There can’t be anyone on radio better qualified to slope around Hackney in the wake of the August riots than the oral historian Alan Dein.
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Your seatbelt isn’t the only belt that must be securely fastened if you’re a stratospherically-famous punk rocker on board a flight operated by America’s leading budget airline. So, apparently, must the one which holds up your trousers.
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Green Day singer kicked off flight over sagging jeans
Being Modern: High-street jeans
/ Category: Jean NewsIn 1950s America, jeans were deemed so culturally subversive that teenagers were banned from wearing them in many public buildings. It’s hard to imagine the same furore today over a rack of identically “distressed” (and distressingly flimsy) high-street skinnies or supermarket stretch denim.
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Being Modern: High-street jeans
Three years ago they were selling clothes, but come next month they will be showcasing their works at the world stage.
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Kenya: Designers Make the Cut for Global Fashion Event
If you are in a band and are sick of lugging around your drum kit, then what about lightening your load and investing in a pair of “drum jeans”?
If you are in a band and are sick of lugging around your drum kit, then what about lightening your load and investing in a pair of “drum jeans”?
Susannah Frankel: ‘My favourite jeans are Current Elliot in vintage denim – so strait-laced a Sindy doll might have …
/ Category: Jean NewsThere’s a fine line between shopping with healthy enthusiasm and displaying signs of out-and-out addiction. For me, this is tested most regularly by the desire to own more pairs of jeans than is strictly necessary. Strange to relate, then, that the discipline with which I have chosen not to invest in denim this season is unprecedented.
Strict dress code also includes ban against long nails on female students and bright clothes
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Iran bans "tight jeans", tattoos at some universities
London proves pricey for knock-off goods
/ Category: Jean NewsLondon is the most expensive place to buy knock-off trainers, jeans and CDs, according to figures released today, with counterfeiters offering slimmer discounts than in other big cities around the world.
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Carola Long: ‘Cropped bootcut jeans sound wrong but, on the body, they make perfect sense’
/ Category: Jean NewsIt’s time to move on from the hoopla about ‘Houlihans’ – those tight combat trousers that gave everyone action-hero thighs. The J Brand jeans to snap up this season are the ‘Gigis’. On paper, the idea of cropped bootcut jeans sounds all wrong; on the body, they make perfect sense.
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Carola Long: ‘Cropped bootcut jeans sound wrong but, on the body, they make perfect sense’