Denimhunters is a digital denim destination. Since 2011, we’ve helped denim lovers make educated buying decisions in the pursuit of timeless and adaptable wardrobes stocked with well-made essentials.
With our Raw Denim guides, The Rebel Essentials, and our Well-Made Essentials, we will help you find the best of raw selvedge jeans, leather boots, denim jackets, heavy flannels, and much more. Start your hunt with the guides below.
RAW SELVEDGE JEANS
Looking for the bar-none best pair of selvedge jeans? You’ve got options. We’ve cut it down to a dozen makers of the best men’s selvedge jeans.
DENIM SHIRTS
A well-faded raw denim shirt is a grail for most denimheads. But it’s tougher to fade than your jeans. Here’re 20 shirts worth the work.
DENIM JACKETS
If you need a jacket that can stand the cold and look great for decades, this buying guide is the perfect place to start your hunt.
Not Getting Any Fades? Try These Fast-Fading Selvedge Jeans
Want raw denim fades without months of heavy wear? These jeans fade faster thanks to smart dyeing, lighter fabric, and forgiving weaves.
Raw and Ready: The Ultimate Selvedge Denim Jacket List
Whether you’re an expert or a first-time fader, you need a made-to-fade raw denim jacket. This list of 20 fade-primed jean jackets will get you started.
Denim and Sashiko Chore Coats That Are Up to the Task
If you haven’t added a chore coat to your collection yet, this list of our favourite denim and sashiko chore coats will get your train engine running.
Omoto Jeans, Thinking About Getting Some? Read This First
Seeing Omoto jeans everywhere? Here’s what actually matters—fits, denims, sizing, and buying notes—before you jump on the Omoto bandwagon.
The Best and Toughest Heavyweight Selvedge Jeans
Heavyweight denim isn’t just fabric—it’s a test of patience, comfort, and commitment. This guide breaks down what makes it special, why it’s worth the struggle, and which brands are doing it best.
Can Your Jeans Do This? Stretching Our Legs in KATO’s Mammoth Selvedge
KATO’s heaviest pair of stretch selvedge denim, the 17.5 oz. Mammoth Selvedge, is forcing us to reconsider our position on stretch denim.
Pocket Rocket: Tellason Coverall Review
In a world of reproductions, Tellason go their own rugged way. Their iconic Coverall Jacket is a stylish and rugged true-blue original.
The Magnificent Seven: Iron Heart’s Best Made-to-Fade Shirts and Jackets
Iron Heart fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to made-to-fade shirts and jackets. These seven well-made pieces should be at the top of your list.
Batter’s Up: Full Count Shirts and Jackets for Redline
Looking for a made-to-fade denim shirt or jacket? Start your hunt with this hand-picked selection of Full Count shirts and jackets.
Cuts Like a Katana: Samurai Jeans Fit Guide
A favourite brand for those seeking fast-fading heavyweights, Samurai Jeans boast some of the hardest and heaviest raws around.
Slice and Dice: Samurai’s Best Made-to-Fade Shirts and Jackets
Experienced faders know that Samurai shirts and jackets fade like nothing else. Here are six made-to-fade and rally-ready Samurai shirts and jackets.
Unsinkable Style: Who Makes the Best N1, Peacoat, and Duffel?
Naval jackets like the peacoat, the N1, and duffel coat offer the best (and most stylish) protection you can find against the elements.
The Best Work Boots and Engineers Money Can Buy
Boots make or break the outfit. If you’re looking for the best heritage boots from the world’s best bootmakers, you’ll find them on this list.
Flannel Roundup: The Best of Heavy and Well-Made Flannels
Up your cold-weather fashion game with one of the best flannels that money can buy. This list guides you to our favourite well-made flannels.
Knit Picking: How Samurai Has Revived Japanese Cotton
Starting with a single pair of $10,000 jeans in 2013, the Samurai Cotton Project is taking Japanese workwear back to basics with a line of sweats, tees, and denims made with Japanese cotton.
The Best Loopwheeled T-Shirts Money Can Buy
The best loopwheeled T-shirts: With expert advice from Thomas, this guide helps you find the perfect high-quality basic for your wardrobe.
Anchors Aweigh! The Best Naval-Inspired Outerwear of 2024
The falling leaves bring with them a host of new serious cool-weather and cold-weather outerwear from some of our favourite rugged brands.
Spring Is Here! Time to Give Your Wardrobe a Refresh?
Spring is here and new deliveries are landing. Discover fresh drops from Omoto, SOSO, Iron Heart, Gustin, Edwin and more brands and retailers.
You Don’t Need (More) Jeans, You Need to Build a Wardrobe
A new guide to 10 menswear classics, Kato’s 17 oz. slub denim, SOSO’s 33 oz. left-hand twill, and updated spring menswear sales.
10 Menswear Classics That Will Never Go Out of Style
Fashions change, but some pieces refuse to be moved. These 10 rustproof and rugged classics will never go out of style.
Got the Jeans, Tees, and Boots? Here’s What to Invest In Next
In this DH Weekly from Denimhunters: A new timeless menswear guide (out soon), expanded jeans buying guides, and a European brand opportunity.
Bootcut Jeans: Time to Reconsider the Flare?
A quick guide to bootcut jeans, Redcast x Momotaro’s Kakishibu “Wabi-Sabi” collab, and a European denim brand seeking new ownership.
You Probably Didn’t Expect This Heavyweight Brand in Stores
SOSOBROTHERS partners with Cultizm, plus an interview with the costume designer of Train Dreams, Bluezone SS27, and an updated sweater guide.
Show Recap: Pleasure in Progress at Bluezone SS27
From trend zones to traffic flow, here’s what stood out at Bluezone’s SS27 edition—and what to watch ahead of July’s earlier summer show.
Big-Screen Workwear: Train Dreams and Its Period Costumes
Train Dreams captures historic, rugged American workwear in vivid colour. We sat down with the film’s Oscar-nominated costume designer.
How To Repair Your Jeans and Why You Should!
This article is the last in the series about buying jeans. Learn how you can extend the time you can enjoy your jeans, save money, and lower your environmental footprint. All by repairing your jeans!
How to Wash Raw Denim (and Every Other Kind of Jeans)
How we wash our jeans sometimes feels like a complicated form of art. If selling jeans is part of your job but don’t provide the right washing guidance, you can get in serious trouble.
The two step-by-step washing guides and the ‘‘3-question tool for better jeans washing guidance’ in this article will help you determine what kind of washing advice your customers need.
3 Popular Raw Denim Care Myths That’re Totally Busted
When it comes to raw denim care, there’s no shortage of false assumptions and myths. In this member resource, I bust three of the most common ones; freezing your jeans, washing them in the ocean, and waiting six months before you wash.
How Denim Is Made: Fabric Finishes
This final episode of my “how denim is made” series discusses how the two kinds of fabric finishes impact the way denim looks and behaves. The trick is to use this knowledge to your advance a make it part of the story you tell.
How Denim Is Made: Weaving
In this fourth episode in the series about how denim is made, you’ll learn how denim is woven and why denimheads prefer shuttle-loomed denim.
How Denim Is Made: Indigo Dyeing
In this third episode in the series about how denim is made, you’ll learn about natural and synthetic indigo, and the differences between rope dyeing and slasher dyeing.
How the Japanese Pioneered Heritage Fashion
In this 4th part of my series about the history of jeans, you’ll learn how the Japanese built a cult around Americana, which evolved into heritage fashion.
An Overview of the Four Eras Jeans History
When you’re selling jeans, you’re selling history! That’s why it’s crucial to know at least the key facts of the history of jeans when you work with denim and jeans. And that’s what this blog post teaches.
How Designer Jeans Broke Through the Mainstream
In this part 2 of my history of jeans overview, you’ll learn how ‘designer jeans’ broke through the mainstream, plus how to tell the story when you’re selling.
The Durable and Practical Defining Features of Jeans
In this first episode of the series about the defining features of jeans, I look at four features that originally served practical purposes, and how those purposes have changed.
Purchasing Power: Labels That Highlight The Pedigree of Your Jeans
When we look for new jeans, there’s much more than the colour and fit to take into consideration. In this article, I’ll be looking specifically at the labels that appear on premium denim, and the semiotic and semantic power that such labels carry.
The Defining Features That Help Us Keep Our Jeans Up
In this free guide, I will look at all of the features that jeans makers use—and have used—to make our jeans fit right, and more importantly, not fall down while you’re wearing them.
The Denim Encyclopedia by Denimhunters is a knowledge base with answers to frequently asked questions about denim and jeans, as well as explanations of how denim and jeans are made.
The Encyclopedia is divided into sections, each with its own homepage where its entries are listed with brief descriptions and links to read more. The Encyclopedia is continuously updated with new entries.
DENIM EXPLAINED
This section of the Encyclopedia is home to everything that relates specifically to the denim fabric. You’ll find answers to all your questions about denim and how it’s made.
JEANS ANATOMY
Many of the features that define blue jeans started as pragmatic solutions to the problems. Here you’ll find answers to questions about the details of jeans and how they’re made.
VOCABULARY
Every business has its own vocabulary. This section lists and explains the most common and frequently used terms from the world and jeans and denim.
A-Z
Here you’ll find all entries of the Denim Encyclopedia in alphabetical order. Each entry is explained briefly – you can read more by clicking the link.
Cuffing is not only a practical way of making your jeans shorter without having to cut and sew, it also looks great.
This guide explains the eight most common ways to cuff your jeans.
If you need to wash your jeans, but you don’t want to change the way they look, wash them by hand.
It’s the most gentle way you can wash your jeans because there is less agitation, which less risk of unwanted creases.
In this section of the Denim Encyclopedia, we investigate and debunk the myths about how to wash raw denim, including not washing for 6 months, ocean washing, dry cleaning and more.
