H.i.s.’s Press-Free Jeans (1966) (via Vintage Ad Browser, via Cottonduck i think?)
“Be a Neatnick”
“Dress-Up Jeans with a permanent crease down the center of each leg…”
“Press-Free Jeans by h.i.s.”
Yes, you’re thinking what I’m thinking… it was the Baby Boomers who killed off quality denim!!
I doubt The Pacific can be as good as Band of Brothers, but I will be watching in 2010 to find out.
Just reading through the Wikipedia article on The Pacific, a lot of the filming has taken place right here in Melbourne. We saw them blocking off Flinders Street stations for a few scenes.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/30/blue.jeans.mill/index.html
Nice article about the Mount Vernon Cotton Mill, one of the few remaining cotton mills in the U.S.. I’m currently reading Rachel Louise Snyder’s book (Fugitive Denim) and this article compliments the current chapter quite well.
via ACL
Levis have a new online game promotion.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/theres-gold-in-them-thar-hills-or-somewhere/
The Levi’s game is named after an imaginary 19th-century figure, Grayson Ozias IV, or G. O. the Fourth – as in “Go Forth” … get it? The “Go Forth” campaign is being created by Wieden & Kennedy in Portland, Ore.
Ozias is described as a friend of a nephew of Levi Strauss, the (real) founder of the Levi’s parent, Levi Strauss & Company; the gold rush drew Strauss to California, where he opened a dry goods business and later sold denim pants.
There will be four phases to the game, which is to conclude in mid-November when a final challenge will be revealed to the 100 finalists who make it through the first three phases. The first of the 100 who figures out the last piece of the puzzle gets to dig up a steel box with the $100,000 inside.
Use the web site for clues: http://goforth.levi.com/fortune
And follow http://twitter.com/GraysonOziasIV on twitter
The Drinkin’ and Dronin’ blog has a feature on the Evisu Deluxe Heritage line
http://drinkinanddronin.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/factory-feature-for-the-evisu-heritage-collection/
These jeans have more detailing than I was aware of.
I didn’t understand the “bluff pocket seam” description, but a bit more googleing got me there.
http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/bluff_pockets/
The pocket is sewn on from the inside, as I believe you can see in the photograph above.
Here are some detailed descriptions and shots of the Evisu Deluxe denim jacket on five-secondskin.
http://five-secondskin.blogspot.com/2008/11/evisu-deluxe-silk-denim-jacket.html
He’s also got the jeans here.
http://five-secondskin.blogspot.com/2009/08/evisu-deluxe-single-neddle-jeans.html
Very nice indeed.
James Cameron wrote a reasonable summary on denim for the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/executive-style/suitsyou/2009/08/25/iconicorigins.html
via Self Edge
… About a fourth of all items available for Japanese customers can be ordered from selected countries through a service called Rakuten International Shipping Services . Non-Japanese users can access Google-translated item pages (24 languages are currently supported), place an order, pay via credit card and then wait for direct delivery from Japan (it’s even possible for foreigners to collect Super Points ).
I’ve never ordered from Rakuten, but it looks like you can search for products from this page:
http://event.rakuten.co.jp/borderless/index_en.html
It looks easy:
http://goforth.levi.com/
Redefine the declaration of independence in your own words, in the spirit of today’s America.
It’s the ultimate mash-up, mixing Nationalism with a Corporate brand.
Whatever! I just like the boots in this pic.