Jean Queen

The man admitted to police he stole the jeans while Christmas shopping for his son, calling it a stupid idea.

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The green movement has gone blue at Paperworks Studio, where recycled denim is turned into handmade greeting cards by workers with special needs and disadvantages. They do the same thing with scrap wool and coffee grounds. A khaki-pant fabric treatment is in the works.

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Blue jeans, green cards grow a Goodwill business

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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Jeans for fall show a wide range of trends, from jeggings to flares

Never flashy but always reliable, John Hiatt keeps delivering the goods on “Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns” ( * * * out of four stars, out Aug. 2 on New West), another collection of evocative, deeply felt songs.

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I was reading Susan Treutler’s April 25 column about the things she misses and doesn’t miss about the past. One thing I found curious was that she missed a time when kids ‘would be grounded if they dared go to church in jeans.’

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Megan Hart: Are blue jeans in church really so bad?

It’s earth week and one Traverse City woman doing some eco-friendly good in the form of stylish sandals.

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Made with Michigan Hands: Jeans Gone Green

I have another brilliant money-making idea: Blue jeans stores for middle-age guys.

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Blue jeans stores and middle-age guys don’t mix

In better days, newly elected governors were welcomed into office with star-studded galas, serenades by rock bands, even an NFL stadium transformed into a winter wonderland.

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Life is not without risk: The stock market. Internet dating. Jeggings. Jeggings are stretchy denim leggings — jeans and leggings, get it? — that have the potential to replace skinny jeans. And they’re one of three fall trends that will look fabulous on you or very, very unfortunate on you; there is no in-between.

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Shake up status quo with jeggings, fur