what japanese denm jeans do you own uk2004? i have 2 pairs of sugar canes and 1 pair of edwin.
from what i can see people have been talking about how the argument for the uniqueness of most japanese denim is questionable. the argument appears to pin on the old shuttle looms producing unique characterisctics within the weaver as opposed to the new shuttle looms which do not. as people have pointed out there are not enough remaining old shuttle looms to produce all the japanese selvedge denim on the market so on this basis there appears an inconsistancy, which i would tend to agree with.
i think its very easy to get anal about denim for certain mind-sets (i might fall into that category
) but we mustn't forget that there are a lot of unscruplous marketeers who are looking to take advantage by injecting misleading information and ambiguity to try to sell more and i think that's what people hear have been questioning.