Handmade denim by Ande Whall Denim Co.
This is incredible. Check it out. One man, making jeans by hand. Ande Whall documents the entire process from when the Japanese denim fabric arrives at his home, all the way until he packages the finished product. It is super detailed and is actually pretty long. That being said, this will definitely give you a deeper appreciation for denim.
(found via Valet)
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Darn Denim
I had my jeans repaired twice at Self-Edge in San Francisco. All three of their locations have darning machines which are special machines that repair holes in garments. The main advantage to having your jeans repaired by darning rather than merely patching the holes is durability. Darning a hole in a pair of jeans means that new threads are being sewed into the jean thereby filling in the hole as opposed to a patch that basically masks the hole with another piece of fabric sewed onto the jean.
The guys over at Self-Edge do a great job at jean repair. They make sure to darn your denim according to the way the garment naturally sits and falls so as to maintain the shape of the garment, ensuring that your fades and whiskers stay in the same place. They also make sure to use threads that match the color of the threads of the areas that need to be repaired, which makes the repairs to your jeans look less obvious. Check out the repairs made to the back-right pocket! The color is spot-on.
If you need to get your jeans repaired and/or hemmed, I recommend that you stop by Self-Edge if you can get to one of their locations. They have stores in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.
Oh yeah, they have some of the best denim available, so if you want a new pair of rawdenz, they got you covered.
(Source: omgerald)
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Washed my APCs the other day. Here’s what I did:
1. Box/bathtub/clean toilet
2. Woolite Dark + a dirty garden hose (for flavor)
3.
Put your junk in the boxFill up the box with water (preferably cold) and Woolite Dark4. Submerge jeans while rubbing the fibers against itself to agitate dirt
5. Let that ish marinate in its own juices. (You can think of the 8 months of wear as a kind of dry rub)
6. Hang dry!
Your turn!
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501 Story
Jeans began with the 501® and so an entirely new category of clothing was born. Not only that, the 501® jean has retained it’s fame and relevance for every successive generation, making it both first and foremost. The range of historical 501®’s that we continue to produce allow everyone to find their ideal jean.
Take a look in your closet. No matter where you live, chances are you have a pair of blue jeans in there. You may not know that these pants - the ones you can wear everywhere, from your job to your favorite club - originated with two European-born men living in the rough-and-tumble world of the 19th century American West.
Levi Strauss was a Bavarian immigrant who traveled to Gold Rush San Francisco in 1853 to be a simple wholesaler of dry goods: clothing, handkerchiefs, blankets, linens, purses and raingear, among other necessities.
Jacob Davis, originally from Latvia, made his way to Reno, Nevada where he worked as a tailor for the laborers who lived hardscrabble lives in the raw new railroad town. Their paths crossed in the early 1870’s.
When a customer’s wife asked for a pair of pants that wouldn’t fall apart, Davis made some trousers out of white cotton duck with metal rivets in the pocket corners for extra strength. They were soon the talk of Reno and, realizing he had a great idea on his hands, he decided to patent his new product. However, he needed a business partner to do it. So he went to the one man he thought could help him bring his product to life and to the market place: his fabric supplier, Levi Strauss, now a prosperous merchant and philanthropist.
The two men struck a deal and on May 20, 1873, they received a U.S. patent for the first blue jeans.
These first jeans - called waist overalls or just overalls - were made of 9 oz. blue denim which came from the Amoskeag Mill, in Manchester, New Hampshire, renowned for the quality of it’s fabrics.
Sewn in San Francisco at a factory in the industrial section south of Market Street, sold by the small retailers of the West, the pants were a new breed of workwear and became the template for the brands which appeared when the patent expired in 1890.They featured a cinch and buckle which, along with suspender buttons, kept the pants in place no matter what kind of rough work their owner was doing.
Within a few years of receiving the patent Levi Strauss & Co. was making riveted coats, bib overalls, vests and non-denim pants, in addition to the waist overalls, providing working men the clothing that made them equal to life in the harsh conditions of the American West.
Clothes with history.
(Source: levisvintageclothing.com)
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