Tag: denim
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Brave Star Selvage Denim
Just as the antithesis of fast food is slow food, the denim gear from Brave Star Selvage is the opposite of fast fashion. Slow fashion, like Brave Star Selvage, approaches the production process from a more mindful perspective, considering the ethics and sustainability of every step of the supply chain. This also means that slow…
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Brave Star Selvage Denim Update
A little more than a year ago I received my super-heavy Brave Star Selvege jeans. A pair of jeans made from a 21.5 ounce denim. For perspective, my unwashed “Rigid” denims from Levi’s are made from something like a 12 ounce denim. My Brave Stars are nearly twice as heavy as any of my Levi’s.…
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Brave Star Selvage; Day One of Fade Friday
I bought a new pair of dungarees! I bought a pair of heavy weight selvage* denim jeans from Brave Star Selvage. My new Brave Star Selvage jeans are made from a 21.5 ounce sanforized denim that is made on the classic Cone Denim looms located in White Oak North Carolina. Brave Star jeans are stitched…
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Selvedge Denim – What Is It?
Over the next few days I will be taking some time off to be with family and friends so I will not be posting as much about my adventures and such. Instead I will be sharing some really interesting readings from around the interweb. Today’s reading is about selvedge denim – just what is selvedge…
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Gustin Premium Menswear
In January I went online and purchased a pair of jeans from Gustin Premium Menswear. And just this week I received them. You would be justified in thinking WTF – you ordered them in January and receive them in March? Well that is because Gustin does a crowdsourcing form of retail. What they do is…
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The Value of Artisan Produced Goods
There is a movement, a resurgence of manufacturing taking place in North America. The resurgence is taking place with small mom and pop type shops. This is a movement away from massive factories with hundreds of workers chained (figuratively speaking, of course) to machines. People like Railcar Fine Goods – makers of fine denim wear.…