A paradigmatic shift in denim fashion is upon us. After years of low-cut skinny-jean dominance, a new era of high-waisted jeans is coming. You cannot stop the tide from turning; your only choice is how to cope.
A hilarious Goldman Sachs analysis of the outlook for hip youth clothing (and sometimes bedbug
For over a hundred years, U.S. dollars have been printed on a unique cotton blend paper made using scraps of denim sold in bulk by the garment industry. In fact, about 30 percent of the cotton used in our money$ came from leftover denim (the rest coming from a variety of other textile wastes). It was all fine and dandy …
Opening Ceremony is known for being really fashion forward, but sometimes it's so forward that, like Thelma and Louise, it goes too far and just drives right off the cliff resulting in a total wreck. Case in point: these friggin' pants.
Sometimes when you mix two things that don't naturally go together, you get something magical—like salty caramels or a mule. But sometimes things go terribly wrong, and you end up with a hideous mutant. That is exactly what happened here, with this unholy combination of cargo shorts and a denim waist. (They're so ugly…
Who will mourn the death of sandblasted jeans? Very few people, hopefully, as it's the year 2012 and nobody should be rocking distressed denim anymore, but also because the process workers use to make jeans look fashionably worn-in is horrible for their health — sandblasters end up breathing in a large amount of…
A station in Philadelphia has been re-running the '80s teen dance show Dancin' on Air, and this video captured by FourFour blogger (and Pot Psychologist) Rich Juzwiak shows what we're missing by living in a time when head to toe denim is neither encouraged nor acceptable. Sadly, one can no longer purchase suspender…
Today's date is a monumental one for members of the 5,000 weirdo strong Corduroy Appreciation Club. After all, 11/11/11 is the date that most resembles their beloved fabric.
Sometimes marketing is so absurd that I am tied into knots trying to understand how an advertisement could possibly have been made and set loose into the world. Like this ad for Zappos, sent in by Cheryl S., that claims it sells jeans in "fits for every body type":
A Levi's ad has the word "ass" in it. Old Navy said "booty." And someone "referred to his hindquarters as ‘butt'" in an ad. America's decency is going to shit.
Meet Obama Jeanswear, Rwanda's denim tribute to the POTUS. Says Racked, "We love how Obama Jeanswear creatively re-interprets the seal of the United States into something a little more imperial, flanking a shield with griffins and whatnot." [Racked]
Today, the Times deplores men's "mom jeans." My initial thought was, who cares? Then I saw that professional I'm-Not-Even-Trying-Anymore crank Liz Jones had declared that she "can't stand men who wear baseball caps," so, probably her. But, seriously, non-crazies:
The next generation of maternity jeans: Denim Therapy will transform your favorites into expectant with the use of some artful elastic paneling. Of course, they're then permanently maternity, but whatevs. [Inventor-Spot]
It was probably inevitable: gyms have started offering a "Skinny Jeans Workout, specifically designed to get rid of those annoying little bulges and bumps" that interfere with the line of a skintight, circulation-impairing, unflattering pair of pants. [CNN]
And I'm just gonna go there: were they really that bad? The Washington Post's Robin Givhan says yes.
