Denims and Jeans

The fascinating world of Denim is briefly highlited on a quick Mill Tour. Fierce Middle East and Orient lower price on fabric and apparel manufacturing has forced some America Mills to shutdown. When you go into the Mills facility the characteristic good smell of cotton dominates. All Mills listed use Rope Dye process, will describe Open Yarn Dye process in some Puebla Mexico Mills. Wich one is better, well : Cone and all below will tell you Rope Dyeing is the Best, but others will say Open ...Read More

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Energie is a young trendy denim brand from Italy which places considerable value on non-conformity and freedom.Using finest fabrics and with focus on stylish washes, Energie has a collection of some finely created jeans. The Spring/Summer 2009 collection is also non-conformist with a lot of ‘Acid Washed- Grunge denim’ seen.  Focus is still on dark denims washed heavily ,bleached and given acid wash looks. There  seems to be an abscence of ripped, torn denim which is the flavour ...Read More

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For those who have not seen the full manufacturing process of a jeans right from the Cotton Cleaning to Final Packing of jeans, this small video would be a interesting piece to watch. Prepared by Nudie JeansTV - the official YouTube channel for Nudie Jeans Co., it covers all the aspects of manufacturing of jeans by Nudie Jeans. Though the process would be more or less same for all denim manufactured, the finishing and washing processes can sometimes differ from company to company. The first 1 ...Read More

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International Textile Group Inc. has cut 100 jobs at its White Oak denim-manufacturing plant in Greensboro — about 25 percent of the work force. It is the second time in five months that the company has eliminated jobs at the plant in an attempt to balance production capacity with demand for its denim from such customers as Levi’s. ITG cut 150 jobs in December as part of eliminating yarn production at the plant. We have seen considerable negative news related to Denim plants ...Read More

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Here is the Denim Trends Guide from Shopbop.com for the Spring/Summer 2009 . The video guide features jeans from major brands like : 7 For All Mankind AG Current/Elliot  Genetic J Brand Joe’s  Jeans Paige Denim Siwy  and more….   Most Visible Styles In the Video Boyfriend Jeans – As expected every brand worth its salt is coming out with Boyfriend Jeans and Shorts. Skinny Jeans – Still refuses to die out and keeps emerging in new forms like ‘Slouchy ...Read More

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We had seen  lot of ultra low waisted jeans that we had seen all through last couple of seasons and there was a  feeling that low waisted jeans were slowly fading away. But all the previous lows have been proved to be quite ‘High’ compared to this new Bikini Jeans that has come from a Japanese Brazilian company – Sanna Brazil Fashion. The bikini seems to have been merged with the jeans to create a new ultra low and exposing jeans. The bikini strings hold the jeans on to its ...Read More

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Gap has given a sneek peak of its 1969 premier denim line which it is relaunching for the Fall 2009. The most interesting part of this development is that the denims will be priced under $60 /- where most of the similar premium denim retails at above  $150 + range. Its designers (headed by Patrick Robinson) have spent over a year and half to develop this range at this price. Gap seems to have interacted with everyone in the supply chain – including managers from production floors of ...Read More

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Here is a video on behind the scenes look at the shoot of ‘Pepe Jeans’ Spring/Summer 2009 denim collection. The models are Giedre Dukauskaite and Sean Opry. Though not much can be seen about the details of denims , they seem to have used a lot of ‘White Bleached Denim’ for their collection.   ...Read More

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Google trends is a good place to know what people around the world are searching for and one can also compare different terms for search and get a single graph to analyze which search terms are more popular. Though one does not get the absolute number of searches made on a search query, but one can get the relative search data for different queries. I found it interesting to compare the search terms - ‘Denim’ and ‘Jeans’ for the year 2008. As expected the term ‘Jeans’ is much more ...Read More

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Following in the series of interesting denim videos for our readers, here are a couple of other videos which you should interesting. The first one will be useful for those who want to know what to wear with Boyfriend Jeans – this is one of commonly asked questions and many girls are looking for an answer on this. This video from Nordstrom gives you some ideas on the same. The second will help those who want to turn their baggy jeans into skinny .   What to wear with Boyfriend ...Read More

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