ONI just made some of its rarest jeans yet. The “Awa Shoai x Kakishibu” 17oz. Hand-Dyed Relaxed Tapered and Regular Straight Jeans are limited to 163 total pairs worldwide. Thankfully Redcast Heritage picked up a few, so grab your size before they’re gone for good.
These jeans feature repeatedly hand-dyed natural indigo warp yarns and kakishibu (persimmon-dyed) weft yarns in their milling. The process of hand-dying all of the yarns for these jeans is incredibly time-consuming and tedious, but well worth the time and effort when you end up with something so uniquely saturated in traditional Japanese natural dyes that ages unlike anything that came before it. Not only are the yarns hand-dyed, they vary in thickness, so the texture is slubby, original, and one-0f-a-kind.
These critically endangered 5-pocket jeans come in two cuts: Relaxed-tapered and regular-straight. The Relax tapered has a standard top-block and rise with a taper through the leg. The ‘regular straight’ is more of a slim straight in our eyes, but just check out the model shots and the measures over at Redcast to help you find the right fit.
Both pairs come detailed with all the ONI furnishings we know and love — ONI back pocket arcuates, red selvedge ID, metal button fly, and selvedge accent on the coin pocket. The jeans even come with a zippered coin pouch cut from the same ultra-limited 17oz. Awa Shoai x Kakishibu denim.
Available for $649 at Redcast Heritage.
Want to learn about kakishibu and other natural dyes? Check out Beyond Indigo – 5 More Natural Dyes
