Your reasoning behind raw denim purchases.

Though I notice a lot of talk about raw denim, there's very little discussion here about why we purchase it. Your average person balks at paying hundreds of dollars for jeans - it does seem a little absurd when you look at it from an uneducated perspective. But when you're about to drop $150 on a pair, what prevents you from saving that money and grabbing a pair of washed Levis instead?

I was looking over a pair of Petite Standards and some Thin Finns, and I realized that I was about to spend $300 on two pairs of jeans. I justified this to myself originally by saying that the cuts would look great on me (I'm very skinny) and in a year I'd have some awesome fading. At the same time, I realized that the jeans I'm currently wearing (flimsy mall jeans) also fit me perfectly and have a decent wash to them as well. They cost me $30. I am peasant status and can't really afford nice things, so these denim purchases would use up a lot of the money I have at the moment.

So when you're at the checkout counter, online or otherwise, what do you tell yourself before you click "buy"?

you're like 2 years, 200 threads, and 2 trillion posts late


this is some serious

raw denim for the fades. **** looks cool. instead of mass produced fades that don't fit your body, you get your own customized fades that represent you lifestyle (eg what you do in them, what kinds of things you carry in your pockets)

raw selvedge denim can be had for I think $60 (uniqlo, gap), maybe $100 for slightly used APCs.


i think you need to head over to superfuture. go to supertrash. click on bookmarks thread (1st thread of forum). click on holy grail something ryu something denim. also check out superdenim encyclopiedia

because i just sit there for hours and look at my jeans


edit: this is a serious ass post

if you're wearing iron hearts: because your ex can kick you in the crotch and you won't feel a thing

Stare at your adequate mall jeans and in a few weeks they'll turn into something disgusting. Happened to me.

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Stare at your adequate mall jeans and in a few weeks they'll turn into something disgusting. Happened to me.

It's already happening, which is why I'm spending all my money.

Are you getting both in indigo?

Because you can have a year of enjoyment out of $200 and going to a movie costs $10.

Yeah. I'm getting the Thin Finn Ecru Embo in a 27 and the PS in 26. (My true waist is a 28).

My legs are very skinny. Thin Finns in 28 look somewhat baggy on me.

I don't need a reason.

You can try to justify your purchases behind any sort of fallacious arguments (cut, quality, hype...), but in the end, if you don't feel comfortable spending that much on jeans, nothing is forcing you to do so.

Long inseams.

Because dark indigo looks better than light indigo. Raw denim tends to be higher quality, too. Really though, being high quality and fitting well are why we buy expensive jeans, not buy raw jeans.

I've read posts here for a while and I have to say I am still confused about raw denim. Having high quality and nice fitting I agree with, but is "customized fading" that big a deal? Can any non-SF person tell the difference between raw jeans fading and pre-faded jeans?

I wear raw denim because it's expensive and it makes me feel better than other people when I wear expensive clothes

This sounds like a thesis topic for a consumer anthropology student.