“When Huck Finn put on his patched, faded blue denim overalls to go catfishing, he never dreamed he was anticipating a fashion trend for 1953. “Denim’s revolution is a product of the two-day weekend, the trek to the suburbs, and the increasing informality and casualness of U.S. living. Schoolboys started it, in the 1930s, with […]
Posts Tagged ‘cotton’
Fashion spotlight lands on faded denim
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged cotton, denim, levi strauss, levis, mary shannon, textile mills on November 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Countering cotton with the great black hope
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged blackberries, cotton, salem nc on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“As transportation links improved… between the South and the rest of the nation, it became possible to export blackberries, either fresh or dried, and this possibility joined the legion of other ideas how the region might escape the iron grip of cotton…. “Central North Carolina seems to have found the greatest bonanza…. Salem shipped a […]
Keep Your Cool With The NCC
Posted in From the Stacks, tagged cool, cotton, fabric, North Carolina Collection, sewing, textile industry on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The summertime is in full swing here in Chapel Hill, and like most people I’m running around looking for something to wear that won’t make me pass out from heatstroke in ten minutes or less. A surefire answer, for me at least, has been to make some garments myself. For a quick course in choosing […]
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