Pinto Wash Denim

[andewhall]

I found this somewhere on the net, quite interesting.....

"PINTO WASH DENIM

A product of Cone Mills, USA; said to be the first bleached denim. In 1969, in Greensboro, North Carolina, a hurricane flooded local Cone Mills plants and warehouses. Millions of yards of denim were soaked with water and had to be dried immediately to avoid mildewing. It seemed a catastrophe, but a Cone Mills merchandiser in the New York office came up with an idea: run the fabric irregularly through a solution to remove the dye and give the denim a faded and mottled appearance. Designers, manufacturers and young consumers all jumped on the new product, making Pinto Wash Denim an instant success."

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[denimdestroyedmylife]

huh.

i found the source for this, but elsewhere on the results page i found a nice HISTORY OF CONE MILLS LLC

[white_giraffe]

is related at all to the pinto wash on the nudie kim?

[lithiumsys]

Any pictures of this stuff? I'm having trouble finding it on google.

But it sounds interesting.

[XX]

maybe they just ran the millions of yards of denim through a giant clothes dryer - creating the very first Preshrunk denim!

just kidding

ive read the story about the bleached denim before - if its true itd be really cool to see some of those pairs.