New Jeans Damage

[Donahue Granados]

Ibought a nice pair of pants to wear to work, and I am reasonably certain they were of good quality (although maybe I was mistaken) and I found that the seat of the pants was worn down to holes in less than a year of near-daily commuting. I commute by bike to my workplace and I don't bother changing because it's a leisurely 15 minute ride and I don't work up a sweat, even when wearing business-casual attire. I of course use the bike to go elsewhere but it is the same in that I don't "ride hard", so to speak.

I'm just wondering if anybody else has had experience with pants becoming worn out in the seat due to only light riding, and with an undamaged seat, because it will make me more hesitant to wear work clothes on the bike in the future.

Absolutely. The thicker your thighs, the more friction, and the quicker the pants loose their thread. This happens relatively irrespective of material, even jeans can wear through rather quickly. I guess that specialized bike wear uses materials that are much less prone to this, but I have not tested that myself.

Of course, saddles with sharp edges do contribute to the wear. Yet, one pair of pants in a year is not too bad. I've worn down jeans within two or three months, simply by biking a lot more with them than you do.

It depends. I have had one saddle that wore through pants quickly. It had an embroidered logo. After removing the embroidery (which took quite some effort) I did not have the problem with that saddle either. Sharp edges or cracked surface could have the same effect.

Cycling specific trousers, both lycra and baggy, are made of slippery fabric. The low friction both reduces wear and is more comfortable in the saddle. Baggy cycling trousers are also often made of synthetic materials that dry quicker than cotton.

Absolutely. The seat of my favourite ever pair of trousers was ruined in a single journey, no more than about three miles. There was nothing wrong with my saddle. They were an unusual fabric and I should have guessed they wouldn't take kindly to cycling, but it was late and I had nowhere to change. It still makes me sad to think of them twenty years later.

I had several pair of wool dress pants ruined by a major premium brand of leather saddle: it was the rivets. The leather sank around the rivet heads, and their sharp edges stuck up. I didn't notice until my wife mentioned it. I threw the saddle out and now use an economy vinyl saddle, which has remained smooth and is every bit as comfortable.

In addition to the other issues, if you perspire at all while wearing shorts or trousers, be sure to wash them before wearing them again. Aside from the odor issues, when perspiration dries it leaves salt crystals behind, which are very abrasive.

In my experience biking can destroy many kinds of "normal" pants quite quickly, whatever the saddle. Biking-specific pants are a different story, and decent ones can tolerate thousands of kilometers in the saddle.

That was especially so for my brothers and me. If we were relegated to kitchen or garden chores, we were barefoot, barebacked, and bare headed. If we somehow had finessed a farm job, like raking hay or cultivating soybeans, we added work shoes, socks, T-shirts and a baseball cap.

The main reason for all the legwear was its practicality. Farm work back then was a dirty, scratchy business that often put you on your knees to repair, say, a broken sickle section or tractor tire. Jeans also limited the damage an alfalfa bale could do as you gave it a leg boost to stack it on a rolling hay wagon or in a still, airless barn.

Our blue-jeans only months did give my mother and her sewing machine a well-earned rest from the almost endless task of making school shirts, blouses, skirts and jackets for my brothers, sister, and me. Summer was her no-sew season.

No the bleach will cause a hole over time. I had a new pair in a plastic bag in I haul trailer & bottle of bleach blow it's top & it got into bag & pants has holes here & there all over legs & black shirt.

No. The bleach has permanently removed the coloration and weakened the fabric. If the fibers are not eaten through by the hydrochloric acid and the material is genuine cotton, you COULD overdye with another color or tie dye using dilute bleach but the area will always be susceptible to tearing or breaking and will take the dye differently. You could patch them or age them like the pre-aged/frayed jeans some people wear.

I just had bleach get on my new tee shirt. What I did was add some bleach and water to a spray bottle and spray the shirt to make it look like that's that way it was supposed to be. Then I ran it thru a wash cycle. I am pretty happy with the results..

I would go to the rit dye website and ask them the best way to recolor. Yellow and blue make green so you will have to adjust the formula to get a true blue. Violet negates yellow, so I would try a violet blue first. But ask the pros for their advice....

I've done that too. Sorry. Long term it will be a weak spot, first to fray or rip, so first off I'd say iron on a patch on the back larger than the spot to support it. After that, you can use matching fabric paint (diluted with water worked best for me, then it wasn't crunchy-feeling) and carefully brush it kinda randomly over the spot to cover it. Might take multiple tries to get it right, be patient.

Very much looks like the elastic threads failing, and that's very likely due to washing or tumble drying at too high a temperature. We've had the same with various stretchy jeans. Unless you want to reweave the fabric, it's not fixable I'm afraid.

The diagonal lines you see are not diagonal weave, but an optical illusion that is typical to all kinds of twill weave (wikipedia). Jeans fabric (aka denim) is typically a twill weave. So the stretch lines you see in your trousers are actually along the weft, not diagonal.

The weft yarn is stretching. In contrast to the warp yarn, the weft yarn doesn't have to take much strain during the weaving process. That means that manufacturers can use lower quality material for the weft. If you wash and tumble dry your jeans regularily, that damages individual fibers in the entire garment. When the higher quality warp yarn can withstand more of this damage than the lower quality weft yarn, you get a stripey pattern everywhere the weft stretches due to the damage. If these patterns only appear on trousers of one brand but not on those of another brand, this is the most likely cause.

This fabric has an elastic component that is failing. Denim usually doesn't stretch. To create stretchy jeans, there's a tiny elastic thread woven into the fabric. This elastic thread is so tiny, you'd need a magnifier to even see it, but if it's tightly woven into the fabric, it can withstand a lot of strain. What it cannot withstand is heat, so washing and/or dry tumbling your jeans too hot can break those elastic threads. If these lines only appear on stretchy jeans but not on non-stretchy ones, this is the most probable cause.

Repeated strain. It's a strange coincidence that the stretch marks have the same width and cover several weft threads. Why would several threads in the same area fail instead of an even distribution? Possibly because these areas snag on something or are poked by something that wears them out in this specific pattern. It could happen while you wear them, or maybe in the washing machine or dryer. If these lines appear on all of your jeans, regardless of brand and quality, this is the most likely cause.

Damaged jeans may take the shape of fading, fraying, or even holes. There are major damaged jeans that often appear worn out. People with slim bodies can wear ripped, damaged pants. Meanwhile, distressed jeans may work better for a curvy body type.

Ripped jeans are damaged jeans from the 90s that have strategically placed holes torn into them. It usually involves both knees and one thigh, as well as other combinations with partial patching. The next is major damaged jeans 90s styles that have two huge holes above each knee, the exact opposite of ripped jeans. The purpose of this denim is to create the appearance of a full-blown denim blowout, complete with a growing tear and frayed edges. Damaged jeans 90s look good as part of a casual daytime outfit. Ordinary ripped jeans might work in smart-casual attire.

Stonewash uses pumice stones to achieve faded and damaged jeans for men and women. During the wash cycle, pumice stones abrade the denim, removing the blue color and giving it a worn look. Due to more even abrasion, smaller pumice stones have less fading and less contrast. Second, enzyme washing is a procedure that uses the enzyme to give denim fabric the softness, comfort, shine, and faded appearance that consumers desire. The enzyme may break down fiber structures at a certain pH and temperature. Third, bleach wash uses pumice stones or an oxidative bleaching chemical. Consuming the indigo dye molecules with oxidative bleaching reagents decolors the dark blue tint of denim. Next is a sand wash which uses sandpaper. Before washing, this waterless technique gives damaged jeans for women mild wash patterns and a worn look. The effects might be hardly perceptible or leave a severely distressed impression. Men's damaged jeans get a snow wash by dry tumbling with pumice stones drenched in bleaching chemicals. A stone deposits a chemical on fabric to remove color. Monkey wash refers to a unique color-fading effect that often appears around the thigh and buttocks for men's damaged jeans. The procedure involves spraying denim pants with an oxidizing agent like potassium permanganate.

The doctors from the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, Australia said as the woman walked home her legs were so numb that at one point she tripped and fell and was unable to get up for hours until help arrived. At the hospital, doctors had to cut the jeans off because they were so tight and found that she had severe weakness in her ankles because her leg nerves had been damaged.

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