That's a good ass interview. I have no more questions left about raw denim now. Imma wear my jeans till they fall apart completely.

At the end of the day, I think it’s important to remember that you paid for the product and you should use them as you please. I personally don’t like high contrast fades so I wash mine more frequently (every 20 -30 wears or so)

Shoutout to Zeke, who did an excellent job of motivating you all to wear and wash your jeans however you like to. 👌🏼

my dad has a wallet fade in his back pocket and its something that you only get from taking it in and out and having it in the same spot its one of the coolest things ive noticed with denim how the fading goes

I've worn raw denim from The Gap (my first pair), Unbranded, Brave Star, N&F, Rogue Territory, and Momotaro. They all went into the washing machine inside out on a gentle cycle using dark protect or regular detergent (no color safe bleach). The moment the rinse cycle is done I remove them, flatten them out by hand, and hang dry them. So far, so good (no weird marbling).

Good info & video, thanks. No one ever mentions fit as part of fade though. I find the tighter the jean, the faster the fade and conversely, loose and stovepipe legs fits seem to hold their color a lot longer. Just a thought.

I work in theatre and our costume shop uses spray bottled filled with potato vodka to kill germs and fight odors. Regardless, I still wash my jeans when they get smelly.

Cold does not kill bacteria. Not going to explain the reason I had to research that (looong story) but only heat kills bacteria regarding temperature. In fact, if you buy clothing from a country not known for its hygienic production (fur, goose down, animal based products etc) it’s best to have it cleaned before wearing.

i had some brown rick owen’s jeans from 2004 and threw them in the wash. there were no white lines prior to the wash, and post wash the jeans were almost as white as they were brown in some spots. i must’ve been the first person to wash them in years

Thanks! This has been very useful. Just looking for that worn out look, I washed my jeans very often to wash out the color. I just found out that the best way to wear them out is to not wash them very often. Cheers!

Ah, the freezer trick! During a cooking class in high school my teacher had made a point to dispel any myths about food. She taught that freezers don’t kill a single bit of bacteria, only momentarily suspend their growth. So, as soon as anything comes back out of a freezer growth will resume as normal without any bacteria having been eliminated.

Great video! I’d love to see you go out to California and do Brave Star someday.

I am one of those "purists" about jeans and fading. But my aesthetic revolves around having been wearing Levi's 501 shrink-to-fit jeans since the late 1960s. Jeans were not appreciated back then and restaurants and other establishments had rules against wearing jeans, especially if they were faded or had holes. In that environment it didn't make sense for Levi's to pre-fade. Back then you had to fade your jeans yourself to become a "hippie", you couldn't buy that in a store. So that is what we did, and I continue to do to this day. But jeans got accepted in society in the 1970s and by the 1980s everyone started wearing them, even those too impatient to fade their jeans. So Levi's started catering to them and they became the majority of jeans buyers. More recently the cotton quality of Levi's jeans is so low and thin they have to pre-fade to cover that up. Vintage US made Levi's 501s made up until 2000 get an authentic beautiful fade from just wearing, washing, and drying. But fashion is a lot about trends and fads. Today that manifests itself in not washing your jeans in order to develop unnatural "contrasts" and horizontal wear lines. It looks fake to me whether those horizontal lines were created by the buyers or a laser at the Levi's factory. It is interesting that videos like this promulgate these fads causing viewers to think they shouldn't wash their jeans to show them off. That is just another kooky modern fad like wearing your baseball cap backwards. Wear your jeans up to three days before washing unless you live down South where sweat requires washing after one day. The indigo dye doesn't absorb all the way through the cotton fibers. Fading is due to the cotton fiber's outer surface containing the indigo being rubbed off due to abrasion and secondarily due to the indigo being washed out. We wash jeans inside out because that minimizes abrasion in the dryer where most of the fading occurs. Washing inside out causes them to fade slower. If you want your jeans to fade faster then don't dry them inside out. Dry them in the dryer on hot. You can't eliminate shrinking, buy your jeans the correct size, shrink them, and be done with it. Never buy jeans that will be too small after they have shrunk. Never use bleach - that eats the jeans!

Super informative Thank you . Guy from N&F is so knowledgeable

Zeke tha GOAT!!!!

Hi Nick! Great video! I will definitely go purchase jeans when im in soho area.

6:58 Nick is like...ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?

Was there the other day and it did not occur to me the floor is lined with denim.. wow.

My man rocking a rad denim shirt heck yeah !

Hey Nick, is it possible to do a video on your favorite denim jackets? Or at least give me some recommendations of the most in-demand denim jackets out there? I am researching the hell out of the internet and have found some great options from 3Sixteen/Rogue Territory/Momotaro/Tanuki, etc but I am so new to denim that it can be difficult to narrow down. Thank you!

Wait you wear you jeans everyday! The same ones?

I like high contrast and I hate washing my jeans. I usually wait a year before they get their first soak. But I’ve moved to southern Florida and it’s so hot and humid here I think I’m going to have consider washing sooner because I don’t want them to get a sweaty funk smell.

Just wear it. Wash when needed.

Thank you for an excellent video. I need to buy some naked & famous. But 1st, I need to wear the jeans I have.

So much great advice here! Thank you 🙂

Just did this with my favorite pair of raw denim that I’ve been wearing for a year and a half and it completely ruined them. So that’s fun

I’m just looking forward to starting my fade - 3 attempts at buying Samurai S510XX 19oz but keep getting sizing wrong or in one case got sent a pair that had already been soaked. I have a pair on the way again so fingers crossed

nice interview!

Get a brush with a blend of horse hair and brass and brush your jeans after each use it'll help in keeping them clean in between washes.

if you work outside you’re washing your jeans everyday

This is crazy!

Great video! I've been wondering on this for a while, why the fades always associates with raw denim? Wouldn't normal rinse/dark wash jean get those fade as well (just maybe less contrast)?

I like my jeans a very saturated mid blue and don't want them to fade at all...

My wife thinks it's gross because I wear my jeans more than a couple times before washing them lol

my ~$250 USD polo jeans tend to rip out in the hindquarters after about 2-3 yrs of use. Should I try to restore these or will they be too weakened to use. I wash every few days. Can't have them stink

How do you define 3 month of wear? 5x a week 8h? What about commuter trousers? 2x a day 1h? That would make it a year instead of 3 month?

Keep up the great work

I have a brand new pair of jeans and cant return them, how do i fade them especially the front thigh area without wearing them?

2:55 LOL interesting choice of words. The brownish is "from the lack of washing".. Not because he's a filthy hippy haha

Denim is dyed using an ingredient called methylene blue, which is antifungal, and antibacterial

At 6:14 he says. But personally I just use TIDE Detergent tide detergent

alot of the factory distress gets wrecked when u wash denim

I wash my jeans after 2-3 wears coz i hate dirt.

Hey! What about ironing your jeans???

Legendary

Here in Texas we’ve worn jeans since we were two years old, and we wear denim jackets. There is nothing really innately fashionable about them. I buy several pairs of raw denim from the Big 3 when available for the fun of it, soak them in the tub and line dry three times before wearing. After, I just wear them without thought, wash them warm water and line dry after five or six wearings. We wear 101, 501, 505, or MWZ13 on the ranch. We wash our work jeans after every wearing in hot water with soap and a small amount of color-fast bleach to sanitize and patch when necessary.

I can only do 3 wears between washes, after that it just gets too gross for me. Going months and months....nope!!

Hey Nick what did you think of the mainline selvedge? Sticking to the easy guy fit?

Hi Stridewise, I'm writing to ask you which compartment of the washing machine the bleach goes in, as I don't have a compartment dedicated to it. Do I put it together with the detergent or in the softener or pre-wash compartment? I await your answer

Zeke looks like the lead singer of Zeke

12 months of swamp a$& is work jeans would be insane. This is 100 days of going to the coffee shop?

Aren’t any of those jeans for sale

So how do you wear the same jeans every day and no one notice? I feel like if I wore the same jeans after about day 5 my friends would start questioning me.

Going to wash my raw denims the first time in 8 years

What jacket are you wearing? Thanks!

I have a question. It was recommended to me to size down. I bought a Broken Twill Naked & Famous jeans and I'm normally a 32 but I was recommended to do a 31. It fits a little tight around the waist. It is 100% cotton. I was wondering if that's okay? will it stretch to my size over time? or will I wind up ripping the buttons from stretching them etc?

What brand denim jacket are you wearing?

Just wear your jeans. How hard is that to understand?

what model of jeans were on the table???

Can we discuss the stink. I mean, it’s gotta

freezing only makes the bacteria dormant. they will deactivate when the temp rises again.

how much bleach though? should the bleach be mixed with tide?

I think jeans look best when they're still pretty dark blue and still fairly uniformly blue ..so maybe what they look like after a couple of months of wear and 3-4 washes. Once they get large faded out patches on the front of your upper leg and/or rips etc...then they look like nasty wear that came out of a dumpster dive to me.

Tell me where u got your jacket from? ✌😎

¡ Wrangler ® !

This guy used to be me roomate but he spent most of his time at his girlfriend's

Technically, washing them will make them fade faster, given them an even fade. Nothing artificial, old school

If you look at pics of bikers from the 60's and 70's you can see really good denim fades; i.e. they weren't given to washing their jeans a whole lot...

Bang gif aku celana denim kombor bang udah paket lenkap plisss aku pengen bgt celana kayak gitu😢😢😊

I am afraid to wash mine, I do not want them to shrink at all….

They talkin 3 months, I wash mine after every 3 wears

bro 3 months without washing your jeans? what about us dudes with a girlfriend

Nick seemed shocked when the dude recommended washing the jeans with bleach

So he wears the the same jeans every day? Not all Day Wears obviously. Or he just puts them on...

Poor people in broken down pants are actually just Jean enthusiasts, noted.

So wait.... like dont wash them at all???? I literally can't do that... I skate, ride dirt bikes, I don't think raw denim is for me lol

Can you actually get a job as a "denim-wearer" for those who need to wear a suit 9-5?

3 MONTHS??????????????????????? NAH THATS CRAZY

I literally knew NONE OF THIS & that this 🌎 existed!! Soo washing my whole families jeans every time worn (28 pairs a week) is not right? The TIME I could've saved 🤦‍♀️

Wear them.

what kinda guy are you? weird, cool, easy, super, strong, groovy, stacked or skinny??

Skipped through but Isnt this video literally about washing your jeans? Title is misleading. I need more specific tips on how to fade denim intentionally ie tools, bleaching, etc

Don't like fades, I like the clean solid color jeans

I don't think it's a stretch to say you can go long periods of time between washes if you're not doing anything rigorous in them. If your crotch gets super nasty in cold/cool climates, you probably got something else going on... 😔😔😔

WOOOOOWWWW Du är Bäst

at the levi store in the 80s they had product you could add to the wash to do this. while that isn't pure, it is also not nasty. wash your paints nasty asses.

3 months between washing?!!...bogging!

He’s right. You are the best gay KZfaqr

Bruh... how can you not wash your pants for 3 months? Yikes. I wash my jeans every 1-2 weeks.

If you want to fade your jeans , go ride a horse for a fortnight. That'll do it.

To make this video without talking about starching is a hard L

3 months with no washing? 🤢

The Depaaaaaarted interview.. Yikes.

Never wash jeans if you also want to get that sewer odor. 😂

i wash my jeans every wear.

That’s gross.

I mean I get it but then I don't get it. I wash my jeans about every 4-5 wears. Granted I don't own any raw denim selvage jeans because I'm not spending $200+ on a pair of jeans (that money is allocated to shoes lol). I'd imagine if you're only washing your jeans 3 times a year they would start getting pretty funky, people fart, they have stinky asses. After not washing your jeans for 3 months you probably won't notice your jeans smell like ass but I'm sure other people do.

Oof bleaching denim... sounds like a cheater

You must stink, two weeks is the max. Bacteria is not necessarily what smells

Why you keep making videos of n&f denim. Their jeans r garbage. You got sucker in to this just to get paid.