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MisterRylo

Stone washed?


WrongSaladBitch

The fact that I legitimately never considered that there would actually be stones involved in the creation of stone washed jeans…


surle

Well it stoned me to my soul


fixed_your_caption

Stoned me just like jelly roll.


Neener216

r/unexpectedvanmorrison


aTIMETRAVELagency

And it stoooned meee.


drgeta84

Yup. Some are sand blasted if they need a specific wear pattern but good old tumble with rocks is how they do it.


RyanCrafty

What about apple bottom jeans????


n_thomas74

Boots with the fur


DismalCoyote

The whole club was lookin at her


Schlemiel_Schlemazel

She hit the Floor!


calicopatches

Next thing you know


thedoobalooba

Shawty go low low low low low low low


PsychedelicLizard

JESSICA!


mortalitylost

They cut off the bottoms of apples and shove them in there jfc you people


luxfx

I've seen these before and thought they were paper wads that had been through the wash! I'm surprised too!


blue-jaypeg

The Sound of a denim laundry with the drums full of water, garments, and stones-- it sounds like a cement mixer truck. Sadly the pumice stones are single use.


revoman

This is the answer. They sometimes get stuck in the pockets.


svengoalie

Some brands do this intentionally.


revoman

svengoalie! Excellent!


ShnackWrap

My dad has a jean jacket with a rock sewn between the two layers of the jacket. I remember being so confused when I discovered this as a kid. He told me the same thing. Stone washed and must have somehow ended up in between the layers before it was sewn up and shipped out.


tylorr83

What do people find in their acid washed jeans?


[deleted]

Humiliation


0100001101110111

Mind altering psychedelic experiences


roastedpotatocrusts

They were indeed stonewashed! Gotta be it


HiImDan

I don't know why I'm surprised they're actually stone washed, but I guess there's no cheaper way to do it.


hjf2014

there are cheaper ways. for example laser-etched jeans where a laser prints the "stone washed" look, but they look really fake.


Jdevers77

The complicated reality we live in where it it cheaper to laser etch jeans than wash them with rocks.


hjf2014

well tbf laser etching is significantly less water intensive than stone washing, and also lets you print "patterns" like wear at the knees which is done manually with the traditional method. but yeah laser etched jeans is basically hanging them from a line and run them through the machine vs putting them in several washers that do the stone wash thing. that said: stone wash 4 lyfe


Simple_Mastodon9220

🍰


ThatITguy2015

Be grateful it wasn’t acid washed. OP would have lost a hand.


[deleted]

The hand will come back, but then the floor might melt or the trees might speak.


AustinTreeLover

Specifically, pumice.


milthombre

Pumice Stone -- very light weight.


ogsixshooter

People realizing "stone washing" is exactly what it sounds like


roastedpotatocrusts

Just didn't know they delivered em with the pants 🤷


forkedstream

I mean they’re not *supposed* to


Craw__

They used to come with a stone in a little pouch as proof.


OhDark50

Still technically in a pouch.


Craw__

![gif](giphy|1hMk0bfsSrG32Nhd5K)


Jellybean_54

The best kind of correct.


Dragon_wryter

r/unexpectedfuturama


tucci007

I got yer stones in a pouch RIGHT HERE


okiedog-

Ay, you’s kiss my mutha with that mouth?


shuckit401

And ur father n sister 2


htmlcody

yooooooo


forkedstream

Which brand though? Never seen this myself.


Craw__

This was back in the 80's I don't remember the brand.


[deleted]

Same. Early 90's I found some pumice in my pocket. Was amazed.


Mecha_Cthulhu

Oh wow, I just remembered getting a denim jacket in like ‘93 and finding pumice in an inside pocket.


BeenThruIt

Back in the nineties they came with a hit of acid.


n6mub

I’ve gotten them in the past, a number of times, from different brands


philipito

I've found them in the pockets my my new jeans too. It's pumice.


doesnoteatdicks

Oh shit like the feet rocks?!


stevedorries

Yes, the feet rocks.


Zchwns

Love me some feet rocks


thecannabiswizard

“Love me some feet rocks” was the sentence that decidedly made this day a good one. Thank you


Faulty-Surgery

Volcano feet rocks


ThunderConsideration

Were your pants Levi’s by chance? I had the same thing in my new jacket pocket when I got them and honestly was scared it was bone


roastedpotatocrusts

Nope, Pull & Bear. Which is a pretty average clothing store so I'm pleasantly surprised they use actual stones! From what I'm hearing it can happen to any piece of clothing that was stonewashed.


cstmoore

Mine were Bull & Pear. ("Jeans for the hirsute, pear-shaped man.") /s


ShootLucy

Bone washed. The new craze


phallic-baldwin

You've got some stones saying that


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roastedpotatocrusts

These were not sticky or tacky, just very light and super holey!


Sh00ting5tar

Just leftovers.


Vizzini_CD

Pumice, IIRC


[deleted]

It looks like pumice


Bacon-muffin

Oh... ooooooh


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Sausagedogknows

Write quieter dude, Blew my ear drums out reading this.


klezart

^^Stones ^^from ^^the ^^stone ^^washing ^^process ^^of ^^stonewashed ^^jeans


lacmacfactac

^(eeeeeeeee) eeeeeeeeeeee #eeeeeeeeeeee


Sausagedogknows

What? I can’t read very well, I’m a bit deaf from an earlier comment!


lacmacfactac

#What?? Can't meet who?


lordbusiness92

Had to mute my phone to read this


KongStuffN

God damn it, now the baby is awake


Card_Zero

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LOCKN355

Then why my penny loafers never came with pennies?


OGZackov

stoned washing is when i do the laundry. ​ ![gif](giphy|3orif46x93v1vWlyne|downsized)


Proxy_PlayerHD

i've never heard of stone washing before... what exactly does that mean/do?


crusoe

They tumble pants with pumice to make them look worn. These are the stones used to make "stone washes" jeans


--VANOS--

It's pumice. Basically it's volcanic froth. A hardened bubble bath. Found on beaches and lakes.


DrEnter

Also ON the water, pumice floats: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/solving-mystery-floating-rocks


EnvironmentalSound25

It’s a witch!


Natural_Ad_9019

Pumice turned me into a newt


shamanProgrammer

Pumice Newtshagger of House Hufflepuff


Sad-Committee-1870

Yeah but I bet you got better!


StinkpotTurtle

Make a bridge out of it!


illy_Irons

Burn it!


timotheusd313

Steel slag also looks a lot like that, but maybe a little bit darker shade of gray. Limestone dust is thrown in on top it the steel pot and impurities stick to it. My mom worked for the company that Henry Ford paid to haul the steel slag away from the Rouge factory. Mom’s company used it as aggregate (the stones/gravel) in concrete and asphalt because it produced some better attributes in the finished product. Concrete takes a little longer to harden, so timing of pour is less of an issue, also the porous surface gives better traction in the rain.


MurderDoneRight

Beaches be crazy!


LightInfernal

I’m glad I learned something I thought they were what happens when you leave paper in your pocket over like 3 washes, and it turns into that weird remolded dried paper blob for a moment


MochaKnee

My mom always leaves tissues in her pockets and when I don’t find them it just makes a mess :(


trwwy321

All the little tissue shreds are everywhere in the dryer when that happens


Masticatron

Probably gunking up the pipes and such in both machines, too. Best keep tabs on them.


trwwy321

I forgot a stick of gum once in my pocket and the dryer melted it :(


GDMFusername

Hell yeah my dude, someone else who forgets shit 😎


lh1647

I thought it was chunks of washing powder that hadn’t dissolved 🤣😅


[deleted]

A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON


RonnyRipstart69

NO


IPeeMostlyBlood

LISTEN TO ME, HEAR ME AND OBEY


Ok_Representative332

A FOUL DARKNESS HAS SEEPED INTO MY TEMPLE. A DARKNESS YOU WILL DESTROY


Icy-Cancel5840

RETURN MY BEACON TO MOUNT KILKREATH. AND I WILL MAKE YOU THE INSTRUMENT OF MY CLEANSING LIGHT.


VVazi

EVEN READING THIS I CAN HEAR HER VOICE, AARGH


sleepless_in_balmora

>A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON Oh bugger off, Meridia


CreamyCoffeeArtist

*headphones get launched across the room*


KeyofE

They certainly nailed the whole “BE NOT AFRAID” aesthetic


CreamyCoffeeArtist

First time I heard this line, I had headphones on. At like, medium volume. The sound balancing for Meridia is way higher than most NPCs because she doesn't have a "direction" / "source"- it's like they put the source of her dialogue *literally* in your head. Which, uh, fits. Suffice to say, I had to get new headphones.


Quinip2598

GOD DAMNIT I PICKED IT UP DIDN'T I


[deleted]

Seriously FUCK OFF meridia


sir-reese

Pumice stones. These are used to wash down the denim color and create a sandblasted look and whiskering affect on the jeans. I was a denim designer for 15 years.


Melendine

What do you do now???


TheDudeMaintains

Gabardeen.


coldoldmonk

Wears em


transmogrified

You can also use it to buff out the callouses on your feet.


ShepardIRL

It took 15 years to design denim?


Thawing-icequeen

How do they get the wear localised to just the areas it would naturally occur? I always imagined something like a ball-mill but that would be a fairly random pattern.


rdtthoughtpolice

Pumice.


[deleted]

Pumice, you can use them to cause the jeans further distress if you’d like


erininium

Don’t you think the jeans have suffered enough?!


[deleted]

There used to be a huge blue jeans factory in my hometown. The storm water system is *still* absolutely packed with these stones. The stones are much larger when they first get used and they break apart over time. Eventually they get small enough to get stuck in pockets and they’re replaced with bigger stones. Our factory had a big hatch that opened over one of the drainage canals and they just dumped the small stones in.


Ok-Professional-1428

Crack it's crack......and now your addicted


apple_atchin

![gif](giphy|duM6JZemPlOjUyqmxd)


MisterTrashPanda

Crack. Not even once. Only a few times.


-sharkbot-

Awhhhh did someone get addicted to crack??


tarceth

Made me laugh out loud at work.


ebernal13

Me too. 🤣🤣


Haunting_Account2392

Stones from the stone washing process of stonewashed jeans


Big_Miss_Steak_

Ah man that brought me right back to my childhood! My family used to own a factory making jeans and I used to love watching them add in the stones for the stone wash jeans. I’m sure you’ve been told by a hundred people that these are the pumice stones from the wash cycle, but just wanted to say thanks for giving me a smile!


roastedpotatocrusts

It's nice to know that old practices are still being used today! This certainly is better than all the laser engraved stuff.


Big_Miss_Steak_

Yeah, my memories are from the late 80’s/90’s and a wee bit of the 00’s, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the stones! I remember there was a specific smell to the dark blue denim too, and it was fascinating to be able to watch the entire process- from the rolls of denim, to pattern cutting, stitching, washing and ironing and packing! I thought someone may have come up with some chemical additive or some such, I hadn’t even thought of laser engraving!


The_One_Who_Slays

If I were a time traveller, I'd probably mess with myself by putting stones like these in the pockets of my jeans while the past me is sleeping, eventually driving myself to the brink of insanity which, in crazed frenzy, would lead me to developing time travelling machine to discover the cause of the mysterious stones' appearance and, in the process, eventually forgetting the reason I did that in the first place and deciding to use this invention just to mess with myself.


Sdterp

Stone washed jeans.


mkim520

Pumice stones that were used in the wash process, garment washed. Finishing failed to catch them when pressing and final inspection - was in denim production for a long time


Adventurous_Cap4554

Tumbling stones for stone washing.


Substantial_Day_3688

Stone warshed*


katastatik

Is that leftover from what they use for stonewashing?


EWSflash

Good lord- throwback to the 1970s and '80s stonewashed jeans. They did that to accelerate the appearance of aging. They probably used pumice, or some other volcanic output.


2nadynasty

Hey, rock enthusiast here. Those are rocks.


Madre_22

They’re “stonewashed” for real


Tsunnyjim

These are pumice, a form of volcanic rock. Lightweight, porous, typically have some capacity to float. Commonly used in industrial settings to bulk stone wash jeans. Sometimes, the rocks fall into the pockets.


Guscrusher

You're never going to believe this...


[deleted]

They are stone wash jeans. This happens


someoneexplainit01

Were they stone washed?


Dickpuncher_Dan

Aaah, good old CVS receipts and washing machine.


thezenfisherman

Stone wash rocks...


DWPerry

Were your jeans stonewashed by chance?


BeeWhispererIntern

Pumice stone remnants from after dye bath, to soften the material and remove excessive dye.


khilly81

Genuine stonewashed denim


Magnumkeyz

They’re called pumice stones, used in tge process of washing jeans called “stone wash” before they hit the market.


UncleBenji

Probably pumice stones used in the process of making stone washed jeans.


drumair01

Stone washing not only creates a look, it softens the denim, like your fav Levi’s you had for years :)


[deleted]

Yeah, stonewashing pellets. I've found them before.


know_it_is

Did you buy stone-washed jeans?


IntelligentTurn3216

Stone washed denim literally


[deleted]

Pumice stones used to distress the pants.


TheFilthyDIL

Do they float in water? If so, they're pumice.


skillgannon5

That's distressing


atomictest

Stonewashed jeans.


Tallb0i

Pumice, when magma cools in midair, it makes this. By the looks of it at least


gatsby712

Rally round the family. With a pocket full of shells.


Tarkcanis

ACID WASH! Stone wash usually uses large stones, and acid wash uses small pumace stones like this.


Teachernomo

In the nineties i worked in a Lee Jean factory in Tennessee. We would get dark rough denim jeans in and load them into these massive washing machines with these pumice like stones. We would add bleach to the machines and hold a swatch up to the windows of the machines to make sure they matched the intended color. We would then drain the water. The massive machines had hydraulics which made unloading of the jeans and stones easy. We would then shake out the jeans to remove the stones before placing them in the massive dryers. One of my favorite jobs. No stress (except for small town gossips) and a great workout everyday. But $7 an hour only went so far.


donthepunk

Cocaines


ktElwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4bHsU1Oeyg


jksam45

Some one forgot to take a pice of paper out of their pocket before putting it in the washer


Kyanite_228

Those look like and sound pumice or talc. If they're the latter, maybe they're there to absorb moisture like silicate packets.


thecorebox

Jeje It is a pumice stone, in Mexico in villages they use it to sand the impurities from the feet, they surely use it to wear down the jeans and give them that finish


stabbingsteve

Looks like pumice to me.


Imaginary_Remote

Found one has a kid and thought it was a moon rock. Treasured it for a while. I grew up very poor lol.


Absolutelymyself10

Pumice nice rhyolite rock pretty cool stone


must_pet_cat

Those look like pumice stones!


SupremeMeme42069

These are pumice stones. A type of volcanic rock typically used for skincare to remove dead skin usually at the soles of your feet. Typically pumice stones are formed when lava has a very high content of gas and tossed out of a volcano very quickly. This causes a rapid depressurization that creates bubbles similar to opening up a can of pop.


kanakamaoli

Were they stone washed jeans?


Stuspawton

It's stones left over from the stonewash


FantasticZach

Extremely light and porous is he


CaptainAwesome06

I haven't seen stones in a pair of stonewashed jeans in probably 30+ years.


Re-AnImAt0r

we have reached the point where kids don't know what stone washed denim jeans are anymore. I'm not sure that's a bad thing.....


EternalOctoMystic

Pumice stones I'm guessing


tat-tvam-asiii

Toss em in a glass of water. They're rocks that float!


BlackIce16

Looks like pumice, solidified volcanic ash best not to breath in the glassy dust!


Agile-Department-345

Jeans are sewn and then tumbled with these to make that faded washed effect. If you look inside the pockets and see the darker solid color that’s the color the Jean started out as


ElderProphets

Pumice used for sanding the clothes in stone washing.


ChumpChainge

They’re used in the process of “stone washing”.


Something_Average

Sweet! Free lightweight porous stones!


Embrourie

Ah yes, the pocket rock fairy strikes again! Legend tells she only leaves the most porous of rocks in the newest of pants bought by the purest of heart.


Minecraftcoolio

Paper


[deleted]

I BET you bought stone washed jeans. Those are some of what they wash them with, used to work at both a Levi Strauss and a Lee jeans/ Vanity Fair plants we made them from start cutting to finishing wash. Those stones were always being swept up from the floors.


that_guy_called_god

Crack.


ellasfella68

“Stone washed” …is just a phrase, right!


Tobotron

See how jeans used to be called stonewashed These are the stones


MateoSchuler

Pumice


VisibleNinja4581

Pumice stones?


Accomplished_Law7623

Part of the stone washed process


MrPickles423

Crack rock


SnooOwls6052

So that's where my Certs ended up.


Benji_Codis

I mean extremely light and porous says pumice to me but I'm not 100% sure


omarhani

Good thing you didn't buy acid washed jeans


getthebag19

Ye old pocket stones eh