To no ones excitement but my own, today is a special day. I have now worn this current pair of Raleigh Denim for 200 times without washing. Gross? maybe. Smelly? at times. Awesome looking? absolutely! The reason something as ridiculous as this would happen is because youre not supposed to wash raw denim until youre ready to set the dye in. Good god, what does that even mean? Well, it means that unlike most jeans, raw denim is unwashed ('raw') after the cotton is dyed and the jeans are made, allowing the wearer to impart their lifestyle via fading and holes produced in the product. As youll notice in the photos below, how you live is shown on your jeans. The top photo is my wallet pocket and as you can see, the outline of the wallet has been nicely worn in with a hole starting where the most stress is on the denim. The photo below shows the left leg of the jeans with creases faded in both at the knees and thighs. This process will happen with any jeans but prewashed jeans will take longer to show the fading (if they are of high quality) and usually have their own 'wash' when you purchase them making it less of a personal wear pattern.
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