Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
* Check out our other Vietnam video with Trung: Tracking Down Vietnam's Best Bootmaker youtube.com/watch?v=u3yJ5Mdl0IE
* Thanks to @Heddelscom for this article: heddels.com/2025/02/meet-vietnams-most-dedicated-denimheads
* Thanks to Copper Denim for hosting us! Here's their website, but it's in Vietnamese, but if you do the auto-translate thing and have a little faith you can get some great value gear copperdenim.vn
* What IS selvedge denim, though? stridewise.com/what-is-selvedge-denim
* Here are the guys in the video, give 'em a follow!
- Tu Pham, owner of Copper Denim instagram.com/tupham93
- Dang the ocean washer instagram.com/danggg.ng
- Tri instagram.com/huynh.tri
- Trung instagram.com/akito.boots
- Nhan instagram.com/nhansawit
- Khoa instagram.com/mediumraw09
Practically everyone in the world wears jeans, so while it might sound weird to make it a hobby or a focal point of your lifestyle, it also makes sense that if everyone wears something, you'd wonder if there's a premium kind — what's the best version of casual pants I can find? From this starting point, you can open up a world of shuttle looms, indigo dyes, and Canadian tuxedos — or as they call it in Saigon, "electrician style."
As a dude with a channel about boots and jeans, I've encountered many "raw denim communities" around the world, and when I found out about one in Ho Chi Minh City, I decided to grab a camera and come investigate with Stridewise's editor, Karl. This took like a year to put together, I hope you like it!
00:00 What's a raw denim subculture?
00:35 Isn't Vietnam too hot to love denim?
2:18 Denim's protective element
03:40 "Electrician Style"
04:20 How to get Vietnam level denim fades
06:21 Vietnam, America, and Friction
07:21 Why Sell Raw Selvedge Denim in Vietnam?
08:13 Raw Denim and Boots
12:04 What does a raw denim club do?
13:21 Wrapping up
* Check out our other Vietnam video with Trung: Tracking Down Vietnam's Best Bootmaker youtube.com/watch?v=u3yJ5Mdl0IE
* Thanks to @Heddelscom for this article: heddels.com/2025/02/meet-vietnams-most-dedicated-denimheads
* Thanks to Copper Denim for hosting us! Here's their website, but it's in Vietnamese, but if you do the auto-translate thing and have a little faith you can get some great value gear copperdenim.vn
* What IS selvedge denim, though? stridewise.com/what-is-selvedge-denim
* Here are the guys in the video, give 'em a follow!
- Tu Pham, owner of Copper Denim instagram.com/tupham93
- Dang the ocean washer instagram.com/danggg.ng
- Tri instagram.com/huynh.tri
- Trung instagram.com/akito.boots
- Nhan instagram.com/nhansawit
- Khoa instagram.com/mediumraw09
Practically everyone in the world wears jeans, so while it might sound weird to make it a hobby or a focal point of your lifestyle, it also makes sense that if everyone wears something, you'd wonder if there's a premium kind — what's the best version of casual pants I can find? From this starting point, you can open up a world of shuttle looms, indigo dyes, and Canadian tuxedos — or as they call it in Saigon, "electrician style."
As a dude with a channel about boots and jeans, I've encountered many "raw denim communities" around the world, and when I found out about one in Ho Chi Minh City, I decided to grab a camera and come investigate with Stridewise's editor, Karl. This took like a year to put together, I hope you like it!
00:00 What's a raw denim subculture?
00:35 Isn't Vietnam too hot to love denim?
2:18 Denim's protective element
03:40 "Electrician Style"
04:20 How to get Vietnam level denim fades
06:21 Vietnam, America, and Friction
07:21 Why Sell Raw Selvedge Denim in Vietnam?
08:13 Raw Denim and Boots
12:04 What does a raw denim club do?
13:21 Wrapping up
