LR02 ’50s XX TYPE FIVE POCKET DENIM

The LR02 is inspired by the 1950s XX type construction. It is an original fit with high waist and straight leg, and a characteristic rounded form at the hip that gives the LR02 an unstructured and effortless personality. Only 100% cotton thread is used to assemble these jeans, staying true to the original XX type. Due to being more fragile than polyester thread, the thickness of the threads had to be considered carefully for different areas of the jeans, addressing the varying amount of expected wear and tear. Also as a result of the varying thickness of the thread, the forces that these exert on the different parts of the jean during wear and wash ultimately produce the ageing and defects, and the true characteristics of the original XX type. In order to work with 100% cotton thread, the challenge in manufacturing required both special machines that would not break the thread during sewing, and skilled hands capable of calibrating each respective special operation.

Many of the meticulously observed details are subtle and even hidden, but will be instinctually felt and discovered by wearing, like the hidden rivets in the back pockets, the thickness of the bottom chain stitch on the waistband, along with the extra large belt loops, and the leather patch which, wash after wash ages to be deeper in colour and transforms in texture. The final subtle detail is our specially developed steel rivets and buttons, rough and irregular in their surface texture and lettering design, keeping faithful to the original XX. Copper electroplating is the only modern compromise, in order to guard the hardware from oxidation.