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i had a meeting with a Saks Fifth Avenue contemporary buyer once, and she had asked me if i could put a huge embroidery design on my back pocket. i raised my eyebrows and never called back.

the brown ones are dyed with persimmon.. from fruit grown in a japanese persimmon village or something like that.... where they slay dragons and put them into dungeons for breeding ponies and pigeons..

and selfedge.com for sling and stones women's selvage and dry collections -

denimbaronline.com for sling and stones

they try to be as historically accurate as possible, since they have their own production facility now, they are hand hammering each rivet and burr, with a hammer set on top of an anvil.. as they did back in the 1900's.

when starting my brand, i thought of the same things, but recently i tallied up the totals of how much crap that goes into the earth by making and selling organic jeans - - even though the carbon foot print from shipping my denim back and fourth from vendor to vendor to get an actual jean produced is the same as a non organic jean, i think making 2000 pairs of organic jeans, which equates to roughly 2 tons worth of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers from being sprayed in the air and seeping through top soil is still an important thing to do...

i like stronghold, they are one of the most thought through denim lines in terms of brand identity and story. I've met with both Mike's during a meeting about denims and they are very knowledgable - and they do custom jeans at their store and carry some very very very rare japanese denims from okayama - i.e. persimmon dyed 13oz, coal dyed 14oz, slubby flamed kimono weave selvages - - they are made in america, they opened up their own cut and sew factory, and from what they told me they are also cutting and sewing private label for other brands that people gaga over .. (rrl) .. they really want to revive a brand that did not make it past the depression age to what it was back then, from how it was contruscted and down to the fits and style - you can even buy them with suspenders, which are provided by one of America's oldest suspender company that is still operating. - -

as a label, i think they are extremely detailed compared to other 'premium' l.a. denim labels that pop up everyday. payce

denimbaronline.com has our men's daniels in veggie selvage, david's in sythetic selv. and a wash.. check em' out.

okay, so here are some pictures of my cousin in rachel veggie selvages - she's 5'7" 125, and a stick, doesn't have an ass, she normally wears a 28, but i want to let all u girls know that these jeans will stretch to your normal size and the bottom pictures are what 28's look like, but what 27's would be after wear . hope that made sense. and i'm sure she could squeeze into some 26's but i didn't want my cousin to suffer..

the images on top are a size 27

images below are 28

i'll post up a picture of some selvages after wear and wash to show you what it should look like after a month or so in a few days.

they stretch in the thighs a 1/4 to 1/2 size, and the reason why the thighs are a little tight compared to the waste measurement is because we try to give it a butt lift - - when you squeeze in the thighs a little bit it gives you a little more 'cleft' definition at the point where your butt ends and your thighs begin. i'll post some pictures tonight of my cousin wearing some selvages .

they are made by the same people that does the clothing line da-nang... if that makes a difference.. also one of their old sales rep told me that their aged in 'vintage oak barrels is a lie'.. .. but.. i'm not sure, so don't quote me on that... just heard in the fashion industry rumor mill...

throw on some suspenders on those lindas.. would be hot.

gilded age has a volcano mud wash selvage denim made in japan, stronghold also offers persimmon dyed selvage from kojima, (both are brown) and i believe a few japanese labels both use these fabrics in their lines, not sure which labels though -

again....felix hernandez.....

1 hitter complete game shut out, last year's sports illustrated cover should have been done this year.

^^ i miss this place..

the guy that owns this store also owns a mill in kojima that i get my denim from for my line. he absolutely sold his life and soul to denim, its history and everything else in between. he even built his own shuttle loom using wood. pretty much bananas....

most of the cotton coming out of texas is upland cotton which is non-els. and a small percentage of texas' cotton is e.l.s. american pima. and it is projected for 2007 that e.l.s. for Texas will have a lower output then previous years... maybe cattle find e.l.s cottons tastier than non els?

sevens and true religion is the epitome of high quality denim.. for only 180 usd you can have yours

don't do it, it'll ruin your life --

felix hernandez ......

its in swedish or something --

lms, how many t shirts do u want to produce?

here is the trailer link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4INGMPPrUa0

since we are on the subject, there is a great documentary going around about a film maker going to china for the last 4 years to document the working conditions of a chinese denim factory, called china blue, it is appearing on pbs every now and then --

http://www.argotpictures.com/ChinaBlue.html

Sugarcane SC40285 Size 30 spot on fit.

this looks like the same fabric gilded age uses for their volcano mud wash from okayama.. is it?