By Jeff Sanico             Photographs by Eric Sueyoshi

Buying a pair of jeans today is an arduous task. Unless you’re a diehard consumer of one particular brand and style, you might end up a frustrated mess in some isolated dressing room, drowning in a pool of designer boot-cut, hip-slung 12-ouncers. David Lim, who owns the high-end denim label Kasil (pronounced “castle”), is figuring out how to stay afloat in this ocean of durable cotton. He shouldn’t have a…