Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs. Unlike their mass-produced cousins, the tough garments ...
I’m quite a Japanese denim fan and have been ordering custom-made Okayama "aka-mimi" (red ears) jeans for decades. For the uninitiated, “red ears” refer to a denim fabric woven with a ...
Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs, reports AFP.
But I recently tested out a nearly-$200 pair of Japanese stretch Selvedge denim that completely debunked the myth I had bought into for so long. I wish it weren't the case, but the experience has ...
KOJIMA, Okayama Prefecture--Denim, that All-American fabric, is all about being Japanese in the town of Kojima, where the main road is named Jeans Street, with real pairs of pants flapping like ...
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