Tag: selvage
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Quoc Pham and Outlier: Shirts and Shoes For The Weekend Tourist
A few years ago I became a tailor for Self Edge denim in San Francisco. Through my experience there I learned to appreciate high quality shuttle loom denim that was coming out of Japan. Through working this intimately with denim I learned to ditch polysynthetics and embrace cotton, wool, and leather. Not only do these […]
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New store items: denim pen wraps and more
After a weekend of sewing at Noisebridge, I finally have some new items to this site’s shop page. The coolest of which would be my new pen wraps. These are made out of tailored scraps of Japanese jeans and sexy orange leather. Along the top of each wrap you can see the original factory hem […]
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Indigo Hands Are The Denim’s Plaything
My tailoring gig for Self Edge has been crazy lately. We’ve opened online orders to our chainstitched hemming, and my work load has nearly tripled. I tailored 25 pairs of jeans just yesterday, which left my hands stained with an indigo dye, but also earned me enough to finally purchase a pair of the very […]