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Students of the 60-year-old community college at Jayanagar have alleged that they were beaten up for not following the dress code imposed by the college secretary. Four students (names withheld) said that they had gone to college at 10 am yesterday and were stopped by the college secretary from entering class because they were wearing T-Shirts and denim pants.
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Students bashed up for wearing jeans to college?
Students of the 60-year-old community college at Jayanagar have alleged that they were beaten up for not following the dress code imposed by the college secretary. Four students (names withheld) said that they had gone to college at 10 am yesterday and were stopped by the college secretary from entering class because they were wearing T-Shirts and denim pants.
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Students bashed up for wearing jeans to college?
Levi’s has embarked upon quite the campaign to raise awareness about waste in the production and washing of jeans. Take the dyeing process alone: One pair of jeans requires a remarkable 42 liters of water just to turn that distressed shade of blue. Last year, Levi’s hosted a contest that asked for ideas from their audience about how they could handwash and dry their jeans to reduce their …
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The 2012 edition of the Ford Focus might just be made with your old pants. The car maker will use recycled cotton from blue jeans for new interiors, Forbes reports: “Each new Ford Focus will have roughly two pairs of average-sized American jeans in it. The recycled blue jeans will be used as both sound absorption material and carpet backing. The recycled cotton is just one of several recycled …
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MIDVALE, Idaho — He almost blushes as he pulls out the knife he keeps in his jeans pocket — a folding knife…
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As part of its Ready to Work campaign, the Levi’s jeans company, a partner of GOOD, has invested in the urban renewal taking place in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The struggling rust belt city that lost most of its population after its steel industry collapsed now finds itself on the precipice of new era, with an emerging creative class and a fledgling crop of sustainable industries. This is a look …
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Earlier today, we posted about a pavilion built from outdated Speedos . Last week, Cool Hunting spotlighted a similar effort on the part of Levi Strauss & Co., which used recycled denim to insulate their renovated San Francisco headquarters. Throughout the building, as a testimony to the innovative nature of its construction materials, designers installed plexiglass windows that reveal the denim …
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Levi Srauss & Co. is holding a design competition to reduce the carbon footprint of their jeanson the consumer end, at least. The company hired a third party to assess their products’ carbon footprints, and learned that “60 percent of the climate impact comes during the consumer phase,” mostly when using conventional machine dryers after washes. Levi’s Care to Air Design Challenge invites you …
Melbourne : Here’s an instant solution to look 5 kg lighter—grab a pair of “miracle jeans”.Available at 260 dollars in Australia, the jeans, inspired by shapewear undergarments, promise to shape
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