First of all congratulations for achieving Bronze status through the Indigood programme of Kontoor brands. Please tell us more about it.

Cone Denim received the Bronze Status through Kontoor Brands Indigood® Program for freshwater savings. With this milestone, we are the first textile mill in North America to be awarded the performance status of Bronze or better from the Indigood Program. Mills participating in the Indigood Program are third-party verified for their water savings.

Water savings is a key pillar for our sustainability initiatives, and Cone Denim has set an aggressive goal to reduce water consumption of 25% by 2025. We are on target to meet this goal with Cone Denim achieving 21.8% water savings (as reported at the end of 2022), which has largely been led by our Zero Liquid Discharge installation at our mill in Parras, Mexico. This state-of-the-art wastewater treatment system saves 100 million gallons of water annually by recycling the water used in the denim manufacturing process.

How does becoming a member of Circulose Supplier network of Renewcell benefits Cone Denim and your customers?

Cone Denim joined the CIRCULOSE® Supplier Network, a network comprised of yarn and textile producers committed to streamlining and increasing CIRCULOSE® production across the supply chain. Our partnership in the CIRCULOSE® Supplier Network underscores our ongoing commitment to drive change toward a sustainable future.

We are committed to increasing the percentage of recycled and circular fiber content in the denim fabrics we design, develop, and bring to market. Joining the CIRCULOSE® Supplier Network is among several initiatives Cone Denim is undertaking as part of our leading role in influencing the adoption of circularity in the industry.

Our customers can look forward to more options that incorporate more circular content, more recycled content, and more sustainable fibers into Cone Denim styles that maintain the authenticity and character of classic denim. We anticipate releasing our first commercial fabric with the CIRCULOSE® fiber in early 2024.

Speaking about your most recent collection, what products do you think stand out the most and why?

We recently released our Spring Summer 2025 collection and are getting a great response from denim brands on the new line.

Our Remastered capsule focuses on scalable sustainability and denim fabrics designed for longevity. They are designed to be timeless and will go the distance regarding wash range and versatility in end use. They all are in a classic denim construction. The denim fabrics in this capsule encompass a range of recycled content from 5%-100%. We are seeing strong interest from brands with fabrics constructed of 100% post-industrial waste (PIW).

Since releasing the new line, we’ve had a lot of energy around our novelty capsule, Midnight Voyage. This capsule is a vignette of novelty fabrics that include a variety of stripes, a herringbone weave, and colors.

We have also had positive reactions to Lagoon Blue, a brilliant, turquoise-cast indigo, and our super soft authentic Tencel blends as part of our “In the Clouds” concept. 

There is an emphasis on texture as a statement this season. We designed versatile fabrics suitable for various silhouettes and sizes, regardless of whether it’s a classic denim construction or a novelty weave or color.

Our Etched in Texture concept is a compilation of crosshatch, marble, and pronounced slub character styles. To answer the market need for more pronounced character, we created a menu of yarn textures from subtle to bolder.

What do you think have been the biggest changes in the denim world that you can experience post covid and with the unstable political situation?

The macroeconomic situation with inflation has resulted in the industry experiencing some softness, but things are picking up as brands work through their inventories. While business is not as strong as we want, we are seeing demand return as global denim inventories decline.

Denim brands are looking to make wash and sizing decisions much later in the buying cycle, which is pushing some sourcing for the U.S. market back into the North American hemisphere. We are also seeing increased demand for recycled content and any fabric attributes that can tell a documentable, sustainable story. Our customers are seeking options that include more circular content, more recycled content, and more sustainable fibers in styles that maintain the authenticity and character of classic Cone Denim.

You participated in the Denimsandjeans Vietnam show this year. How was your experience there?

This was a wonderful event gathering different players in the country and within the region. From local brands, garment makers, and fiber suppliers to machinery manufacturers. The show was well attended with informative forums and valuable market intel takeaways after the two-day event!

Contact the CONE DENIM team here.

Wrangler launched its limited collection named 27406 collection using the last of the selvedge denims produced by Cone. 27406 Collection , named after the zip code where the denim is cut and sewn in the Wrangler’s hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, is crafted by Wrangler’s team of skilled sewers and fabric cutters. The collection uses denim from the Cone Denim® White Oak Plantâ„¢ and the expert sewing and fabric cutting team from the Wrangler Service Support Center crafted each piece for the collection. The selvedge styles are constructed from denim woven recently in White Oak.

Denim in hand, the team cut the fabric and hand-stitched the belt loops, pockets, signature W, and iconic Wrangler patch. Once complete, each piece is stamped on the inside, numbered and signed off on by the sewer who completed it. For this collection, the Wrangler Service Support Center acted as a small manufacturing facility with the design creation, fabric development and manufacturing happening within a 3-mile radius.

Look for the signature detail of the selvedge edge on the inside waistband, inner cuff and front placket. On each jacket, you’ll find four unique features: an American flag sewn into the waist, and a riser label above the left chest pocket. Finally, the defining “W” stitch on the front pockets, inspired by cattle-branding. The “W” first appeared on the pockets of Wrangler jeans in 1947, signifying “Western Wear.”

Scroll down to see some of our best pick from the collection, the headline of each article has its name , price and number of pieces manufactured.

27406 MEN’S SELVEDGE DENIM JACKET | $265.00 | Only 88 Units

27406 MEN’S RIGID SLIM FIT SELVEDGE JEAN | $ 225.00 |Only 149 Pairs

27406 WOMEN’S DENIM JACKET |$265.00 | Only 62 Units

WRANGLER® 27406 WOMEN’S RAW SKINNY JEAN |$225.00 | Only 152 Pairs

The current collection is made from 100% cotton selvage denim woven at Cone’s White Oak Mill. The special Pinto finishing process is applied in fabric form before the garments are cut and sewn, guaranteeing each and every garment comes out truly unique.

The 2018 wash looks more brighter than the original wash.Pinto Denim is available in both selvage and wide styles.

HIGHER GROUND SKIRT

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HIGHER GROUND BOYFRIEND CROP

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Don’t miss the Denimsandjeans Bangladesh Show 8.0 on October 4&5 !

The film features many new denim heads visiting this epic mill to explore and learn as to how the things were started initially. At one point , the film also speaks about its association with Levi’s 501 Jeans and peculiarity of red-lined selvedge. The film is all around a tribute to its founders and legendary members who contributed to make this mill as one of the largest Denim Mill of world.

In 1905 brothers Moses and Ceasar Cone embarked on what would become an icon in the denim industry, a mill called White Oak. The turn of the century brought a new energy and excitement to America, and denim fabrics gained popularity as a favored “workwear”. The first bobbin of White Oak yarn was produced on April 20, 1905.

Cone denim celebrates 110 years of manufacturing with the release of a special T-shirt and 100% profits from the sale of this T-shirt would go to support

the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Greensboro .

“We are returning to our roots with the unveiling of Natural Indigo Selvage Denim, produced exclusively at its historic White Oak® mill in Greensboro, NC. The Natural Indigo Collection is “Crafted with Care in the USA” and created in celebration of White Oak’s 110 year anniversary -Cone denim says’”.

“This is one of our most exciting developments,” says Kara Nicholas, Vice President Product Development + Marketing. “The celebration of White Oak’s 110 year anniversary made this the perfect time to bring together White Oak’s heritage and authentic selvage denims with new innovation in bio based natural dyes from plant based – US farmed indigo. As far as we know, this is the first time that natural indigo has been used in scalable production in the United States in over 100 years.”

Some Cool Cone Products

Coming out with their Top Secret line of Selvedges to commemorate their 110 years Cone denim White Oak brings out some cool natural indigo colors and fabric structures to give a very different look and feel to the selvedges (see pics below).

Cone denim Detail shots of knees and whiskers for month 4 of the W660 WhiteOak110 selvage denim wear test

WhiteOak110 collection style 7237 “Floral” shirting fabric is finally here in a 6.25 oz 100% cotton Dobby weave woven at the one n only White Oak mill.

Some Vintage Garments From Cone Collection

We also bring below some of iconic heritage garments from Cone collection – some of which are over 100 years old and listed by Cone.

The mid-1900’s waist overall is from an unknown brand and the owner practically wore them to pieces, as evident by the extensive hand-mending and patchwork seen throughout, not to mention the lack of indigo left in yarns. These appear to be heavily customized by the wearer as well- the single needle stitching, unfinished seams and miscellaneous suspender buttons sewn onto the waist band all suggest that at one point these could’ve been started life as bib overalls and turned into a version more closely resembling the 5-pocket denim jeans.

A pair of heavily worn bib overalls from Blue Bell brand back in the ’40’s. This low back model has heavy hand-stitched patchwork repairs throughout, triangular suspender reinforcement, and printed “Blue Bell” label. There were several versions of Blue Bell’s label and the layout of this particular one indicates it is an earlier design. On later model garments the bell on the label is slightly tilted at an angle. Branded buttons read either “SANFORIZED” or “BLUE BELL.” The suspender straps were taken from an Anvil brand garment.

A hickorystripe popover style work wear shirt with chambray trim along the bottom circa 1940. The patchwork, hand-stitched repairs and lack of industrial fasteners, together with the “one operation” style of seeing indicates that this shirt was either homemade, or fashioned by a local seamstress. The front and back of the garment shows the sun-bleached outline of the bib and straps of the overalls the wearer paired it with.

Heavy hand repairs with a missing back left leg exposing cross sections of patchwork mending give way to a two back pocket bib design low back model with triangular suspender reinforcements.

And given below is a video from CONE proudly declaring that their fabrics are ‘STILL MADE IN AMERICA’ !

Still Made In America from Cone Denim on Vimeo.

• Cone denim will immediately launch Crailar Flax denim developments in its CONE® 3D offering to its existing clients.
• Crailar and Cone Denim will jointly introduce Crailar Flax denim developments to Crailar’s current partner brands.
• Crailar and Cone Denim will jointly create and manage marketing materials, sales meetings, trade shows, press launches, trade and consumer marketing activities.

  Crailar Technologies Inc., offers cost-effective and environmentally sustainable natural fiber in the form of flax, hemp and other bast fibers for use in textile, industrial, energy, medical and composite material applications. Produced using a fraction of water and chemical inputs compared with other natural fibers, CRAiLAR Flax is the newest natural fiber introduction to the market in decades. The Company supplies its CRAiLAR Flax to HanesBrands, Georgia-Pacific, Brilliant Global Knitwear, Tuscarora Yarns, Target Corp., and Kowa Company for commercial use, and to Levi Strauss & Co., Cotswold Industries, Cintas, Carhartt, Ashland, PVH Corp., and Lenzing for evaluation and development. The Company was founded in 1998 as a provider of environmentally friendly, socially responsible clothing.

  Crailar flax is supposed to be a highly eco friendly fiber where a kilo of CRAiLAR Flax only requires 17 liters to produce the same quantity of finished fiber — 99 percent less water than cotton, using Field to Market’s research. Factor in far fewer pesticides and herbicides and it increases its eco friendliness . For such reasons, the USDA has designated CRAiLAR Flax Fiber 100% BioPreferred®

  CONE DENIM, probably the most well known name in world denim industry , is headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., where its flagship White Oak is located. Its operations there consist of the most modern equipment and technology alongside vintage looms from mid-century denim making. Its has manufacturing facilities in US, Asia and Mexico . It is also one of the top 10 World denim corporations.