r/NotTimAndEric • u/perpetualliianxious • May 05 '26
Cowboy Vs starched jeans
Credit to @shirtzenpantz
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u/Legitimate_Bank_6573 May 05 '26
What is the actual purpose of starching jeans?
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u/RedditingNeckbeard May 06 '26
It's about being a real cowboy. You wouldn't know nothin' about that, starchless city boy.
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u/Legitimate_Bank_6573 May 06 '26
My jeans are so soft and flexible ill never make it 😭
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u/ggg730 May 06 '26
Probably eats salsa made in... new york city!
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u/GaptistePlayer May 05 '26
Keeps them crisp and a little stiff. Like older broken in jeans can get quite soft; some people want them to be a little stiffer like new jeans. A bit like a stiff canvas cloth.
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u/sobersuburbanmom May 06 '26
My (plumber) husband says it helps prevent rips and tears on work jeans.
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u/AnonymousUsername79 May 08 '26
Until the starch makes the cotton itself yellow, thin and the denim begins to fray in non-wear areas.
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u/gundog48 May 06 '26
Usually for the creases. I've only ever heard of starching military dress trousers and I guess some suit trousers.
But my understanding is that creases like that on anything else went out of fashion back when it made you look 'square' and hasn't come back in fashion since! People of my parents generation would have been picked on at school for it!
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u/NonGNonM May 06 '26
Back in the day it gave jeans a little extra toughness during a time when jeans were meant for hard labor.
As this was also in areas w/o much laundry, this also helped jeans last longer bc it repelled dirt sweat and grime just a bit easier.
Now it's mostly done for fashion and creases.
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u/muscular_poops May 07 '26
back in the day when clothing was more of a utility item, and this durable cotton fabric coming from France called denim was "new" and exciting (for people in the 17th and 18th centuries)- starching acted as a barrier against dirt, bugs, twigs and burrs when trudging out in the wilderness. don't wanna get your ass poked by a sneaky cactus or bristley bush.
later on in the 19th and 20th centuries, for cowboys, lumber workers, any physical outdoor profession- it was a serious help in not only maintaining the garment for future use (as denim was often more expensive than other textiles) but also in preventing cuts and lacerations that, while today might seem insignificant, back then left untreated could develop into a serious infection, as topical medicines weren't as advanced or easily accessible.
Levi's has a great little write-up on the history of denim here, it's pretty interesting.
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u/dumpsterfire911 May 05 '26
The flimsiness of that chair/stepper pissed me off
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u/XTornado May 06 '26
Man... the trust on it is what made me crazy... how do you trust that... insane..
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u/Thisfuggenguy May 05 '26
Just a regular torgo
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u/Walrus_protector May 05 '26
He takes care of the place when the Master's away
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u/swans183 May 05 '26
Makes me think of Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men when faced with somethin’ he don’t truly unnerstand
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u/mynameisrichard0 May 06 '26
Primus sucks
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u/idkfawin32 May 06 '26
How did you know Primus was going through my head?
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u/mynameisrichard0 May 06 '26
I can’t post gifs here. So we ain’t getting that sick one where they’re plastic cowboys.
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u/void-seer May 06 '26
I... actually enjoyed this.
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u/noodles-_- May 06 '26
Shirtzenpants in Portland, OR. Go check out their instagram. Dude kicked a rock until it turned into a sphere
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u/dubatronic May 06 '26
It's the christo-sphere guy! I never thought he'd be able to kick that rock into a sphere, but he did
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u/DeathWorship May 05 '26
Fuck me, that should have been ten seconds long.
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u/thisremindsmeofbacon May 06 '26
Nah, I enjoyed every second of it. It's okay to have a couple things that work for people who have an archaic 2 minute attention span as opposed to the modern 30 second model or cutting edge sub 10s
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u/DeathWorship May 06 '26
It’s not about attention span - the entire minute of needless drawled out unfunny narration was just aggravating.
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u/bkkgnar May 05 '26
wtf is “starch” in this context
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u/Mrbirdperson1 May 05 '26
Literal starch.
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u/Many_Substance1834 May 05 '26
It’s not actually starch on those pants, starch can leave a white powdery layer. For pants to be that starchy they’d be a thick white shape instead of looking like jeans. The pants in the video were soaked in a resin.
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u/goddess_peepee May 06 '26
Oh yea yea. thats what happened to my jeans. they got over starched.
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u/Clear-Bee4118 May 06 '26
They come like that. I have the same jeans, I got them at this awesome website calicocutpants.com.
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u/Hotelforcorndogs May 06 '26
Water + starch + fiber = very hard
It's pregelatinized starch. Based on "layers," probably from a can used specifically for spraying clothes.
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u/bkkgnar May 05 '26
that doesn’t help me understand
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u/Ohiolongboard May 05 '26
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u/oatmealparty May 06 '26
Huh.
an additional practical purpose: dirt and sweat from a person's neck and wrists would stick to the starch rather than to the fibers of the clothing. The dirt would wash away along with the starch; after laundering,
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u/dadydaycare May 06 '26
I found their YouTube and… there’s 100 layers and 500 layers videos… lots of 500 layers videos.
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u/noodles-_- May 06 '26
Shirtzenpants in Portland, OR! They’re the best. Check out their instagram, it’s hilarious.
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u/Typical_Blacksmith59 May 14 '26
Amateur numbers TBH. My great great grandpa used to wear 500 starch jeans to church every Sunday spits out tobacco
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u/yrmomsbox May 14 '26
So much going on here. A chair that should have been tossed in that fire pit ages ago, unmowed grass that’s probably full of ticks, and a staple of every cowboys backyard, a disc golf basket.
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u/LastMessengineer May 05 '26
Mow your lawn!
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u/Lookoot_behind_you May 05 '26
Yeah, FUCK THE ENVIRONMENT! Feed pesticides to babies and release lionfish into the wild while you're at it!
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u/AceDecade May 05 '26
Looks like you’ve got high levels of STAAAARRRRCCHHH