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.
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N.C. Company Handcrafts Artisan Jeans In Raleigh
Staff at Evolution Surf in Dunsborough are calling for people to dig out their old denim and donate to the homeless for the Volcom Give Jeans a Chance campaign.
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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.
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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