Made In Usa Denim Jeans

Biannual expo connects textile suppliers and buyers, offering one single ...

P roduced by Atlanta-based Messe Frankfurt Inc. — the U.S. subsidiary of international exhibition organizer Messe Frankfurt GmbH — in partnership with cellulosic fiber manufacturer Lenzing AG, Austria, Texworld USA integrates Lenzing's Innovation Asia, a fabrics trade fair formerly held in parallel with the international fabric shows in New York City. Texworld USA debuted in July 2006 in New York City, and since then, the show has been held biannually in January and July. Its eleventh edition will take place July 19-21, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. Touted by Messe Frankfurt as the largest apparel fabrics show in North America, Texworld USA presents an international business platform for apparel fabric buyers, R&D and product development specialists, designers, manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, merchandisers, trading companies and sourcing professionals. Product groups to be presented include cotton, denim, embroidery, fibers, functional fabrics, knits, lace, linen, prints, silk, silky aspects, wool and findings/trims. End-use groups include activewear, childrens/infantwear, juniorwear, ladieswear, bridal/ special occasion/cocktail, menswear, sportswear and swimwear/lingerie. Messe Frankfurt has partnered with The Sub-Council of Textile Industry, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT-TEX) to produce two additional shows that colocate annually with the summer edition of Texworld USA: the International Apparel Sourcing Show (APP) and the Home Textiles Sourcing Expo (HTSE). The shows debuted alongside Texworld USA in July 2010, and altogether, the three shows drew 459 exhibitors and 5,013 visitors. APP is focused on the production supply chain for contract manufacturing, private label and original design manufacturing. Product groups include childrenswear, womenswear, menswear and activewear; knits, wovens, denim/jeans, collections, suiting and contemporary; intimates/lingerie and loungewear/sleepwear. The inaugural show hosted 108 exhibitors from eight countries, and more than 1,000 attendees. HTSE is the only U.S. event focused solely on the sourcing of fabrics and finished soft goods for home applications, according to Messe Frankfurt.

Waldo Jaquith - On trying to buy American-made jeans: A success story.

Buying American-made goods was the stuff of lower-middle-class union members, salt of the earth types. Then the nineties came and went, and not many people cared about buying American-made goods. Manufacturing went south to Mexico, and then across the Pacific to China and southeast asia. It’s made a comeback in the past few years, but without TV commercials or underwriting from American manufacturers. That’s because there basically aren’t any. It’s welled up for a bunch of reasons: distrust of foreign goods, concern for unemployment in the US, a desire for higher quality materials, and plain old nostalgia.

I’ve tried to buy locally for more than a decade now. Not everything, not all of the time, but a lot.

It’s easy to source food locally. My milk and cream comes from Homestead Creamery. My bread is from Albemarle Baking Company. My meat comes from a local butcher, who buys it from a few local producers. My flour comes from Wades Mill. For the next six months, a lot of my fruit and vegetables will come from our garden. We make a lot of our own butter, pasta, ice cream. Our eggs come from our chickens. And so on.

It was trickier when building our house last year. We were able to source some materials locally-ish—for example, the windows are from Roanoke, the wood flooring is from Madison and southwest Virginia, the light fixtures were hand-blown in West Virginia—but good luck getting local 2x4s, Ethernet, pipe, or drywall. Almost all of it was, at least, American-made.

My white whale, though, is jeans. American-made jeans fall into one of two camps. First are the cheap ones: $30/pair, advertised in the sizes of “S,” “M,” “L,” and “XL.” Second are the expensive ones: $300/pair, handmade in Williamsburg by a hipster collective, each pair hand-distressed by a trustafarian who drags them behind his fixie during his weekend job as a bike messenger. I do not want to buy either of these. I want a few decent pairs of jeans that will not need to be incorporated into my mortgage, but that are made in the U.S. with American-made denim by a company that is likely to exist next week.

Enter Todd Shelton . The Jersey City company sells shirts, pants, vests, t-shirts, and jeans . I ordered a pair of Watts Washed Jeans last fall, for $99. More than I’d ever spent on a pair of jeans, but as much as I’m willing to spend for good-quality, American-made, boot-cut jeans. I received a prompt e-mail confirmation from Todd Shelton. Not the company—from Todd, personally. He wrote a bit later to say that he was backordered on that style, and it would be a few weeks. To apologize, he sent me—entirely unnecessarily—a long-sleeved t-shirt, which I’ve worn about once a week since.

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