Plus Tellason’s New Sneakers, a Suvin Gold Tee, and Why Fullcount Wins at Pre-Washed
Summer is officially here, and I’ve already started digging through my summer closet and topping up. I picked up a couple of nice secondhand short-sleeve shirts—seersucker, linen, that kind of thing—and a pair of Tellason fatigue shorts from Brund.
This issue leans that way too: lighter things, T-shirts, sneakers, and a summer sale or two. The exception is the lead story, where I finally sat down to review Gustin.
After that, there’s a sponsored piece on Tellason’s new sneakers, a few product and sale updates, and some thoughts on pre-washed denim prompted by a special new Fullcount release.
In This Issue of the DH Weekly
- Gustin — I finally review the brand selling American-made selvedge from $99
- Tellason x Valsport — Italian-made sneakers that make more sense than you’d think
- UES Ramayana — exceptional Suvin Gold tees land at Redcast Heritage
- Cultizm — the summer sale is on, plus a separate code for full-price items
- Pre-washed denim — some thoughts, and why Fullcount does it best
- From the Archive — Tellason’s wide-leg Fredy reviewed
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I Finally Put Gustin to the Test
I’ve been talking with the people behind Gustin since they launched, and we’ve discussed doing something together more than once over the years. It never quite happened—until they sent me two pairs to review.
I roped in Frederik, my brother-in-law and house model, to do the wearing. He gets the jeans, I don’t pay for models, and you get to compare him across my other reviews.
What I was watching for was consistency—the thing I think about most after launching my own jeans last year, because if you’re not consistent with sizing, details, and finish every time, you break the trust you’ve built. On that front, Gustin is as solid as any brand I’ve handled.
The review gets into the rest: the two core fabrics, where Gustin spends and where it simplifies, a couple of finishing choices I’d have made differently, and the sizing, which is the one thing I’d really pay attention to before ordering.
And if you want to go deeper on the fits, fabrics, and how the campaigns work, we’ve also got a full Gustin buying guide.
The Sneakers I Reach For Instead of My Boots
I used to own a lot of boots. A few years back I sold off most of them, and now there are really only two pairs I still wear—and one of those, a roughout pair of Wescos I love, almost never gets worn because I won’t lace them up for a 20-minute school run.
So I default to sneakers. For a long time that felt like a guilty secret—when I started out I had it in my head that proper denimheads wore boots, so I did too. These days I’ve made my peace with it.
The hard part is finding sneakers that look right with heavier denim, not just any jeans. So when Tellason teamed up with Italian maker Valsport, it caught my attention: a low, old-school tennis shoe, made in Italy, with denim details kept so quiet you have to look twice to spot them.
A sneaker collab might look like a stretch for a brand known for jeans and workwear. But there’s a good reason it isn’t, and it goes back a long way for Pete and Tony. I get into that in the article, along with the design choices and why the collaboration makes more sense than it first appears.
Things Worth Your Attention
A few other things caught my eye this week—a couple of restocks, a sale worth knowing about, and a new collaboration that got me thinking.
UES Ramayana T-Shirts Land at Redcast Heritage
Yes, another Redcast update, and another T-shirt—but it’s the season, and the good ones keep dropping.
This time it’s UES’s Ramayana tees, made from Suvin Gold, one of the rarest and finest cottons in the world—it sits closer to cashmere than ordinary cotton in feel.
What makes them interesting is the construction. Rather than spinning that fine cotton into a delicate yarn, UES spins it thick, so you get the smoothness of premium cotton with the body of a proper heavyweight tee. They’re restocked in white, black, navy and grey, now up to XXXL.
If you’ve read my guide to the best loopwheeled T-shirts, this isn’t one of those—it’s a different route to a great tee, leaning on the cotton and the yarn rather than the knitting method. One heads-up: they run very small, so check the size chart before ordering.
Cultizm’s Summer Sale Is On
A sale at Cultizm isn’t exactly breaking news. But there have been two fresh announcements since last week’s Weekly, so it’s worth flagging.
The first is the summer sale itself, with up to 50% off across a genuinely deep selection—no code needed, just head to the sale page.
There’s also a separate summer deal running alongside it: 20% off full-price items with the code SUMMER at checkout.
Between the two, there’s a lot of good stuff to dig through.
If You’d Rather Skip the Break-In … Get Fullcounts
When it comes to jeans, almost everything I recommend, and everything I wear myself, is either raw or one-washed.
But pre-washed denim is getting more popular in this scene, and I’ve got nothing against it. If a broken-in, ready-to-wear pair is what you actually want, there’s no reason not to go for it.
What got me thinking about this is a new collaboration: Amsterdam’s Tenue de Nîmes has done its first-ever jean with Fullcount, a light “Palm Springs” hand-wash limited to 50 handmade pairs.
They also ran a nice interview with Kotaro from Fullcount around it, which is worth a read. It’s a lovely project, even if I’d never reach for a wash that light myself.
More to the point, if pre-washed is your thing, Fullcount is about the best you can get—Osaka-made on shuttle looms with no shortcuts.
Their own washes are really something else; the Dartford and the Santa Monica in particular, which you can see above across the slim, straight and wide fits.
The Tenue exclusive will be hard to get, but you can find Fullcount at Redcast Heritage (ES), Blue in Green (US), Cultizm (DE), and Clutch Café (UK).
From the Archive: Tellason’s Wide-Leg Fredy
Since Tellason’s already in this issue, it’s a good excuse to point back to a review I’m fond of: the Fredy, the brand’s wider-leg jean.
I reviewed it last year. It was “wide on time” then, and it still is.
Wider cuts have only kept growing since, and the Fredy is Tellason’s answer to that without chasing anything—a fuller leg done in a way that feels timeless rather than trend-driven.
My review goes into the fit, the proportions, and why this kind of cut works better than people expect once you actually wear it.
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