In college, I had a friend who would regularly put his jeans in the freezer. This wasn’t because he ran warm or because he enjoyed the crunch of a stiff, icy pant leg. It was because they were raw-denim jeans, and according to him, to wash them was to destroy them. Freezing them was a way to kill any germs or bacteria without subjecting them to a Tide cycle — a denimhead sin, in his eyes. I was concerned but also intrigued because the jeans, like everything he wore, were of undeniably high quality. They made the most simple outfit, jeans and a T-shirt , look like high fashion.

In an attempt to finally incorporate the perfect jeans into my personal style, I decided to jump full force into the world of raw and selvage denim, getting the ins and outs straight from the experts and then

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