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Founded by Sandeep Agarwal – who has been associated with denim since 1993- the website brings out the best in denim world – trends, analysis, reports on almost a daily basis for the service of the denim industry worldwide. The reports provided by Denimsandjeans.com over the last few years have been found quite useful by the industry players – designers, sourcing guys, mills, buyers etc.

  • Denim Product Development – An Analysis

    This is a guest post by Harry Mercer Product development is especially important in the denim market because of demands for novelty and performance, both on the fabric production side and from the garment processing side. There are 2 aspects to product development of fabrics. Product development is usually thought of as creating a product…

  • Donate Your Old Jeans, Get 30% Off GAP And Help Insulate Homes

    Have some spare old jeans which you can dispense with ? Go to any Gap store and return your old jeans and get 30% off denim purchases at (selected) Gap stores till March 14th. Initiated by the Cotton Incorporated , the Cotton: From Blue to Green Project takes your old jeans and converts them into…

  • Av. Price Of Denim Apparel Imports In US Goes Down 7% in 2009

    The average price of imports of denim apparels into US has gone down significantly in the year 2009 as compared to the year 2008 .The year 2008 had actually seen an increase of 1% in the average price of imports of denim apparels as compared to the year 2007. But when we come to the…

  • Acne Jeans Autumn/Winter 2010 Denim Collection

    Here is a video – a little too hot- for the Acne Jeans A/W 2010 denim collection . Here is another video – “Behind the scenes at the AW 2010 Presentation” Behind the scenes at the AW/10 Presentation from Acne Studios on Vimeo.   Acne Jeans is a Swedish denim jeans manufacturer and part of…

  • The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Denim Manufacturing Industry: 1960-2010

    Denim Fabric has been produced in the United States since the 1830’s. The denim twill weave results in high strength and durability. For those reasons denim has been used for centuries in garments worn by sailors, farmers, cowboys and laborers of all types. Denim Industry In US Till 1960s The Indigo-dyed denim produced in the…

  • Imports Of Women’s Denim Jeans Into US : 2007-2009

    In a previous report we mentioned that Imports of Women’s/Girls Jeans into US in the period from Jan-June 2009 increased over 6.34% over the same period in the year 2008. Lets see how this category fared over the entire last year and whether the same trend continued towards the end of the year or not.…

  • Oldest Pair Of Jeans – Want To Have A Look ?

    Update: As pointed out by Adriana of Deniminstitute  in comments , the oldest pair of jeans is actually from the 1880s and Levi’s bought it at USD 46,532/– . Thanks Adriana Just came across this interesting video on youtube regarding the oldest jeans available – a jeans belonging to the year 1890. Levi’s wanted to…

  • Arvind To Focus More On Organic Denim Production

    Arvind Mills -India – is scaling up its Organic Denim Production to meet increased demand . Organic denim is witnessing a surge in demand worldwide with big retailers like Walmart focusing on the same. Wal Mart is rumored to be aiming to convert almost all of its denims to ‘Organic’ . The organic denim usage…

  • Denim Reports,Trends Etc – From A Single Link

    Do you find it difficult to browse through a number of articles on Denimsandjeans.com and would like to see most of them but don’t have the time to browse through them. Would you rather prefer to sit back and watch as the articles unfold ? Well, its not a fanciful thought and you can do…

  • Diesel Coming To India – Finally !

    Diesel has been trying to enter India for a long time and its last attempt to tie up with Arvind Brands in India for a foothold in this growing market for luxury goods fell through. However, Diesel has finally tied up with Reliance Brands Ltd – a branch of Reliance Industries Ltd(largest private sector group…

  • Denim Constructions

    Here are some typical denim grey fabric constructions Weave: twill 3/1 Z 3/1 Denim Fabric Constructions Warp(ends/cm) Weft(ends/cm) Warp Tex Weft Tex Weave 24 16 7 84 6 98 3/1 25 16 7 84 6 98   24 16 7 84 5.5 107   20.8 15.5 7.4 80 6 98   27 19 7.5 78…

  • Imports Of Blue Denim Skirts In USA 2007-2009

    Let’s take a look at the import figures of Blue Denim Skirts into US in the last three years . We will find that the total imports of denim skirts has fallen in the last three years from 22.49 million pieces in 2007 to 13.72 million pcs in 2009(11 months). Also given are the few…