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Speaking of "OKAYAMA" is "JEANS".
The main thing of "JAPANESE JEANS" development history is a splits of artisan in OKAYAMA, and it has been developing from Japan denim industry which date back to Edo period until now.
During the 1960's, Japan is in the high growth period and also TOKYO OLYMPIC GAME came along. At the same time, JEANS was popularised by young Japanese who was able to support themselves. Young Japanese wanted to wear their jeans in a cool way like their screen hero as Jimmy Dean or Keiich Akagi. They were rushing to buy jeans from second hand store. With this demand, Japanese garment industry wanted to produce these JEANS domestically. However,the status proof that Japanese Jeans were far from American Jeans at that time. There are many Japanese jeans maker by 1975, especially in KOJIMA and IBARA area in OKAYAMA, rushing to purchase denim fabric from the USA. At the same time, local weaver realized that Okayama had been the capital of cotton weaves since the Edo Period of Japan.
In 1967, dyeing factory in Okayama succeeded in providing continuous dyeing to improve industrial production based on their traditional natural indigo dyeing technique. In 1970, dyeing factory in HIROSHIMA analyzed construction of American high quality denim and developed the first domestic rope dyeing machine which improved process of rope dyeing system at that time. Their founder's spirit has been bringing the traditional technique such as color and texture into the modern jeans world. Since 1980, the process of ring-spin yarn with rope-dyed which had been omitted by rational minds of the world, still continue in Japanese denim industry by the obsessive Japanese minds. Now, people come back to "Genuine Denim",and the obsessive spirits of Japanese is one of the factor to get high evaluation from the world.
Soon, cotton mills in KURASHIKI expanded spinning facilities for thick yarn count, and they build the first model of domestic heavy ounce denim, and then garment manufacturer in KOJIMA made the first model of genuine domestic jeans in 1973. After that, a need of domestic jeans has been increasing and the production fields of jeans has been formed around west side of Japan, especially at "BIT-TYU" and "BINNGO" area, by the better infrastructure of textile industry.
The main thing of "JAPANESE JEANS" development history is a splits of artisan in OKAYAMA, and it has been developing from Japan denim industry which date back to Edo period until now.
During the 1960's, Japan is in the high growth period and also TOKYO OLYMPIC GAME came along. At the same time, JEANS was popularised by young Japanese who was able to support themselves. Young Japanese wanted to wear their jeans in a cool way like their screen hero as Jimmy Dean or Keiich Akagi. They were rushing to buy jeans from second hand store. With this demand, Japanese garment industry wanted to produce these JEANS domestically. However,the status proof that Japanese Jeans were far from American Jeans at that time. There are many Japanese jeans maker by 1975, especially in KOJIMA and IBARA area in OKAYAMA, rushing to purchase denim fabric from the USA. At the same time, local weaver realized that Okayama had been the capital of cotton weaves since the Edo Period of Japan.
In 1967, dyeing factory in Okayama succeeded in providing continuous dyeing to improve industrial production based on their traditional natural indigo dyeing technique. In 1970, dyeing factory in HIROSHIMA analyzed construction of American high quality denim and developed the first domestic rope dyeing machine which improved process of rope dyeing system at that time. Their founder's spirit has been bringing the traditional technique such as color and texture into the modern jeans world. Since 1980, the process of ring-spin yarn with rope-dyed which had been omitted by rational minds of the world, still continue in Japanese denim industry by the obsessive Japanese minds. Now, people come back to "Genuine Denim",and the obsessive spirits of Japanese is one of the factor to get high evaluation from the world.
Soon, cotton mills in KURASHIKI expanded spinning facilities for thick yarn count, and they build the first model of domestic heavy ounce denim, and then garment manufacturer in KOJIMA made the first model of genuine domestic jeans in 1973. After that, a need of domestic jeans has been increasing and the production fields of jeans has been formed around west side of Japan, especially at "BIT-TYU" and "BINNGO" area, by the better infrastructure of textile industry.