Cameland

Well I’ll make this quick, many many months ago there were ideas being thrown about on mynudies.com about having a contest. Not just any regular contest but a year long contest for 30~ people around the world to wear the same pair of jeans to see who could produce the most beautiful fade at the contests end. So everyone got together trying to come up with a brand and cut that everyone would like and want to wear for a year non stop. Heaps of stuff was discussed but in the end the decided brand and cut would be the Skull 5010xx (raw) by Fabfour Japan.

After we had decided there came the problems of getting 30 pairs of jeans to people from japan, so we asked around at one of the US distributors to see if they could give us some kind of “deal” if we bought a large number of pairs at once. We managed to get a deal from Blue In Green SOHO but when I looked over the price I realised it would actually still be cheaper to get it straight from Japan instead. So I took it upon myself to contact Fabfour myself, got a very positive reply from their rep Shinichi-san. He said he would be happy for us to use Skulls jeans in the contest and that he would try to create a “limited” contest model with a special certificate and prizes.

Anywho after many many emails back and forth between Shinichi-san and myself things were sorted and ready to start. The date it would start is actually Today, the 1st of Sept. Except I don’t have my jeans yet due to some stock problems….so I will be a bit behind.

So anyway the jeans have a special “skull jeans contest” patch, with our names imprinted with our special lot numbers on the inside of the pocket bags, entry certificates of all contestants have also been prepared. The prize for the winner is a Skull Denim banner, which is huge and comes in a wooden box with Japanese writing over the front of it.

Well as the date stands there were around 38 people originally signed up to compete but a few dropped off. The contest thread can be viewed Here

The blog that Skull created for the contest can be viewed Here

Overall, I’m happy that its even gotten off the ground and that so many people wanted to participate, seems so long ago that I started sending those first emails to Fabfour and now its finally begun. Especially with me organising it, I have no idea how it went so smoothly. Thanks to all those who helped put it together!

EDIT: Thank you Bobbejaan for letting me use your picture