Motor City Denim jeans, by metro Detroit designer Joe Faris, are headed to stores. The line already is available at Caruso Caruso in Birmingham. And on Aug. 18, it’s scheduled to show up at Bachrach stores at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi and the Somerset Collection in Troy.
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Georgea Kovanis: Metro Detroiter Joe Faris brings his Motor City jeans to stores
In the ’70s you had your bellbottoms and in the ’80s your tight designer jeans. In the ’90s, you went from distressed grungy to dressy denim, and then came the skinny-jean revolution in the 2000s.
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Michigan is encouraging companies to look beyond the auto industry to help the state thrive. So one supplier who specializes in making protective cloth coverings for the robots used in auto plants is expanding into the fashion world — producing blue jeans inspired by the Motor City.
Finding jeans that fit correctly, hide flaws and don’t put your underwear on parade with every move remains one of life’s great challenges. Women are constantly on the search for denim that slims, trims, lengthens and makes them look like they simply slipped the jeans on with ease, rather than getting greased up and stuffed in.
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In a midtown Manhattan showroom, fashion blogger Amelia Pontes picked up a pair of “jeggings” (jeans tight enough to be leggings) from a table filled with trendy jeans in boot cut, boyfriend and skinny styles.
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Russell Yost is man enough to wear skinny jeans. “I look like I’m hiding in baggy jeans,” said Yost, 20, a Columbia College student in Chicago. He used to wear boot-cuts and shied away from skinny jeans until nearly a year ago.
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The weekend is when you kick off your shoes, put on your jeans — and fling your diet out the window, right? The problem is that once you loosen the reins, it’s easy to lose control. To keep that from happening, try these stay-strong strategies for every situation.
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