October 31 will mark the 1 year anniversary of my religious journey to find raw, selvedge denim.  My first pair, APC New Standard, have been with me during an interesting time in my life.  (You can read about them here: http://originalanalog.com/2009/04/apc-jeans/)

I was thoroughly obsessed with APC Jeans for a few months last year before buying them, but I finally took the plunge thanks to the fine folks at Tobi who used live chat to help talk me through buying the right pair and the right fit.

Am I still obsessed?  Fuck yeah.  Opening up a shipping box with a new pair of raw selvedge jeans makes any day of the year like Christmas.  I now know more about jeans than anyone I know, which means that most of the shit that I have coursing through my synapses on a daily basis is mine alone to experience.  My friends think about clothes differently.  They find my search for the perfect shirt silly (btw, Steven Alan single needle shirts are the perfect shirt, with the secret wash oxford from J.Crew attaining a measured second place on my list.)  My desire to break in a stiff, heavy pair of jeans over the course of a year seems down right comical to most.  The fact that I can lose hours pouring over details about the various brands of selvedge denim, the freakishly obsessive denim geeks on Supertalk, and the fact that this type of jean has completely altered my shoe fetish - all of this is lost on everyone I know.  Not surprising really.

So to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of this obsession, I’m going to HEAVILY wear my original pair of APC New Standards for the whole month of October leading up to their first wash on October 31, 2009.  To get the proper break-in, I’m going to suffer through a few new things:

  1. Wallet in my back pocket.  Haven’t done this in years, but I’m going to suffer through it for the next few weeks.
  2. Every other day rotation.  I might try to pull off Friday through Monday.  My wife hates them, so this might be a challenge.
  3. Stairs.  Lots of stairs.  For the month of October I will try to exclusively take the stairs.
When I finally wash them, I’m going to carefully select my method.  Do I sit in the tub?  Do I hand soak?  With or without detergent?  Hang dry or body dry?
It all gets documented here November 1.

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