Inside a denim washing factory: Is one wash bad for good fades?

Hi from Okyama, Japan.

We are making jeans as usual but recently I received so many questions like, When do you start offering the rigids? or Is one wash bad for the beautiful fades.

I know there are many of those who  cherish the shrink-to-fit ritual in a bath tab or in the sea for hardcore denim heads. That being said, I was one of them, to be more precise, I like both rigid and one-wash.

TCB does 99% of the jeans-making in-house but the only outsourced is washing & drying. We have just finished the production of TCB 50's slim so I myself visited the washing factory and requested the washing and the drying yesterday.

It looks wet on the ground but they are not just water but often mixed with some chlorine or chemicals used for the washing. 

Putting the heaps of rigid denim into a cargo

pulling the cargo full of denim

Need to be very careful not to bleach our newly made jeans.

Putting all the jeans into a washer

Jeans will be washed with the jean washing machine by cold water to give a solid shrinkage to each pair. They are all inside out when being washed otherwise some friction might cause irregular fades on the surface. 

Purchase Slip in Japanese saying one wash with cold water

The beautiful fades on TCB 50's slim worn from one-washed state.

Even after the washing,  our jeans have so crisp texture that wrinkles will easily stay to make beautiful whiskers and honeycombs as you wear because the partnered factory for TCB is also a professional at washing. One of the biggest benefits of one washed is that you can choose your size much more easily, which is the key in the best fades after all.

If one wash jeans hesitates you to try on TCB, it's not too bad, I would say!

Thanks for reading.

Ryo from TCB