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This is how a Japanese biker built a loyal following of denimheads unlike any other. Photo: George Downs

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This is how a Japanese biker built a loyal following of denimheads unlike any other.

Why Japanese Denimheads Love Iron Heart’s $500 Jeans

Jeans, they're a simple thing. They're some clothing made out of cotton, but actually, there's hundreds of different types of cotton. There's hundreds of different ways of weaving. There's dozens of different ways of sewing.

Made in Japan was a label that meant cheapness for a very long time, and now suddenly, this is something made with a lot of intelligence, craftsmanship. So if you're someone who loves jeans in a really niche, culty way, you definitely appreciate Japanese denim brands.

I have 6,000 jackets and 8,000 jeans. So over 14,000 items so far. I mean, for me, Iron Heart is something special. It's one of the strongest relationships between a company and the consumer.

These are the Iron Heart 634S denim jeans.

All righty, Iron Heart 634 overdyed, fade check, let's go.

Iron Heart jeans range in price roughly in the region of 290 to 450 US dollars.

We've been extremely successful increasing demand in the West because of attention to detail that Haraki and his team take in making this stuff.

Haraki-san, I mean, the GOAT. He is a real legend, I would say.

Iron Heart is Haraki. I don't think he ever really takes any time off. This brand is his life.

The interesting thing about the United States and Japan is that obviously, we're such hugely different countries, and yet somehow. over the course of the 20th century, we aligned in this really unlikely way to the point where two countries on the opposite side of the world began dressing the same.

The occupation headquarters would be set up in Tokyo.

Blue Jeans really came to Japan for the first time after World War II, and they came in the form of being used as packaging stuffing for things sent from the United States to Japan. And so all this denim scrap was sold into the black markets. So it took on that image of being a little bit of a bad boy kind of pants. After the war, Japan needed to rebuild its industry quite quickly, and so one of the first industries it really invested in was spinning. As they're leaning into craftsmanship, American manufacturers in particular are offshoring everything and really making it about driving profit and giving that profit back to shareholders.

It's funny because now we're so fetishized, like, "Oh, Japanese craftsmanship, Japanese craftsmanship." But they were looking at our craftsmanship before we lost it and they were like, "Look at these amazing clothes and this incredible style from America." At a moment when America was ignoring it and not valuing it and running to the shopping mall, like Japanese buyers prized it and understood it and they kind of taught us to love our own style again.

Haraki-san was really one of the first people in Japan, if not the first person in Japan, not only just to make the heaviest jeans that are possible, there are brands now that make heavier jeans than Iron Heart but to make heavyweight jeans that are also comfortable and enjoyable to wear.

Japan has this incredible history of indigo dye, this very time-intensive, bespoke process of dipping, you know, a few yarns that of natural indigo and twisting them and doing it over and over again. And so they had to, in some ways, create a much worse form of indigo dye in order to replicate American denim because what Levi's was doing was a process called rope dying, where you're putting by these kind of mechanical belts, the yarns in these bats of indigo and pulling them out and going back in and out again. And what that does is it preserves the white center of the yarn. So as you wear it, it scrapes off.

When you wear a pair of indigo jeans, as they evolve, they start to tell the story of your life.

You can see the imprint of which pocket you keep your phone in. You can see the crinkles on your hips from when you sit down.

The reason Japan was able to make such great selvedge denim was because Japan had all these old Toyota looms.

All selvedge denim is woven on old shuttle limbs, and there are only a small number of those remaining in Japan.

So the timeline for production of a pair of jeans is pretty long at the moment. Best case, 12 months, worst case, 24 months. The demand for Japanese selvedge denim in general has grown massively.

One of the things that's happened recently is that the American brands have taken notice of Japanese denim production. And despite the fact that they offshored in the '80s and effectively shut down the American denim-making industry, now they're beginning to muscle into the Japanese mills, and it's becoming more difficult for us to get time in those mills, which pretty ironic really.

Oh God, I don't know how to put this actually. Okay. The Iron Heart Army is a term that I use to describe our rabidly enthusiastic customers. I was a boring corporate person looking for something better to do with my life, and I discovered this very interesting subculture of Japanese denim.

We're up to about 80% of the total Iron Heart sales are international, 20% domestic Japanese. We've been at a point over the last few years where we've been unable to keep up with that demand.

So one of the things I did very early on was start a forum where I told Haraki I was going to make him into a god, which I think embarrassed him a little bit. The Iron Heart Forum is a very clunky, old-fashioned form of social media. Our members often say that it's the nicest place on the web. And this is going to sound really weird, but probably my 10 closest friends are forum members.

For the longest time, fashion was women-coded. And so when men started getting into clothing for the first time, they had to find a way to approach it that was not fashion, it's something different. It's like a hobby. It's closer to opening the hood of a car and finding the carburetor.

Clothing is all about desire. It's constantly weighing my own, like, do I need this? Do I want this? How much of this is about status? How much of this is because everybody else is doing it? Like, once you start really interrogating why you buy what you buy and what you want what you want, it becomes like psychoanalysis all the time. You can't just shop anymore.

My relationship to denim is really crazy. I grew up in a very poor, big family. I myself are so small and weak. I wanted to compensate this with having a strong armor. Denim is for me like a protecting me, making me stronger. We got some clothes donation parcels with two Levi's jeans in this parcel, 1973. And then I was really got infected with raw denim and I'm really crazy about raw denim. There are 1000 boxes. Every box has 26 pair of jeans or 16 denim jackets, or 10 blanket-lined denim jackets. I'm almost every time wearing just jeans, no matter if it's a wedding, a funeral. If people are new in raw denim, then you can compare and find raw denim and you see a regular jeans with non-selvedge. Then you can see a selvedge. This means created by an old shuttle loom. The most difference to a regular jeans against raw denim is the regular jeans are at least pre-washed. In our days, mostly pre-faded, pre-distressed, artificially faded, whatever. So you never have the chance to get the strong fadings because most of the indigo is already gone.

So if you have a great fade, it means you must have worn it for long enough to get the fade and you're dedicated to this pair of pants.

Here are some main elements of fadings. The whiskers is caused from sitting and walking around and the knee fades turns back to the cold honeycombs. You can see from ski touring from the mountain from snow, the snow crust. I have some special secrets to make great fades. Since many decades, I never ever washed my raw denim gear. It's always unwashed. To give you an idea, this is now 1,021 days worn, never washed. So then you can get this crazy fade.

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