Denim's Things #25 - 7 cool ways to wear jeans

Fashion | Denim's Things |#25 7 cool ways to wear jeans

7 cool ways to wear jeans tips

 Denim fashion now become popular again. And there are variety of denim model so you can mix match on your collection. Although everyone have jeans or at least has one model in jacket or vest, but not everyone know how to look good with their denim. Try follow this tips to make sure your collection more lasting without depending on the trend fashion.

1. Follow the rules of thigh
This ways is to make your look more slim, first is you have to find the widest part of your thigh, then look straight pant from thigh to the bottom. If you had average size of thigh, bootcut jeans can be your option. If you had big thigh, long and more wider jeans can fit for you. If you have a slim feet, skinny jeans can be your best friend

2. Make sure the length
Own a jeans which can be wear when you using flat shoes, and other jeans when you're using high heels. The maximum of your jeans length is 1 cm above the ground. If more short than that, your jeans will looks not good.

3. Wear white denims
different shape of your jeans will affirm your bodyline. So make sure you wearing a model jeans that fit with your bodyline. If your butt is full like Jennifer Lopes, then you can wear bootcut jeans with wider on the bottom part this will make your leg look more long. Denim with straight model and simple design in back pocket can be an option too. If you had body like the sand watch shape, you can uses jeans with stretch material that will fit in your waist. Overall if you want to look more slim, you can use skinny jeans or bootcut jeans.


4. Don't Wash To much
Except you spoil something to your jeans or you find a dirty spot in your jeans, you don't need to washing jeans everytime you have used it. Washing will make your jeans fading, losing it's shape, and more worn faster. When your washing your jeans, you must turned the inside out the jeans



5. "Denim on denim"
Combine denim with denim, for example : jeans shirt with jeans, now is more tolerable. But you should combine denim with other different color tone. Example, don't combine white denim with white jeans, or black jeans with black or bright with bright and soon. Your performance looks will look more heavier

6. Experiment with color
If you dare and love of change you must try jeans with red color, yellow, or even green

7. Recycle into short
Bored with one of your jeans? or on the feet jeans has been torn? Just cut your jeans and transform into short. The trick is wear your jeans, then tagging it where you want to cut it, put your jeans to floor then start cutting with same line for the two legs.

7 cool ways to wear jeans just for you

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Denim's Things #17 5 way to keep your jeans save

Fashion | Denim's Things |#17 5 way to keep your jeans save

Carl Chiara tips and trick to treat your jeans

It's an annoying situation when your favorite jeans become to worn-out. The color starting to fade, the jeans begin to torn and your jeans not stretching well again.

According to Carl Chiara, Director of Brand Concept in Levi Strauss & Co, This is cause because wrong treatment. Denim should washing with machine every six month. In the rest you simply washing it with hand.

On The Wall Street Journal, Chiara divide trick how to treat jeans like he always do. He usualy fill water (room temperature) to bathtub (15 cm deep), then he add 2 spoon liquid soap. Then he put jeans in flat position into the bathtub. After 20 menit, he hang up the jeans and let the water to dripping until it's dry. So jeans not squeezed or rolled. With this method, the jeans will more lasting then washing with machine every week.

5 way to keep your jeans save

There's another tips or trick to treat jeans from other fashion expert:

1. Pick your jeans with high quality. Material jeans is variety depends on the jeans brand. And not easy to pick jeans that can last over the year and which is not after washing with machine repeatedly. "Check the inside area at the tip of the pants where you can find the stitching in color" Advice from Loren Cronk, the owner of Loren, Jeans store in Brooklyn, New York City. "That is the prove that jeans has been woven on it's edges.

Jeans like this commonly a vintage jeans and usualy more lasting than a jeans that has been made this day. The stuff is more thick and more heavier too.

2. Clean up the stained area first. Jeans is not always to be wash, sometime you only have to clean the stained area to keep the shape of the jeans. Chiara advices to try the glass cleaner to clean difficult stain. You can use hand soap to keep the back area of zipped clean and smell good

3. Turn the inside area of jeans to the outside. To keep the jeans color not to fade, turn the inside of jeans to the outside, Used water with room temperature to wash your jeans. If the jeans color already fading, wash your jeans with other jeans that has stronger color. Other trick, chiara version is to add vinegar in the wash. Vinegar will keep the jeans color.

4. To keep safe your jeans from torn and thin. If your jeans damaged because of washing machine, Dont use this method. Cronk suggest to use environmentally friendly detergent that without whitening. "Washing jeans without soap sometime can clean up the jeans without damaging the jeans"

If you see a hole or torn on jeans, immediatly overcome this problem. You can stitch with soft or patching from the inside. This will prevent torn more wider

5. Keep the original shape. This thing is the most damaging the shape of your jeans, when you dry your jeans in drying machine.  If you want to dry your jeans in it, make sure to set the machine in low setting.

Moving a jeans in moist condition and immediatly hang it up until dry is the most suggested. This will keep the jeans from wrinkled, shrink, and keep the original shape of your jeans. When the jeans is perfectly dry, hang up the jeans in the closet (never fold your jeans)

For jeans with stretch material, use the opposite method. put the jeans to the drying maching more longer time, this will keep the flexibility your jeans. But never to put your jeans in long time at drying machine.

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Denim's Things #16 How to treat your dry denim

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 How to treat your dry denim

Imagine if your denim or jeans not been washed for six month just because you want to get the natural unique in your jeans or denims. All dirt and sweat will stick to your jeans or denim. Is there a trick to treat jeans without washing it?

"First time i used dry denim, i directly used short pants before using jeans or dry denim, so it will not directly touch the skin. And to prevent the bad smell, i always dry it on the sun or wind. After 3.5 month there's nothing like bad smell or itchy effect on my skin" Said Diah Young women designer who join the dry denim challenge.

Diah thinks that dry denim will looking good if using a non stretch material. Because, the changed on the pants will more seen then a jeans that using a stretch material

"When i used dry denim, if my denim look dirty, i just waggle it with wind" Said Andre Yudhistira Director of Indigo Soul in Art Denim Laundry. Andre become a judge in Dry Denim Lee Cooper Challenge.

Washing Trick

For washing your jeans, Lee Cooper have a trick that jeans fans usualy doing it

Use your jeans 6 month minimum every day. Six month is the ideal time to get natural worn out effect. If you not stand to not wash it during six month, you can wash it.

• Wash your jeans with washing machine in 30 degree celcius without using soap or washing powder.
• Use for next 3 month.
• Then wash again with machine in 30 degree Celcius. High temperature can make the color more fading.
• Dry the jeans by waggle in shady place, never dry your jeans directly under the sunlight.

But if you want to wash your jeans everyday, try this technique

• wash it on machine with 30 degree celcius.
• Dry it by hanging your jeans under the sunlight. This way will make your jeans or denim shrink about 2.5 - 6 cm, but your jeans will not feel stiff like after being starched.

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Denim's Things #15 Dare to Try Dry Denim Trend?

Fashion | Denim's Things |#15 Dare to Try Dry Denim Trend?

Dry Denim Trend

How long do you usualy wash your jeans? Right after you used it? or once in a week? or month?

If you ask to the jeans expert, when you wash your jeans or denim every day it will make your denim or jeans color quickly to fade away. in fact, lot of jeans expert suggest to wash jeans every six month.

You must be not believe, there's people who washed their jeans only once in six month

Nowadays, lot of people used this care method for jeans or denims. Denims will not been washed since the first they bought it, then the color and the shapes are allowed to be fade and loose in naturaly way because frequently usage. This method will show the real character of the jeans user.




But not all kind of jeans can be treated like that. You have to choose a jeans with classic material denim which is more thicker and stiffer. Jeans with this material is known as dry denim or raw denim, is made from material without washing process. It's different for nowadays model, which given artificial old effect, washing, and torn effect



The first time you use dry denim will feel a bit stiffer. But after frequent use, will more softer and adapted to your bodyline. Usualy there will show wrinkled fold in hip area, back of your knees or in hand fold area (usualy in jeans jacket). For some people, will show up shapes like wallet shape on back of pocket, it's because they usualy store their wallet in that area.

"This will show the characteristic and the original of the jeans. If the jeans got dirty, that's is the art of the jeans. you can say that this is your jeans" Said Jody Dhamawan, President Director Lee Cooper Indonesian, at Program launch Lee Cooper Dry Denim Challenge in MU Cafe, Jakarta.

This fold is seen as the unique part of the jeans. No need to worry to the torn part of the jeans. Jeans is made to be the worker outfit.

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Denim's Things #14 Casual Day with Jeans

Fashion | Denim's Things |#14 Casual Day with Jeans

Casual Model Using a Jeans

Denim material or jean is common to be basic material of pants and has known since 18 century. Jeans never look old and still popular until know. Not only using in campus or ordinary day but worker seen used jeans in company when casual day. If you are the one of jeans lover, try to find a model that suit to your bodyline.

Histroy of Jeans

In the beginning 1873, Levi Strauss create a pants in denim material, people tend to call it jeans, jeans is known as the blue collar pants, worker in the farm have trouble with their pants because of bush or tree, their pants is easy to torn, then Levi Strauss has an idea to create pants with more thick so not easy to torn apart.


then the Levis brand is show up, continued with other brand such as Lee and Wrangler

Jeans begin to popular in teenager in early of 1950. In that time there's a lot of brand or jean material. Beside of that, jeans is made in various color and denim material, from classic blue as known as blue jeans, up to other color such as in black, brown even white.
 
The origin jeans is from Genoa city Italy where is cotton fabric made. Genoa or often spelled into "Jene" in english.

Jeans Model

Wearing a jeans will make the user looks more casual.
There's a various jeans model that you can pick to support your looks. The right jeans will make your looks more interesting.

Straight Cut Jeans

This jeans is suitable for people who had problem with their body height because this model will make your leg looks more taller. This jeans also give impression more slim for  you who had chubby body

Skinny Jeans

If you have tiny body, you should pick this jeans, because the effect of this jeans is make your body more big

Boot Cut Jeans

This jeans is suitable to all body shape

Classic Cut Jeans

This jeans as known as baggy model. Suitable to people who had tiny body

Flare Jeans

This jeans is very good for people who taller and slim body

Jeans: Do & Don't

There's a things that should be your attention when choosing a jeans. Always notice the situation that you will encounter when you choose to wear a jeans

DO: use jeans on casual event or if you in cold or hot environment, jeans is be a better choice. Other companies is allow the worker using a jeans on their outfit on casual day.

Don't: Never using jeans in formal event. Avoid jeans when meet people who had higher position and never using a jeans when job interview

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Denim's Things #13 Type of Jeans

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Type of jeans that you should know

1. Straight Cut Jeans

Straight cut type jeans is a jeans which its circle size from waist to the bottom have a vertical shape down to the leg. This Type of jeans usualy used by women or men with slim body shape. Straight cut jeans is one of the classic type of jeans and its still popular until now.

2. Flare Cut Jeans

Flare cut, this type of jeans usualy used by men because the cut shape is narrow in the hip and the groin but a bit wide in the bottom jeans, its show the sexy effect for a man who used it.

3. Boot Cut Jeans

Boot Cut is type of jeans thats look like a flare cut model but the size more tight in the knees, Women who love using high heels is suit with this type of jeans because this type of jeans is tend to be more comfort when been used and can hide the wrinkle effect of the jeans.

4. Bell Bottom

Bell Bottom Jeans had popular in Indonesia In '70. In Indonesia its been known as the cutbray pants. Benyamin Sueb who is comedian in lot of movie usualy used this Bell Bottom jeans. Its match for you who has big body or big belly because the cut have wide in the bottom of the jeans. Not recommended to people who has slim body because its will make you weird look.

 

5.Skinny Jeans

Skinny Jeans has known as the pencil pants because the shape is tend to be shrink from up to bottom. Its suit for a men or women who had slim leg. Skinny jeans still popular and becoming a fashion trend usualy for teenager

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Denim's Things #12 Shrinking denim

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Why we have to shrinking denim?

It's because the basic material of the jeans are usualy made from cotton, just like the others clothes in general. Cotton when meet water will always shrink and can expand if stretched.

Through the process of sanforized, the shrinking process of jeans can be minimalized up to 1%. So for jeans that has been sanforized process, generally shinkring process not needed again.



But for unsaforized denim, the shrinking process still can happen so it can change the size of the jeans. The unsaforized jeans usualy put on the water before being used.

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Denim's Things #7 Raw/Dry denim

Fashion | Denim's Things |#7 Raw/Dry Denim

Raw/Dry Denim Treatment

 

Raw/Dry Denim is a denim material before getting a post-treatment. In this case, they sell immediately the newly made denim. The different between raw material and not raw is the raw material tend to be more hard and more darker color. Usually each jeans vendor give more info whether raw material or not.





The unique of raw/dry denim is dye color will fade along with frequently of use. And the natural fade effect will become attract for the afficianado Denim. Not like prewashed denim which is the fade effect made by artificial with machine and chemical, raw denim will creating fade effect fit to the body line and the activity of the user. To facilitate this process, usually raw denim seldom to wash (generaly after 6 month effective use then they washed it)

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