{"id":192208,"date":"2022-10-11T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/?p=192208"},"modified":"2022-10-11T06:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:08:38","slug":"samurai-celebrates-year-tiger-limited-edition-s5000vx17oz-raw-denim-jeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/2022\/10\/samurai-celebrates-year-tiger-limited-edition-s5000vx17oz-raw-denim-jeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Celebrates Year Of The Tiger With Limited Edition S5000VX17OZ Raw Denim Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/tag\/samurai\"><strong>Samurai<\/strong><\/a> 5000VX 17oz-22TR really are the cat&#8217;s bag. Probably because these limited edition jawns commemorate the Year of the Tiger, part of the legendary denim brand&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earthly_Branches\">Twelve Earthly Branches<\/a>&#8221; series, a collection of special jeans produced over the course of a 12-year period. If your Chinese zodiac is the Tiger, better get a pair in order to synergize your earthly spirit with your fits.<\/p>\n<p>The tiger is in the details, with a vibrant yellow pocket bag featuring tiger stripes, a yellow button fly, and a custom Goatskin &#8220;y\u00edn&#8221; leather patch (the earthly branch these jeans were made to represent). Cut from Samurai&#8217;s beautifully fading and brutally durable 17oz. &#8220;<a href=\"\/tag\/zero-denim\">Zero<\/a>&#8221; fabric, these regular straight jeans feature a mid-low <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/2017\/11\/rise-yoke-and-inseam-a-raw-denim-anatomy-and-terminology-overview\/\">rise<\/a> (for the big-bellied among us), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/dictionary\/arcuate-arcs\/\">arcuate<\/a>-less back pockets, copper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/dictionary\/rivet\/\">rivets<\/a>, and they&#8217;ve been rinsed to eliminate any guess work as to how much they&#8217;ll shrink, so you cool cats out there are clear to take these with a snug fit.<\/p><div class=\"related_posts evergreen_funnels\"><h3>Like this? 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Probably because these limited edition jawns commemorate the Year of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":192266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4933],"tags":[252,319,1486,1960,43075,1149,3247,189,771],"acf":{"published_feed_date":"2022-10-11 05:00:56"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.8 (Yoast SEO v21.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Samurai Celebrates Year Of The Tiger With Limited Edition S5000VX17OZ Raw Denim Jeans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This pair of S5000s are part of Samurai&#039;s &quot;Twelve Earthly Branches&quot; collection, a series of special jeans produced over the course of a 12-year period.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/2022\/10\/samurai-celebrates-year-tiger-limited-edition-s5000vx17oz-raw-denim-jeans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samurai Celebrates Year Of The Tiger With Limited Edition S5000VX17OZ Raw Denim Jeans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This pair of S5000s are part of Samurai&#039;s &quot;Twelve Earthly Branches&quot; 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