Most indigo denim fades from blue towards white. Teacore changes what sits beneath the indigo: the warp yarns have a brown core. Here’s how that affects fading, how it relates to redcast and greencast, and how KATO puts the idea into practice with its Japanese selvedge denim.
There’s something only super heavyweight selvedge can do to your fades. Here’s what it is, why it happens, and where to start your own journey.
Fashions change, but some pieces refuse to be moved. These 10 rustproof and rugged classics will never go out of style.
The Type III denim jacket is the blueprint for all that followed—and Tellason makes one of the best. Here are 8 ways to wear it all year round.
Double denim can be a statement—or a disaster. These 11 style tips help you avoid rookie mistakes and double denim pitfalls when you wear a denim jacket with selvedge jeans.
Flannels and jeans are a classic combo. This guide shows you how to wear flannels with jeans in 9 practical, style-savvy ways.
In the world of rugged retail, the stakes are high. Here are 10 rules that will help you make sure that every purchase is a meaningful one.
You may have the right pieces in your wardrobe, but are you wearing them right? Here are a few tips to make sure your looks don’t fall flat.
A number of the denim trends identified by style forecasters could help draw newcomers to the world of selvedge. In this article, we look at six of those trends.
They say that jeans go with everything, but some marriages are happier than others. Here are the best and worst colours to wear with raw selvedge jeans.
If you have questions about how to wear selvedge jeans, you’ll find all of the answers in this selvedge denim style FAQ.
Learn how the founders established Tellason as a ‘made in America’ brand, and how they redefined what that means when their denim supplier closed in 2017.
In the third and final episode of our collaboration with Long john and Soorty, we see how the jeans go through the laundry processes to recreate our fades.
In the second episode of our 3-part mini-documentary about how to recreate fades in a more sustainable way at Soorty’s NASDA lab, we make the jeans.
Back in November, Wouter Munnichs and I visited Soorty’s NASDA innovation lab in Turkey to recreate our own worn-in jeans in the most sustainable way possible.
This week on the podcast, Jake and I are joined by Scott Morrison from 3×1 to talk about the travel documentary series, Common Threads, that he’s launching.
In this tenth episode of The Denim & Boots Podcast, Jake and I interview jeans maker and one-man brand, Ben Viapiana of Viapiana Custom Denim, about how jeans are made.
In the sixth episode of the podcast, Jake and I discuss the five stages of making denim, and how they each affect the fades you can expect.
Classic blue jeans have five pockets. Three on the front, two on the back. This preview of a Denim 101 lesson gives a brief introduction to jeans pockets.
Douglas Luhanko has dedicated his life to denim. Last year, together with his partner, Kerstin Neumüller, he published a handbook about indigo in Swedish. Now it’s available in English as well. I’ve talked to the couple about why they wrote the book and what they hope to achieve with it.
