Loomies Dec '14

Same difference. At least I'm not alone. Both my mom and dad always were well dressed. Mix that with my grandfathers old school 60's style. It rubbed off.

Loomies soaked in Kakishibu after a few days of sun exposure.. color's a lot more apparent now, but may still go for a 2nd dip.

Mattbert, well I don't know. That sounds like a dice roll.

You can do all sorts of medieval shit to control shrinkage/stretch. People stick stuff in the waist to minimize shrinkage and I have seen people clamp their pants to something during soak or stretch them with weights while they're wet to get inseam length back. I have no idea how well all that stuff works. I either throw my unsanforized denim in the water and pray or I wear it in the water if the waist shrinkage looks scary.

On the waist, you can just wear your belt tight to control stretch...inseam too short though....I think if it were me, I'd send them back or sell them. Even if some weird length stretching thing works during soak, you'd have to repeat it every damn time you washed them and freak out if they get wet. Yuck.

Maybe a pair will show up in the stock store with a correct inseam? Sorry man, that sucks. I know the Loomie love is strong and getting jacked up pants isn't fun after a wait.

Problem is, if they end up at less than 35" inseam post-soak then even stacking will be pushing it. More like hanging than stacking.

FTR, my 36Rs from the original run have a 34" inseam.  I don't know what the initial inseam actually was because I am not the original owner, but I do find it odd that they could have shrunk 4" through soaking.  I know that they were soaked by the initial owner at least once, and they were a little large on me when i got them (plus they had someone else's junk in them), so I did a warm machine wash and a hang dry after I got them.  They didn't lose any length in the hot wash, but did shrink laterally.  They are my go-to Gs and fit great.  I got them mid-september and have worn them 70-80% of the time since I got them and haven't washed them since the first wash. 

I guess what I'm telling you is, you might ultimately have a length issue if they sewed up short.  Stretch them lengthwise during drying and hope for the best.

Regarding the waist, I wear either a 33 or 34 slim in G, and I have no problem with the waist stretching out to the original size, so you should be okay there. 

As I've said before, I think there's value on the resale market for a once-soaked, predictably sized pair of loomies, so my advice would be to go for it--soak those suckers, and see what happens.  You could cold soak the legs and hot soak the waist and top-block . . .

Yeah, I suspect I'm not even remotely close to the only one who got a short inseam on his Loomies. It's just that I'm one of a handful of tall, stork-legged guys for whom this is actually a bug rather than bonus feature. Unless you're a fellow member of the longshanks brigade (We few, we happy cranky few...) then I'm guessing most guys were like univibe88 and had no reason to worry about checking the pre-soak inseam.

I think you are absolutely correct about the resale value of post-soak Loomies...depending on the buyer. For me, a newbie to unsanforized denim, the soak 'n shrink experience was a big part of the appeal. But I can definitely see how others might place a higher value on greater certainty regarding the fit.

Got mine today after paying $42 import costs, and am disappointed. Usually get 34", so ordered 36, expecting a 36 waist and 38 leg. Actually got a labelled 36 with 34 waist and 36 leg. If I lived in the US I would send them back.

Not sure whether to just go for it and hope that the shrinkage is less than they say. Anyone have any advice based on their own experience?

Thanks felizuno. So do you think I should do a hot soak whilst wearing them?

Oh, and for people with the "male camel toe" issue with Gustins, I've got something embarrassing to admit: I stuffed a soccer sock down in the bottom of the crotch for an hour or so while they were shrinking and it really helped.

I have never tried this, but see this comment all the time. Same about coffee. I'm not really interested to try, but I am curious why it's such a bad idea?

wdw, I have faith you can still make these work based on my Loomstate experience. I have an actuall 35" waist and my Loomies came to me at 33.5"....yeah...I thought I was doomed. I could button them up pre soak but they were the snuggest of snug. So I said eff it! I grabbed three beers per the @stevekas soaking method, drew a comfortably cold bath, put them on and sat in them while I soaked for 40 mins.

After the soak I layed them on the floor and put a cookie sheet in the top block that measured 17" across and buttoned them up. I let them dry over night. Post soak waist measurement was just under 34 1/4". After wearing for a week or so the waist now measures 35", success!