Soap Nuts – Denham’s New Way to Wash Jeans
Watch out, Woolite Dark, Denham is marching in on your turf! The Amsterdam based brand introduced a new campaign for washing your jeans–Soap Nuts. They may look new to you but hippies have been...
View ArticleRed Wing Heritage Postman 6-Inch Boot
Back in the day, civil service workers had to do a lot of walking–postmen had to walk their mail route, cops had to walk their beat. Such activity required a shoe that could keep up with its wearer but...
View ArticleSelf Edge “Lost Island” Summer 2015 Lookbook
Denim retail institution Self Edge is back with a seasonal lookbook of their summer offerings. It’s a little denim light for the retailer known for its stock of heavyweights like Iron Heart and The...
View ArticleNYC Market Week Spring Summer 16: Capsule Show
Welcome to the latest of our biannual installments from New York City’s Market Week! If you’ve read this site for more than about 6 months, then you know that this is just one stop on a worldwide tour...
View ArticleNYC Market Week Spring Summer 16: Liberty Fairs
We’re back with more from New York’s Spring/Summer 16 Market Week. Yesterday, we showed you everything we saw at the Capsule show, and today we’re taking you through the floors of Liberty Fairs. Read...
View ArticleNYC Market Week Spring Summer 16: MAN, Kingpins, and Blue in Green
Prepare your eyeballs for the final installment from this summer’s New York Market Week. We’ve already gone over what we saw at the Capsule and Liberty Fairs shows, not it’s time to finish it off. In...
View ArticleRogue Territory x Blue Owl Beach Washed Expedition Jeans
Have you ever wondered what jeans washed in the Pacific Ocean would feel like but never had the chance to do so yourself? Well you’re in luck! The folks at Seattle’s Blue Owl Workshop have teamed up...
View ArticleCone Mills Denim Celebrates 110 Year Anniversary
Cone Mills has come a long ways since that first spool of bobbin thread came off the line in April of 1905. Just a decade later they began producing fabric for American denim giant Levi’s, and now...
View ArticleThe Worst of Raw Denim – Volume 2
Here at Rawr Denim, we work very hard to bring you the best of what the worlds of raw denim and heritage clothing have to offer. But in order to do that, we have to wade through a lot of crap. Most of...
View ArticleTanner Goods Salt and Pepper Collection
The new collection from Tanner Goods is all about salt, pepper, and dust. Lots of dust. A glimpse at their lookbook may trigger an asthma attack, but it does demonstrate the the durability of their...
View ArticleKapital’s Fall / Winter ’15 Lookbook – Route E10 Lappland
If there’s one thing Kapital is known for beyond their clothing it’s their incredibly produced lookbooks. From “Peace Pilgirms”, to “Deniming for Sunken Treasure”, to “Sailor Ninjas”, the Kapital crew...
View ArticleStudio D’Artisan D1672 WWI Model Jeans
When it comes to war reenactment jeans, WWII gets all the attention. Denimheads flirt and fawn over the atypical 1944 Levi’s 501–what with it’s olive drab pocket bags, painted on arcuates, and laurel...
View ArticleLightning Magazine’s Denim Indigo Style Reference Guide
As anyone who’s ever wandered into a bookstore in Tokyo will tell you, the Japanese have an intense obsession with cataloging, indexing, and filing away. Well the same people who put together Japanese...
View ArticleSelvedge Khaki Chinos – Five Plus One
Five Plus One is our weekly series of buyer’s guides. We pick a specific category and dig up five great options along with one that’s a little outside the norm. Many of us have come to expect selvedge...
View ArticleLiberty Fairs Las Vegas Spring Summer ’16 Roundup Pt. 1
We don’t usually double up on the coverage from each tradeshow season, but this one was a little different. As you may have seen, Gerald and I did some work in New York just last month covering all of...
View ArticleLiberty Fairs Las Vegas Spring Summer ’16 Roundup Pt. 2
We’re back with the second and final update from Liberty Fairs Las Vegas. If you missed anything from yesterday, be sure to check it out here and get caught up! As mentioned, we don’t usually double up...
View ArticleDear Jean Denim Advice – Fading, Ocean Washes, and Hemming
Raw denim and quality clothing in general aren’t the most intuitive of subjects. If they were, there would be no need for sites like ours to exist. We do our best to cover a wide swath of the most...
View ArticleNew Naked & Famous Fabrics – Okayama Spirit II, Elephant 5, and Coffee Denim
Whether you’re an intense denimhead, a casual fan, or you just want something weird Naked & Famous has the jeans you are looking for. The brand is currently going on six fits that they do up in...
View ArticleFifthrequisite Jeans – Thai Raw Denim
“Eat, Drink, Sleep, Sex”, those are the four main needs of a human being according to Thai raw denim brand Fifthrequisite. There is, however, another requirement; a fifth requisite, if you will. And...
View ArticleFade Friday – Iron Heart 25oz. Mega Beatle Buster (2 years 3 months, 0 washes)
Some call him Swiss Jeans Freak, some call him Jeansus, we simply call him Ruedi. Ruedi Karrer is a 56-year-old geologist from Zurich and he is probably the most devoted raw denim fan fading today. If...
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