Jean Queen

There’s more choice in jeans than the milk section at a supermarket but experts are on hand to kit you out, writes Georgina Safe.

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Feats of genius on the fly

Employees of Blue Vase Marketing, located at the Cummings Center, wanted to do something for the victims of the earthquake disaster in Japan. Even though no one in the company had a direct connection to the people affected by the earthquake, everyone felt the need to do something.

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Just in time for warm weather, Huggies brand is encouraging parents to dress their little ones “Cute for a Cause” with the much anticipated return of the limited-edition Huggies Jeans Diaper.

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Huggies Jeans Diapers Back on Store Shelves Just in Time for Summer

Whether you just bought an airline ticket or a pair of jeans online, chances are an Internet search preceded the transaction. Now Facebook hopes to make its vast web of online social connections another central ingredient in the complicated dance between retailer and consumer.

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With aid of older sister, Trystan Watson, 7, raises $11,300 for St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

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Wear your denim proud with pieces from this jeanswear line.

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Denim Dressing: 18 Looks from CK One Jeans

Wear your denim proud with pieces from this jeanswear line.

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Denim Dressing: 18 Looks from CK One Jeans

Would jeans by any other name still fit as tight? That’s the question posed by Naem Denim, a young L.A. jeans line seeking to make its mark in the fashion world without premium-label prices. Instead, Naem — a play on the word “name” — offers men’s and women’s pieces ranging from $108 to $158, considerably less expensive than the comparable options from J. Brand or 7 For All Mankind — lines co …

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Naem Denim: L.A.-made jeans fit to be tried

Officers say 20-year-old Dustin Matthew Marshall tried on a new pair of jeans at a Walmart and left without paying for them.

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He made his blue jeans talk — to tell police who he was

It all starts in the 1850s when Levi Strauss, a German dry goods merchant living in San Francisco, was selling jeans under the “Levi’s” name to the mining communities of California. One of Strauss’s customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co wholesale house.

Designer jeans also ( brand jeans ) are high-fashion jeans that their business marketing is a status symbol. The Nakash brothers (Joe, Ralph, and Avi) are generally credited with starting the trend when they launched their Jordache line of jeans in 1978. Designer jeans are cut for women’s jeans and men’s jeans and often worn skin-tight. They typically feature prominently visible designer names or logos on the back pockets and on the right front coin-pocket. In the late 1980s, designer jeans lost popularity.

In the early 2000s, they started coming back into fashion, with specialty brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Versace Jeans, Armani Jeans, Diesel Jeans, AG Jeans, Antik Denim, Buffalo, Citizens of Humanity, Chip and Pepper, Dorinha Jeans Wear, Earnest Sewn, Energie, Evisu, G-Star, Goldsign, Hudson, Habitual, J Brand, J & Company, James Jeans, Joe’s Jeans, Ksubi, Lucky Brand Jeans, Mavi Jeans, Miss Sixty, Nudie Jeans, Paige Premium Denim, Paper Denim & Cloth, People For Peace, Replay,Rock and Republic, Seven for All Mankind, TAG, Taverniti So Jeans, True Religion, and Yanuk, among others. Fits of jeans are determined by current styles, sex, and by the manufacturer. Here are some of the fits produced for jeans: ankle jeans, baggy jeans, tight jeans also bell bottom/flares bootcut boy cut or boyfriend (for women) carpenter jeans classic hip-huggers loose jeans, low rise jeans “Mom” jeans original jeans overall phat pants relaxed fit saggy skinny jeans slinkies Straight jeans Wide leg Jorts (Jean shorts)