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Why Japan Makes Cooler Jeans Than America
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- cLeEOGPw 11y agoPlease don't post articles that require sign in.
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- dang 11y agoThis question is settled on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. Articles behind paywalls are ok as long as the paywall has a workaround. Comments helping people read an article are ok. Generic paywall complaints are off topic.
- colinshark 11y agoIt's not settled. These links are annoying.
- dang 11y agoI didn't say everyone agreed—that's clearly not the case. But we've made the decision and you can read about our reasoning at that link. Yes, the paywalls are annoying, but HN would be much poorer without any articles from those publications, and that's more important. Hence the site policy is: (1) if there's a standard workaround, then posting them is ok, (2) flagging them for that reason alone is an abuse of flagging, and (3) comments generically complaining about this are off topic.
- gkanai 11y agoThe top result should be accessible without sign in https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=Prep+Yourself&oq=Prep+Yourself&gs_l=news-cc.3...284.284.0.656.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.2 https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0....
- satuim 11y agoThe real MVP
- bigbugbag 11y agoIs there an alternative for those who keep google out of their internet ?
- glennsl 11y agoSpoof the referrer header, so as to pretend you were sent by Google. I use the "Referrer Control" extension for Chrome (which probably isn't an option for you, but I'm sure there are similar extensions for Firefox) with a permanent rule to spoof the referrer header for wsj.com. Works like a charm.
- cooper12 11y agoThis reminded me of this story I read on HN which also talks about how Japan refined American culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580032. Very interesting subject, especially with regards to how we equate foreign with hip, and how the old becomes new again.
- Steko 11y agoI found this narrative about how pivotal this one moment in the 60's and the centrality of preppy fashion to be more than a little forced. And some parts bordered on misleading like: > The Japanese helped fetishize vintage Levi’s in the 1990s, just as Americans were chopping them off to make jorts. Then, when the clothes they wanted became too expensive, the Japanese started making their own selvedge denim, I picked up 2 pairs of Edwin jeans last month in Japan, they're great but the company has been making jeans since the 50's and using high quality selvedge denim since the early 60's.
- wdavidmarxy 11y agoHi I'm the author of Ametora. From everything I have researched, Edwin appears to have fudged their timeline quite a bit, claiming to do a lot of things years before there's any proof that any Japanese makers were doing it. I wrote something here about trying to reconstruct the exact timeline: http://www.heddels.com/2015/10/who-made-japans-first-jeans/ http://www.heddels.com/2015/10/who-made-japans-first-jeans/ They may have imported some (low quality) selvedge denim in the 1960s because a lot of denim was still selvedge (at least on one side of the cuff), but no one made the slubby, selvedge denim Japan is famous for in any sort of serious quantity until the late-1980s. No Japanese companies made jeans-grade denim at all until 1973.
- Steko 11y agoThanks for the reply and very informative link, I hadn't considered that the Edwin corporation marketing department might just be full of crap!