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Blue States Thunder Rooster Review: Fast Faders From Jakarta
With over 50 wears logged and some seriously chaffed thighs, I feel it's high time I review my Indigo Invitational Y2 competition jeans, the Blue States denim Co. Thunder Roosters. Blue States Denim Co. was the gate-way brand that took us out of the Japanese and...

Kyatlami Denim Review: How I learned to trust my best denim instincts.
Kyatlami Jeans are a fucking trainwreck. I don't say this lightly. You could almost forgive them. You could, for instance, write off their many faults, putting them down to language barriers and inexperience, but here’s the rub: as bad as their product is (and it’s...

30 Day Review: Benzak Denim Developers W-01 Straight Special #2
The Invitational is Underway "Wear a pair of jeans for a whole year," they said. "It will be fun," they said. For right now, let's not focus on who "they" are, but accept that, so far, "they" have been right. The Indigo Invitational is a little more than a month...

Let’s Begin at the Beginning: Female Fader Rachel Richardson
Let's start at the top. My name is Rachel, and I'm a nutrition coach and personal trainer from Boise, Idaho, and yes, I am a female fader. I've spent the last seven years rehabbing and reinventing myself. After a grievous kickball injury, not a joke, evidently, that...

Indigo Invitational Year 2: The Contenders Series, Jason Farley
We are just approaching the 2/3 point of "month one" for the Indigo Invitational. Hopefully, by now, everyone is starting to feel a little more comfortable in their competition pairs, and perhaps even experiencing some of that electric-blue joy that is only...
About Arcuate
Oh no! Another denim/workwear/leather/buy it for life blog.
Make way in a crowded space. There are literally dozens (maybe more) of blogs potentially more qualified than this one.
Perhaps that isn’t fair.
My Co-Author is certainly well experienced and well read on these subjects. So, maybe more accurately, this is is a fair and balanced, honest as fuck denim/workwear/leather/buy it for life blog.