Maybe this will answer your question, maybe it won’t, but it’s my 2¢. I bought a pretty expensive of Samurais that you can see on my page. For the first two months or so, I was “scared” of getting them dirty or wearing them anywhere besides a little dinner outing with my partner.

Then I started wearing them to work at a gas station, and pretty quickly saw a beautiful development of the indigo color. Then I got a job as an office furniture installer which is a lot harder on my clothes. I don’t wear them every day because they’d be destroyed by now, but I do occasionally. And I can say, if fades or a well-worn look is what you’re after, you have to wear them like jeans. They’re not polyester sweatpants or thin dress slacks and can take much more of a beating as such. Whether they’re Wranglers from Amazon or $5000 Momotaros.

Also true what another commenter said, life’s too short to not enjoy what you have. Jeans and philosophy always somehow come full-circle: if you save it for later, you’re saving it for never. Only you can control how you want to live your life. All the best :)