SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Well-funded start-up Blue Jeans Network (BJN) came out of stealth mode on Wednesday with a service intended to make video conferences as common as telephone calls.
Continue here: Blue Jeans Network makes video calls a casual fit
Police are investigating the theft of jeans valued at $16,000 from a Cottesloe clothing store.
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Smash and grab for jeans
Police are investigating the theft of jeans valued at $16,000 from a Cottesloe clothing store.
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Smash and grab for jeans
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.
What would happen if you wore the same pair of jeans every day for 15 months without washing them?
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Student wears same jeans for 15 months
When Levi’s washes its jeans, it’s not to get them clean. It’s to make them soft.
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A pair of jeans worn by horse trainer Bart Cummings have fetched $7000 at an auction to raise money for the Children’s Medical Research Institute.
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Bart’s jeans fetch $7000
Perhaps it was because of her checked shirt, stoned-washed jeans, neatly tied scarf or American drawl, but when Californian-born Meja Aldrich arrived at a remote cattle station in the Pilbara everyone called her Texas.
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From green valleys of home to the sticks
The snowboard pants worn by the U.S. team at the Vancouver Olympics were based on one of designer Greg Dacyshyn’s favorite jeans . The creative director of Burton Snowboards says the jeans were printed onto high-tech Gore-Tex fabric using a process called photo-sublimation.
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Olympic Snowboard Pants Inspired By Jeans
Bandung, Indonesia’s fourth biggest city and the capital of West Java, goes by many names – Paris of Java, shopping city, jeans city, textile city, shoe city, flower city, student city and Africa-Asia city.
More here: Bustling Bandung (thewest.com.au)