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    Denim Japan - Denim Italy

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    from sum article,maybe sum of u hv read it.This is just for info.

    -Little did jeans manufacturers know 20 years ago that the future of their industry was actually in the past, namely, in disused shuttle looms. Japanese denim producers, too, could not have envisioned their meteoric rise to the top of the high-end jeans market when they dusted off the long-forgotten equipment all those years ago, searching as they were for a way to make authentic vintage jeans. But rise they did as a growing number of consumers started to share their passion for old-style jeans.

    Entrepreneur Yoshiyuki Hayashi was 31 when he launched the Denime brand in 1988. His goal was to recreate the classic American jeans from the 1950s. Hayashi's obsession led him to Okayama Prefecture, a traditional cotton weaving area also known for its indigo dying and denim production. He asked numerous textile makers whether they could produce a denim of unusual quality-rough, stiff and shrinks when washed-opposed to the smooth, even-textured jeans that populated the market at the time. His fortunes turned when he found Shinya, a textile maker located in Ibara, whose then president Masahiro Sato suggested recreating the garments using a shuttle loom collecting dust in the corner of his shop. Such looms nearly became obsolete after jeans exploded onto the fashion scene in Japan in the 1970s, ushering in the use of more efficient looms.

    Sato restored his shuttle loom and experimented until he finally reproduced a denim that matched a sample given to him by Hayashi. Hayashi and Sato were not alone in their quest to create the perfect pair of vintage jeans. The 1980s saw a surge of interest in vintage jeans, which attracted a number of enterprising individuals to the scene, including Shigeharu Tagaki, who designed jeans for the Studio D'Artisan brand in 1982 and is considered one of the architects behind today's vintage jeans fad. He recalls how difficult it was at the time to get started.

    "We would hear about a shuttle loom, but then it would turn out to be a machine that could only produce kimono fabric," the 58-year-old said. "And when we finally found a real one, the owners would say, `We'll only accept orders of a minimum 3,000 meters.'" Another pioneer in the field, Mikiharu Tsujita, 38, established the Fullcount brand in 1992. Through the mediation of textile maker Collect Co. of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Tsujita also tapped Shinya for denim. Collect's managing director, Masahiro Suwaki, says making the denim for brands like Fullcount was a labor of love that paid off in the end. "Textile producers had to revive the techniques they had discarded in the name of efficiency during a prolonged downturn," said Suwaki. "It was hard, but we learned a lot about high-end denim manufacturing."

    Hidehiko Yamane, who founded the Evisu brand, shares the obsession for quality vintage jeans. "I wanted to make classy jeans using only domestic resources," he said. After recreating the fabric's vintage textures, the pioneers went on to produce the faded look of well-worn jeans. Sable Co. in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, developed functioning models of the body from the hips down that literally wear the jeans to ensure that wrinkles-and the discoloration-appear in places such as the joints that are first to fade naturally. By the mid-1990s, Japanese jeans started to find a following at home and abroad, despite being priced at over 20,000 yen a pair.

    The interest soon prompted other denim producers to revive shuttle looms, including major manufacturers, and the techniques that originated in Japan are now a global standard. One stroke of luck for the Japanese producers was that jeans makers in the United States lacked not only shuttle looms but the skilled workers to operate such machinery, as the country had shifted to mass-production much earlier than Japan. That meant Japanese textile makers were well-positioned to reap the fruit of their labor. After taking over Shinya from his father in 1996, Yoshiaki Sato sold all the high-tech looms at his p

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    Denim Japan - Denim Italy

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    thanxs for d info,paul n ring ring(being waiting for your comment actually).

    Most denim maker in japan produce selvage denim/dry denim-maybe the trend is more toward.

    life begin at 180 kmh,many men dies but not many really live

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    Recent Purchases. . .

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    its true its authentic n real,jatujak one of the most popular secondhand place in south east asia.And yes they also sell fake but they will tell u if u ask.Japanese/malaysian/singapore denim collector r their main customer.All the stuff is neatly hang by their section n r choosed by grade before going to display.icon_smile_approve.gif

    life begin at 180 kmh,many men dies but not many really live

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    Most sought after vintage jeans

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    Can all the jeans/denim expert list 5 or 10 the most sought after vintage jeans,

    this is my list:

    1.Levis Big E range

    2.Lee rider

    3.Wrangler Blue bell

    4.Union Made jeans

    5.evis 2504

    6.Helmut Lang

    also list the price beside it if u know,let the quest begin.

    Tq.

    life begin at 180 kmh,many men dies but not many really live

    Edited by pclife on Nov 24, 2005 at 04:42 AM

    Edited by pclife on Nov 24, 2005 at 12:06 PM

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    45rpm blue cafe

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    Anyone know about this 45rpm jeans series?

    Anyone own them?

    They say its the only model in 45rpm that have R red stitch on the back pocket.

    How much is it.

    life begin at 180 kmh,many men dies but not many really live

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    Selvedge Denim

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    2 of my red ear selvedge.

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    Edited by pclife on Sep 18, 2005 at 08:15 PM

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    My fav selvedge jeans - Evisu,Levis,Lee,wrangler n sum japanese denim.

    Edited by pclife on Sep 18, 2005 at 08:23 PM

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    Evisu is still loved!

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    i think u rite TM,many thanks to u.Oldies evisu still rule in term of qualities,i think this one is the first produce since the hidden tab is scovill stamp not evisu and the front copper is star craft&co.Produce maybe in early 90'.

    life begin at 180 kmh,many men dies but not many really live

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    Evisu is still loved!

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    thank you for replying,those jeans r still in deep blue color.i search the net ,that pair is hard to find and they dont produce it anymore.Is that why this jeans become exspensive?which model/lot is better than this one? theres also this kind of jeans at an online auction in hongkong and japan.i ll keep track of this one.icon_smile_cool.gif

    life begin at 180 kmh,many men dies but not many really live

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