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I have a pair of Wrangler 13MWZ that is weird. They are the first Wranglers I got, a friend brought them from Canada some 16 years ago. Never did I see a pair like this and for the interested, I made some pictures to compare this special pair with a "standard" one. So all cowboys and 13MWZ wearers might want to take a look. To make things easier, for the course of this comparison I will call the weird pair simply "Weirdo".
Just to mention the colour when new: prewashed/rinsed indigo
The first difference is that the jeans were "Made in Canada". At this time, the Wranglers still were made in the US. The inside tag (which is located on the fly for Cowboy Cut Wrangler jeans) does have all intructions in English and French. I didn't take a picture of it as it has faded too much over this period of time.
The cut:
To see the difference in cut, I folded the jeans and put them together at the waist and outseam on top of another pair of 13MWZs (I used my black chocolate 13MWZs as they are 30/30, sorry for that, but my indigo 13MWZs are of a different size). You can see that Weirdo's rise is much higher and the seat is narrower. To me it's almost like a hybrid between 13MWZs, 936DENs and a womens cut.
Here is another picture, this time with a blue, standard pair on top of Weirdo. Have a look at the saddle, Weirdo has the typical slim fit style, straight saddle, the standard pair has the V-shaped saddle common on regular fit jeans.
The fabric:
Wrangler Cowboy Cut jeans have a different type of denim (most of them, there are some prewashed colours with a diagonal denim weave) - the "broken twill". It was invented to prevent the leg twisting of the usual, diagonal denim weave. It looks like a zig-zag pattern and was once dubbed "Wrandam" or "Wrangom", one of the two, I'm not sure which. Weirdo does have a traditional weave (on top, standard broken twill pair is the pair between desk and Weirdo).
Minor details:
The neolite back pocket patch is different - Weirdo has the patch usually used on boot cut Cowboy Cut models. (Weirdo on the right)
Weirdo has a different pocket stitching, you can see the "W" has the diamond stitch as Levi's has in their arcuate while the standard 13MWZs are stitched with single needles.
Weirdo has rivets with "wrangler wrangler" stamped onto them in a round pattern, usually rivets are blank.
The small, black Wrangler tag on the saddle seam was different on Weirdo (missing by now) - it had the classic Wrangler font used on other Wrangler jeans (e.g. Rugged Wear) as opposed to the Cowboy Cut's "ropey" font.
Weirdo's waist button has "Wrangler Wrangler" on it, with the words parted by silhouettes of horses. As on the rivets and pocket patch, the font is the classic one. 13MWZs do have the "ropey" font on the waist button.
The inseam:
Cowboy Cut jeans do have flat inseams to prevent uncomfortable pressure on the inner thigh when being in the saddle. Weirdo's inseam is the usual double felled inseam found on a lot of jeans. (standard 13MWZ on the left)
I hope this has been interesting to some of you. If anybody does know about the Weirdo pair, please post your information. I doubt these are women's jeans, as the seat is too slim and the waist is cut too straight, but I might be wrong as I don't know much about lady's Wranglers. They simply might be irregular jeans.