The denim store in Kobe, Japan, sells jeans for $350. The store is able to sell a pair of jeans for that price because it's tapped into a Japanese subculture that is obsessed by 1950s Americana.
Continue here: High-End Store Specializes in 1950s-Style Jeans
In its heyday, the textile industry employed 40 percent of North Carolina's work force. Now that employment number is less than one percent. Some companies still do well — they tend to manufacture overseas or specialize in high-tech fabrics. But reporter Laurin Penland has the story of a young company that's thriving by making jeans the old-fashioned way.
Read the original post:
N.C. Company Handcrafts Artisan Jeans In Raleigh
Some at Brigham Young University-Idaho, a Mormon school, say skinny jeans are too risqué for campus wear: students wearing the hip-hugging pants have recently been refused service at the school’s Test Center. The department posted a sign that read “No Skinny Jeans,” and turned away…
Read more here:
Mormon College Takes on Skinny Jeans
Freego Jeans, with nine players coming straight from another game, fought off fatigue in posting a 61-54 win over Cobra Energy Drink in the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup Tuesday at the Adamson University Gym.
Read the rest here:
D-League: Tired Freego remains undefeated, keeps Cobra winless
Blackwater attempts to remain on top of the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup’s team standings when it takes on fellow unbeaten Freego Jeans Thursday at the Arellano University Gym.
More here: Unbeaten Blackwater, Freego clash for Aspirants Cup lead
You know what they say: if you can’t beat ‘em, make fun of them for their lack of masculinity by implying they don’t conform to traditional gender norms! I can’t find any pictures of Luck actually wearing skinny jeans after a bit of quick Googling, so I’m thinking this is just casual bashing of a person who is good at football with a completely irrelevant and baseless charge. You are so cool …
Credit:
PHOTO: USC Fans Impugn Andrew Luck’s Fashion Sense With ‘Skinny Jeans’ Sign
The Alex Nuyles-Roider Cabrera tandem towed Freego Jeans to a 72-56 win over Pharex in Tuesday’s PBA D-League at San Juan Gym.
Read more:
Nuyles, Cabrera tow Freego to 72-56 win over Pharex
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.
Levi Strauss is set to release a new line of women’s jeans this fall, with three different form-fitting cuts. It’s the iconic company’s first attempt to cater to curvy women in years, and an attempt to capture a chunk of the multibillion-dollar fashion-denim market. Michele Norris talks to Robin Ghivan, Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion writer for the Washington Post.
More here: Levis To Launch Form-Fitting Women’s Line
Recession or no, kids keep growing. Families broke open their piggy banks this weekend to buy scho