The Champion

David ended up winning the Nudie contest and it didn't come as a big surprise, really!

Here are his jeans after a warm wash together with another contestant and his jeans.


The prize: Denim Design Labs kit and Nudie Masa. Missin from picture: 1 bottle of Jim Beam.


Bonus pictures!


When you're going to a party you need to make sure you'll arrive there in style. This means "denim, denim, denim".
If you're bringing something to drink, carry it in a denim bag. If it's a better kind of party you need to bring a jacket.
Pictured: late 60's Levi's big E bag, FreeBee type one jacket, Samurai jeans.

Someone decided to bring his old jeans to the party, great call. I want to encourage everybody to always bring
their jeans to all parties!



1967 505, you should be able to tell by now ;)

Nudie Even Steven

My friend David has been wearing a pair of Nudie's new Even Steven jeans for the last four months. He's in Nudie's own contest and I think he has a good chance of winning.

In my opinion the denim used in the Even Steven Dry is the best looking denim that Nudie has, even better than their selvedge denim because of the vertical fading, but it's not very heavy, only 12-12.5oz or so. They don't hold up all that well, but bear in mind that David wears his jeans quite hard, too. The color isn't that deep either, but still, it's a pretty nice pair of jeans.

Here's what David has to say about his jeans:

I've been using my Stevens since November 16th with the exception of about a week. They've gotten wet from below the knee down. That happened when I got into a speedboat that was gonna take us from the island of Koh Maak to the smaller island Koh Wai.

I'm a little dissapointed with the quality of these jeans, mostly because of how quickly the crotch got busted. Of course its not a really heavy denim and it's nice to get such results in such a short period of time but still I'd rather get really deep whiskers and honeycombs over a longer period of time than have a pair of jeans that aren't coloured deep enough.

They've had to put up with the mildest winter ever in Stockholm, many long walks along the beaches of Thailand, about an hour of elephant trekking in the djungle of Koh Chang, exploring the djungle of Koh Wai by foot, a motorbike ride around Koh Maak (about half of the island's roads are paved, the rest is sand and dry mud, it's really dusty) , many long walks along the heavy traffic in Bangkok and of my everyday sweat and body. I passed out in these jeans about five times after a few really wet nights...