Comfort counts: Brands set out to create stretchy, flattering jeans

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PajamaJeans may be selling out at Wal-Mart, but that doesn’t mean they’re flattering. Yes, they’re comfortable, but so is a bathrobe and a pair of snowman-printed flannel pajamas. They’re cozy but not something you’d wear out to dinner.

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Waterloo’s Hoover Middle School faculty, students pay it forward

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WATERLOO, Iowa — When Hoover Middle School’s faculty dress code changed, leaving them with one day a month to wear jeans, Principal Dan Cox decided this was an opportunity to make a difference.

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University students jump in to help inmates turn jeans to quilts

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When Cory Harlan toured the Jefferson City Correctional Center with his Intro to Criminal Justice class, what he saw sparked an idea. He wanted to be involved somehow in the Restorative Justice Program where he witnessed prisoners creating quilts from donated jeans and fabric. Thus, the Jeans for Justice project was born.

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White Vulcan pumice mine finally to close

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A local pumice mine that boomed when stone-washed jeans were invogue is closing now, a decade after the government bought it outamid public pressure.

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Teen stores in tight spot for back-to-school business

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NEW YORK Half-priced jeans and promotional freebies are already popping up at the mall with the start of school still weeks away. Teen clothing sellers may have had some misplaced optimism about the strength of the economic recovery when orders were placed in the spring, and department stores are armed with hip jeans and fast

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Shadow Dancer back after 8 years

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Seventeen years ago they had messy hair down their backs, theywore tight jeans and an old bread truck lugged around theirguitars.

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Is it worth it?

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Is a $150 pair of jeans a better deal than a $50 pair? Is a$60-per-month gym membership worth it? Should you spend $20 morefor a better coffee maker?

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Fashionable fundraising for Flag High students (Arizona Daily Sun)

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Four parts candy-colored sneakers, two parts taffeta and tulle,one part each distressed jeans and flirty mini-dresses and a dashof sequins were the recipe for Flagstaff High School’s annualstudent-run charity fashion show.

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Fashion strikeouts: High-waist jeans make men ‘undateable’ (Provo Daily Herald)

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Unhappily unattached menfolk of America, that soul patch beneath your lower lip may be discouraging a potential soul mate from sticking around through the salad course of your first date. And the stak

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Be a denim donor (Fort Frances Times)

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The Warehouse One “Jean Trade-In for Charity” continues there until next Sunday (Feb. 28). During this time, customers are encouraged to donate a pair of jeans and receive $10 off on a new pair. All 110 stores across Canada, including the one here in Fort Frances, are accepting jeans from “Denim Donors.” read more

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