Dear Utah,
I appreciate your scenery and amazing mountains. But Im not sure if i would raise a family here, unless i was ridiculously rich and lived above wasatch boulevard in a mansion, then yes, I would raise a family here. psych, thats a lie. I dunno i like utah but sometimes i really cant stand it (the people mostly). But if you know me, you know im just being a sensative little bitch! And thats what ill do, bitch and moan. So just disregard my feelings. isnt that what everybody wants?
love,
Nate
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
It's my birthday
Yes, it is my birthday. Been about a month since my last post. I said I was going to upload pictures of the jeans...well I didnt like the way they fit so I abandoned them! Hopefully I'll find some better ones that fit.
So I turned 18 today! Woo hoo! Well, I guess thats pretty exciting right? Yeah. I've been alive for 18 crazy years. Most of those years were spent and are currently being spent, annoying people, entertaining people and just being me. If you have had the pleasure to meet me, you get it. What have I done to help this world in those past 17 years? anything? does it really matter? probably not, because i cant remember anything, but im sure i have somehow. That bugs me, what have i done to help this WORLD. Its impossible to help THE WORLD, sure, you can help a few people, sometimes a lot of people, but the whole world? No. Im not saying give up, but lets start with the man in the mirror. Cliche? Yes. Ineffective? No. By simply trying to improve ourselves we can help people around us, out friends, family, you get it. Im being pretty hypocritical right now, but at least my intentions are good, right?
Well heres to the next 18 years!!!
Go me!
-Nate
So I turned 18 today! Woo hoo! Well, I guess thats pretty exciting right? Yeah. I've been alive for 18 crazy years. Most of those years were spent and are currently being spent, annoying people, entertaining people and just being me. If you have had the pleasure to meet me, you get it. What have I done to help this world in those past 17 years? anything? does it really matter? probably not, because i cant remember anything, but im sure i have somehow. That bugs me, what have i done to help this WORLD. Its impossible to help THE WORLD, sure, you can help a few people, sometimes a lot of people, but the whole world? No. Im not saying give up, but lets start with the man in the mirror. Cliche? Yes. Ineffective? No. By simply trying to improve ourselves we can help people around us, out friends, family, you get it. Im being pretty hypocritical right now, but at least my intentions are good, right?
Well heres to the next 18 years!!!
Go me!
-Nate
Sunday, August 24, 2008
My First Selvedge Jeans
So I have been in the search for some selvedge denim. I discovered selvedge denim earlier this year and since then I have been on the prowl. Come to find out, selvedge denim is particularly pricy ($135-200+) so my hopes and dreams of finally owning a pair of perfect selvedge jeans seemed out of reach. This summer my family and I made a pilgrimage of sorts to the state of New York. We participated and acted in the Hill Cumorah Pageant. Later on, we ventured off to Maine (which is beautiful), Boston (Boston is the oldest city in the USA, or it appeared so), then eventually to The Big Apple. By this time ChaCha and I had developed a pretty close relationship, probably because I would get extremely bored on the road and ask them very random questions. One question in fact led me to my first encounter with selvedge denim. I asked ChaCha if there were any distributors of Nudie Jeans (the first brand I stumbled upon that produces selvedge jeans) they said there were and gave me an address of a place called Barney's Coop in NYC. So I made it a point that I would visit this Barney's place and locate me some denim. The last day in NYC I finally made it to my destination. They had plenty pairs of selvedge jeans (APC, Naked and Famous, and Nudies) I liked a pair of the APC's but they were about $155. Consequently my mother told me if I purchased these jeans, she and my father would never loan me another penny again, and that I would be walking back to the hotel in Jersey. Disheartened, I left the store without saying goodbye to the helpful worker, I was terribly ashamed that my one chance of owning selvedge was blown. On the bright side, I still had money, so I bought a shirt.
Later on back in SLC...
I found out that Andrew Reynold's new company, Altamont, was manufacturing raw selvedge denim for about half the price that they usually go for. Excited, I started the search here in Salt lake. BC had a pair but they didn't fit all that well. I went to other local shops but no one had any. I had given up. (Actually not really, just for a little bit.) I was recently school shopping with some friends downtown at the Gateway and the Quicksilver store had some Quicksilver "Selvage" denim. Their denim was washed before hand though, destroying the beauty of raw selvedge denim. They were priced at $90. My last stop, Urban Outfitters. I was rummaging through the clearance rack when I found them, a pair of Japanese raw selvedge denim. And guess how much they were....$20!!!!! I couldn't believe what I had found. I immediately ran to the dressing room, tried them on, then purchased them. I honestly didn't care how they fit, they were only $20, I was buying them no matter what.
So I finally got my hands on some good thick, raw, selvedge denim. Im posting some pictures of them now, new and raw. Over the months I will be posting pictures of how they're turning out.
(You're not supposed to wash the jeans for about 6 months so they fade and form to your body, its beautiful.)
Here's an example: http://rawselvedge.com/
check out the photos
Later on back in SLC...
I found out that Andrew Reynold's new company, Altamont, was manufacturing raw selvedge denim for about half the price that they usually go for. Excited, I started the search here in Salt lake. BC had a pair but they didn't fit all that well. I went to other local shops but no one had any. I had given up. (Actually not really, just for a little bit.) I was recently school shopping with some friends downtown at the Gateway and the Quicksilver store had some Quicksilver "Selvage" denim. Their denim was washed before hand though, destroying the beauty of raw selvedge denim. They were priced at $90. My last stop, Urban Outfitters. I was rummaging through the clearance rack when I found them, a pair of Japanese raw selvedge denim. And guess how much they were....$20!!!!! I couldn't believe what I had found. I immediately ran to the dressing room, tried them on, then purchased them. I honestly didn't care how they fit, they were only $20, I was buying them no matter what.
So I finally got my hands on some good thick, raw, selvedge denim. Im posting some pictures of them now, new and raw. Over the months I will be posting pictures of how they're turning out.
(You're not supposed to wash the jeans for about 6 months so they fade and form to your body, its beautiful.)
Here's an example: http://rawselvedge.com/
check out the photos
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