front of my jeans! these are based off of the ruester cogburns "select smith and wesson" design, but slightly modified. the major design thrust of these pants was creating my own pair of selvage denim jeans. when purchased in a store, selvaged jeans run from $300-400 (based on quality of denim, quality of indigo dye, and whether they were imported from the land of milk, honey and selvage denim: japan).
front inside detail. i used the patch design from bryce's pair as the inside branding patch -- nice, bold, and iconic and without any kind of model identification. also added some tags indicating size and a little secondary logo featuring an "r", "c" and some vestigial umlauts. the pocket bags were simple white cotton, which i imagine will turn a baby blue upon first washing.
front change pocket detail. the rivets on this pair were much better, thanks to my finding a rivet-clamp for application. a lesson learned: never hammer-in anything, ever.
back view. mmmm, there's that exposed selvage on the outseam of the cuffs. so hot right now.
sweet, sexy selvaged outseam. what is selvage you ask? well, it's the...meh, i'll let wikipedia handle it. sadly, this isn't true selvage denim, as indicated by the extraneous fraying on one side of the selvage line -- true selvaged denim is woven on a shuttle-loom which eliminates those frays with tighter locking threads (the red threads here). the tricky part of the pants (and what makes them so expensive) is that each leg must be straight, to run along the selvage line of the fabric. this leaves about 4/5 of the width of your fabric bolt unused (unless you're using all that fabric to make a 2nd pair of non-selvaged jeans for your buddy in san diego)
back/side view. leather patch detail, indicating "ruester cogburns' six shooters: select selvage denim." the 6-shooting refers to the hip embroidery, which features a grouping of 6 slash marks (in 1. 2. 3. 4. slash=5. then, 6.) in a "shoot-from-the hip" style. back pockets are "x" top-stitched.
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OOOO Process!
Thanks for the lesson on selvages (first impression ='salvage'??) Ha, such a philistine :P
ah there's few color combos i love more than the ol red/orange and denim blue, and all those details look oh-so-pro. B is a lucky dude and that leather logo is darned catchy and oh so californian-frontiersman-like. So apropos for the target audience, your style, and your geographic locale
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