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Solidwolfmantis: /* A List of Recommended Brands */

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‎A List of Recommended Brands

98.177.212.172 at 22:07, 20 July 2014

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203.97.108.26: /* $300&UP */

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‎$300&UP

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 ====Under $100====
 *GAP*
 *Uniqlo*

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	[http://www.denimology.com/ Denimology]		[http://www.denimology.com/ Denimology]

		+	[http://scout.rawrdenim.com/ Scout] Rawr Denim's "Scout" service. Useful for finding specific kinds of denim and exact measurements.

	'''Shops'''		'''Shops'''

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 *Flat Head $335 Made in Japan, Japanese denim
 *Dior $390+
 ==Resources and Retailers:==

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 *Unbranded $78+, Made in Macau of Japanese denim
 *J.Crew* $96+
 (*Generally not raw or selvedge)
 ====$100-200====
 *Williamsburg Garment Company $105+, Made in the USA and imported styles, Japanese denim
 *April 77 $130+

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	===Selvedge and Raw===		===Selvedge and Raw===

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 Nowadays, most jeans are made using fabric produced on wide projectile looms. These looms produce more fabric more quickly and use less cotton per square yard. The fabric doesn't "complete" the way that selvedge fabric does, and thus the outseam needs to be sewn to prevent fraying.
-The renewed popularity or raw, selvege denim stemmed from a heritage movement that sought to make jeans with the tools and with the same level of quality that denim lovers expected for decades before modern manufacturing caused a shift to cheap, foreign made denim.  As a result, selvedge and raw became standards for companies trying to create an authentic product that respected the history of the garment.
+The renewed popularity or raw, selvege denim stemmed from a heritage movement that sought to make jeans with the tools and with the same level of quality that denim lovers expected for decades before modern manufacturing caused a shift to cheap, foreign made denim.  As a result, selvedge and raw became standards for high end denim and companies trying to create an authentic product that respected the history of the garment.
 Companies have tried to cash in on this trend by producing inexpensive versions of raw or selvedge jeans (most notably Converse and Uniqlo) with mixed results.  While being raw and selvedge imparts unique properties to a pair of jeans, the heritage movement has always been about quality, something cheap alternatives simply don't supply.
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 ====Hemming====
-Raw denim usually comes with very long inseams. If they're longer than you want, you can simply have them hemmed (this will cost anywhere between $5-25 depending on the tailor and the type of hem (that $25 price would be a chain stitch from Self Edge).  Remember that even if your jeans are sanforized you might still see some shrinkage when you wash (in some cases up to 2" in length).  Some people recommend waiting until after the first wash before soaking, but honestly you can just have them hemmed and leave yourself a little wiggle room (say, take the seam down to a 32" if what you really want is a 30".  Washing in cold water and line drying will further reduce the chances of unwanted shrinkage.
+Raw denim usually comes with very long inseams. If they're longer than you want, you can simply have them hemmed (this will cost anywhere between $5-25 depending on the tailor and the type of hem).  Remember that even if your jeans are sanforized you might still see some shrinkage when you wash (in some cases up to 2" in length).  Some people recommend waiting until after the first wash to hem their jeans, but honestly you can just have them hemmed and leave yourself a little wiggle room (say, take the seam down to a 32" if what you really want is a 30").  Washing in cold water and line drying will further reduce the chances of unwanted shrinkage.
 Some people like the extra inseam, though, to cuff or create mad stacks.  Ultimately it's personal preference.

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 ===Selvedge and Raw===
-[[File:Selvedge2.jpg|thumb|300px|right|]]
+[[File:Selvedge2.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[http://toddshelton.com/blog/jeans/selvage-denim Inseam on selvedge and nonselvedge jeans from Todd Shelton.]]]
-[[File:Selvedge1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Selvedge and non selvedge denim.]]
+[[File:Selvedge1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[http://toddshelton.com/blog/jeans/selvage-denim Selvedge and non selvedge denim.]]]
-[[File:Selvedge3.jpg|thumb|200px|right|]]
+[[File:Selvedge3.jpg|thumb|300px|right|]]
 The two are often confused or conflated for one another, but "raw" and "selvedge" are two fundamentally different properties of denim (and, more broadly, of fabric).  "Selvedge" refers to the ''type of fabric'' that the jeans are made with, whereas "raw" denotes the ''unwashed state'' of the jeans (that is, the jeans haven't been washed after the color treatment process during production).  The telltale sign of jeans made with selvedge denim is the so-called "selvedge line" or white taping that runs down the outseam on the inside of a pair of jeans (see pic on right).  Raw jeans, on the other hand, can be identified by their uniform, dark indigo color and the stiffness of their fabric.