeans, along with Rogan Original cut and others, are more my definition of "relaxed fit."
I work out a little, but not much. Are the KMW 1950, vintage Helmut Lang, Earnest Sewn Fulton and such really considered "relaxed fit" today, or did Chimala lose something in translation?
NOTE: this post is not a "complaint." The measurements were there, after all, and the jeans are great. They fit me as well as many of my other favorites do!
And chances are they will stretch a bit all around.
But "relaxed fit," subjective though it may be, does not seem appropriate to me.
Chimala advertises these jeans as "relaxed fit." Yet, when comparing their measurements, I find they are the a little smaller than Nudie RRDS's with the same size waistband, and have about the same rise. (I expect, like the RRDS's, they will stretch out a bit.) The KMW 1950 and Earnest Sewn Fulton.50 are also similar in size above the knee. Likewise, a made-in-1998 (and heavily worn since then) Helmut Lang "Vintage Classic Denim: Boot Cut" have a similar rise and measurement through to the knee. (The 'Mut "Boot Cuts" taper more from the knee to the hem than the newer jeans!) When I bought those HL's, they were considered skinny jeans!
Jeans to jeans, they are also considerably smaller/tighter than the other jeans I bought, in PRPS's "Impala" fit. (Farinelli's did not have measurements for those.) Those jeans, along with Rogan Original cut and others, are more my definition of "relaxed fit."
I work out a little, but not much. Are the KMW 1950, vintage Helmut Lang, Earnest Sewn Fulton and such really considered "relaxed fit" today, or did Chimala lose something in translation?
NOTE: this post is not a "complaint." The measurements were there, after all, and the jeans are great. They fit me as well as many of my other favorites do!
But "relaxed fit," subjective though it may be, does not seem appropriate to me.