El Shaddai
I bought the El Shaddai jeans. I should clarify I bought the El Shaddai jeans, again. Last year I managed to grab Enoch’s model off Yahoo Auctions. Here I am in them looking like I am dying because I had a hideously strong ear infection at the time.
Early this year fueled with NFT money the makers of El Shaddai collaborated again with Edwin to re-release the fabled Jeans of God. Bestowed upon the only living man to travel to heaven and back, Enoch, and God’s faithful right-hand servant Lucifel.
They had the original models of the jeans along with an updated model to celebrate the never-sequel in which Lucifel and Enoch betray God and launch a war against determinism and The Father’s Sole Will. If you beat the recent El Shaddai ports you can read a picture book version of this never-sequel.
I got the updated model, marked as Great War Model, as a play on Levi’s jeans released during World War 2, in America. Japan became obsessed with Levi’s as the world kept advancing in the back-half of the 20th Century. The El Shaddai jeans bear little resemblance to Levi’s WW2 models.
Lucifel’s model features a 11 ounce fabric in a 58% cotton/ 40% Polyester/2% polyeurthan. Both Great War models are dyed to a pale black non-selvedge right hand twill weave that makes it hard to photograph and I assume will give easy sick fades as they are battle hardened through wear. They are a skinny fit.
The hardware features bartacks on the back pockets, a cow-hide leather back patch, propeitary Edwin fly-zipper, and a worn (painted?) laurel leaf donut button fly. There is a carpenter’s loop. Opposite leg features two additonal thigh pockets. The back pockets are more than a hand’s length deep. The left back pocket features a buttoned flap, however it is outside the pocket and purely appearance. The stitching is a unique silver/pale blue that you wouldn’t notice unless you were holding the jeans up to the light. It is quite entrancing to look at up close.
I’ve only managed to wear the jeans once as they arrived after a 7 month wait at the end of October. As a fashion conscious 40 year old man I looked at them thinking, “I don’t know if I have any appropriate shoes for this.” Am I just suppose to just wear Satan’s Jeans?
an additional complication as they are black and are 50% plastic and thus hold a static charge. They attract every single piece of lint and small debris in a circle. Some would call this a feature. It will be a challenge reward when I finally start wearing them.
Then again knowing about expensive denim it is fully possible this charge will go away after 20 wears and 2 washes. We gotta get that far in 2025 though.
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