Material and origin Material information: Original dry denim 13.6 oz, indigo rope dyed and starch paste, cotton from Memphis, USA Material origin: Ibara, Okayama Prefecture Material equipment: Old-style loom Manufacturing origin: Odate, Akita Prefecture Manufacturing equipment: Union Special
13.6oz Dry Denim This 13.6 oz denim is made on an old shuttle loom in Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, a famous denim production area in Japan. It is made by analyzing denim materials from the 1940s, using American Memphis cotton and starch paste made from corn, and is characterized by a heat treatment in which the entire fabric is baked in an oven after weaving. This is an original manufacturing method for Deluxe Wear that reproduces the manufacturing methods and environment of those times.
Message from the planner <br>When recreating something from the past, many people say, "There's nothing we can't do in this age of advanced technology, right?" Before I started this job, I worked daily digging out vintage jeans from mountains of tens of thousands of pairs of jeans in a short space of time, and at the time, I thought, like many others, that "the technology will recreate it." However, the results were different. It was an era when technology was still in the process of development, and the raw materials and ingredients, the handmade quality, the equipment that was all mechanical without computer control or semiconductors, and above all, the quality consciousness on the part of the manufacturing side, which came with the fact that clothing had a much greater value to people than it does now, have all "improved" to the present day through quality improvements and technological advances, for better or worse. When I say reproduction, I mean preparing the environment of that time for the present day. In other words, it is more important to "prepare" than to "create."
The concept of the 1953XX is to faithfully reproduce the equipment used by DELUXEWARE to manufacture the jeans. I don't really like the arch on the bottom of the back pocket (this is a matter of personal preference), so I haven't stocked these jeans since the renewal of the brand. However, I was tempted to see the puckering and fit of the parts that were reproduced exactly using the equipment at the time, so I finally got them in stock.
