I know some folks who could and should be interested of such and opportunity and my best advice is to head to KIKS TYO’s Blog for details, terms and conditions for your chance to win a signature tee from Aya Kiguchi or Kana Tsugihara. Stay tuned for updates on the shirts and KIKS TYO in general.

This particular tee features none-other than Kana Tsugihara in a pair of Easter AF1′s. Oh and if you were wondering what brand I’m talking about, well KIKS TYO of course. This tee is available for pre-orders and in case you’re interested, feel free to drop us a line. Year of the Rabbit, Easter eggs, do the math. Crazy year and only getting better. I mean does a tee get much hotter than this?

I have been quiet for few days now, but sometimes days go by at a speed of light. No doubt.

First off a little crossover to the music department. NDH with your’s truly was present at a Too $hort show in Virgin Oil, Helsinki on Sunday night. Though it might have been a bit tough getting out of bed on Monday morning it was all worth it. Real life Ol’ Skool legend threw hell of a performance. Life is indeed too short, make the best of it.

I guess I could start writing a review of the concert but don’t want to get too much off the tracks. Just take a look at the clip from the link below for one of Short Dog’s classic tracks. If you went to the show or have some more pictures of the show do drop a line.

Life is… Too Short

Back to business, denim that is. Posted thing or two about Vintage denim, its qualities and production phases as well as a little something on the fading of the jeans and all this writing got me thinking of a master plan.

Take a pair of Vintage denim, wear it for six months or maybe a year on daily basis and let y’all know more about how the jeans adapt in your daily life. Now the thing is, I love variety and it’s nice to have different jeans for different occasions, so wearing one pair of jeans only for a long’ish time like 6 months is something I have not thought of until now. But hey, I still think it could be interesting to see in actuality how the jeans (personal vertical fade) look after a period of time such as 6 months to a year.

So after  I got the blueprint on the table I started thinking about what brand and what type of jeans should I put through the acid test. Definately a pair of Vintage Japanese Denim. So in the end it all came to a pair of Momotaro Vintage Label 0901 Classic Straight jeans, it does not get much more Vintage than that, heh.

In the picture you can see the crisp new pair of Japanese denim jeans with the raw indigo dye. But if you pay attention to the small patch of denim hanging along with the tag from the jeans you can see the color of the same denim after number of wears/washes.

The indigo color is very deep blue, almost black in color but after time gets a nice blue color not to forget the vertical fade.

As I mentioned the code of conduct would be to wear and tear the jeans daily and not washing them in the process as this will wash away the indigo. Well I was planning to do this, much to the dislike of my significant other but hey, when you want to do something, do it properly, heh.

Let’s see if I will post an article on the denim freezing at some point. Being that we’re in Finland I could just hang the jeans outside for the night and that’s pretty much the same as throwing them into a freezer. Let’s see how things develop the closer we get to summer.

So kickstarted the process today and will keep posting on the twists and turns of this journey along with the rest of the stuff as often as possible.

There are still few days left of the Momotaro promotion so have a look.

Momotaro – Men

Momotaro – Women

But that’s all for now…

Prosperous day to y’all…