Hi, I recently bought a pair of wrangler 13MWZ pants. I bought them a size up as I knew they would shrink when first washed. My question is, how do you wash these jeans the first times? I have only seen conflicting Information online. Thanks for any Help!

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Full Album & apologies for the rambling of a jetlagged man who bought too much denim.

This was a question I've heard probably a dozen times in the last 6-8 months of planning this trip, and the short answer is no. Japan has a different draw for everyone, first and foremost is the culture & history, but then the ancillaries: food, fashion, cars, anime, video games, etc. My personal connection to Japan is fashion (although I do love a Japanese car) and my main focus was to visit as many denim/workwear stores as possible. Along the way, I saw some beautiful temples & castles, visited some great museums, ate a ton of incredible food, and met some really nice people. I also bought a shit ton of clothes.

I've been planning this trip for a year now. When I graduated college in 2018, my parents said they'd take me on a graduation trip somewhere in the US. I chose Pittsburgh and they said "No". I ended up starting a job before graduating, life got in the way, COVID, then my dad suffered a stroke and passed away. A few years later my mom said "Okay, pick anywhere in the world, we'll go". I chose Japan. She admitted she never had much interest in going to Japan, but because of prior circumstance, we booked it. Due to holidays in November & my schedule, I was able to finesse 21 days in Japan. 7 days with my mom, 7 days solo, and 7 days with my girlfriend and friends, including my birthday on the 29th.

My mom and I started in Tokyo, then went to Kyoto together. Then I went to Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagoya, back to Tokyo solo. Girlfriend arrived, went to Kamakura, Hakone, then finished off in Tokyo. I won't go into too much more detail on the full trip, but I will say, make it to Japan somehow. It was everything that had been promised (not like Paris syndrome). Its so easy to get around, so much incredible culture to experience, incredible inexpensive food everywhere. My girlfriend and I are already talking about returning next year.

Now, for the denim portion of the story

Over the last 6 months I put together a google map with denim & adjacent shops. I think at the end I had nearly 90 locations and I probably visited 75% of those. My favorite shops were:

• Samurai Osaka

-Huge selection, staff was super helpful. I could have spent double what I did

• Hinoya Osaka

-Hinoya Ueno is really cool, but its a little stressful. The Osaka location is in a department store and is easier to check stuff out

• Iron Heart Nagoya

-I did not make the trek to Iron Heart Tokyo, but I did go to Osaka and Nagoya. Osaka was cool, but Nagoya had better inventory and the guy there was friendly

• Freewheelers Tokyo

-Freewheelers was a company I wasn't specifically looking for, but stopped in at. After talking to the staff I had to get something. Guy was just really cool, made an effort to talk to me about denim and show some of the cool features on their products

I didn't have any outright bad experiences. I didn't exactly feel welcomed at Kapital, but I expected that going in. My girlfriend and our friends did not enjoy the staff telling them "We have sizes for bigger women" when they were all looking to get pairs of raw denim. In the end, they all found a pair and chalked it up to language barriers.

On that topic: I convinced my girlfriend and three of our friends to jump into the denim world. My girlfriend got a Buzz Rickson WW2 denim jacket, a vintage MiUSA Wrangler 124MJ, and a westerner button up from Hollywood Ranch Market. My buddy got a cool pair of Samurai, his wife found a pair at Japan Blue, and our other friend found a pair at Blue Trick. They were all hesitant going into it, but once they started trying stuff on they caught the bug.

I kind of went into a fugue state and was just buying anything that appealed to me, but I did have a little roadmap I was following. I wanted to get a pair of Iron Hearts, a pair with interesting texture, a reproduction pair, and then some non-denim pants. I think I did pretty well in that regard with the 21oz IHs, Sugar Cane 14oz cotton/fiber blend, and the Vanishing West pair. The camo IHs were an impulse buy, looking back I should have gotten green but the camo is something new for me.

My favorite pick up is probably the Flat Head storm rider. I saw Self Edge post it last week some time and couldn't get it out of my head. I have a wool lined jacket from Okayama Denim that fit like shit but I love the look of, so this is the replacement for that. Our last full day in Japan was my birthday, so we swung into Flat Head in Harajuku and my girlfriend bought it for me as my gift. I am so stoked to wear it, its already comfortable as hell from the get-go and fits me perfectly.

I'll probably wrap this up, since this is just a wall of text. But feel free to ask any questions and judge me for my choices!

WAYFT = What Are You Fading Today?

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Links must be included for released items.

Share what you know is coming out.

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