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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

Marc mndt

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Heavy wool peacoat
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casechopper

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Branded Garments CR.

This jacket took some work to get wearable. I believe it's a 70's model cafe racer jacket. It smelled like it had been in an old man's musty, basement closet for the last 30 years or so. I machine washed gentle in a front loader, then dried it with a blower outdoors, aired it out for a week or so and then gave it a heavy treatment of Lexol. It's still got a touch of the original smell but it's faded enough to be wearable and will hopefully fade completely after a few more weeks.

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El Marro

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I've seen ultra-premium jeans advertised for sale-at high prices- on another forum with words to the effect, "owned 2 years and only washed once." Then I think "bio-hazard.":p Yeah, I just don't get that.
I do wash my selvage denim in the bathtub and air dry them outside because I have bought into that part of the denim hype. I wash them after five or six wears though, or whenever they seem dirty. I prize clean odor-free denim over sick fades any day!
 

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