First up are a pair of SL-100x’s from Erik H. They’ve been worn for 5 months with no soaks:

These are Ken P’s ST-100x’s – also several months old with several soaks:

Yuh L. shared with us that his ST-100x jeans were his first pair of raw jeans. He’s worn them to Korea and Hong Kong, and also in China where he taught English to rural families over the summer.  These are really starting to show some interesting color variation.

Luke M.’s jeans went on tour with him through Europe and were worn every day for 5 months – the left picture shows the jeans before their first wash, and the two images to the right are post wash.

Josh B. hails from San Diego – we really liked the photos he sent over. Though the jeans were relatively new when he took the photos, he mentioned that he’s a barista and that the coffee grounds he wipes off his hands is starting to give the jeans an interesting patina.

These are Mike P.’s 7 month old ST-210 jeans… the difference in color is quite remarkable considering that they start off looking like this.

Though none of the entries above were the winning pair, we’ll be sending each one a discount code for our online store as a thank you for participating. Stay tuned as we announce the contest winner soon.

James Wilson (Secret Forts) and Max Wastler (All Plaid Out) will be wearing and documenting the progress of our SL-100x and ST-100x, respectively, on Denim Debate. The site was started by Ryan of [you have broken the internet] as a means to showcase jeans as they wear, age, and change over time. In Ryan’s words, Denim Debate was created to “see how 22+ denim brands stand up against the efforts of the individuals assigned to wear them in. For the next year our contributors -from all walks of life- will live in their brand’s entry. It will be the job of each to bring the denim to its knees, all the while documenting the progress for you to observe.”

Check out the site here.

A little teaser of a new project we’re working on with Tanner Goods. Details forthcoming…

A Styleforum member posted that they saw our denim promo shots in last night’s episode of “How to Make it America” – a new HBO series that follows two entrepreneurs trying to start a denim line. Above is the screen shot of the scene where the main character, Ben Epstein, is showing his inspiration book to a pattern maker while trying to explain the cut of jeans he wants to develop. You can see the original image here.