Tag Archives : Denim

24/03/2024

Garmology podcast: Vintage Jeans and Coffee Dreams: A Conversation with Inger Kristin Haugsevje (#142)

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Join us on today’s podcast journey to Oslo, a city close to home for me, where we sit down with Inger Kristin Haugsevje to explore the world of vintage denim. From discussing the evolving landscape of vintage supplies to the intersection of vintage fashion trends, we delve into the industry’s nuances. Unpacking the environmental impact of extensively travelled vintage garments…

07/04/2023

Garmology podcast – With Kelly and Scott of Dawson Denim (#117)

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Today we are off to the British seaside to meet Kelly Dawson and Scott Ogden of Dawson Denim, a small maker of quality jeans. We talk about how Kelly became increasingly disenchanted with her career in the garment industry, about Japanese denim, how offering free repairs brought media mentions, meeting through the vintage music scene and how their shared…

13/03/2023

Garmology bonus podcast: The anniversary AMA – With Nick as the guest (S05E13 #113)

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The week is an Ask Me Anything episode celebrating 10 years since the Well Dressed Dad blog started. The guest is your usual host, Nick Johannessen. With a wide range of reader-supplied questions, it’s a rare opportunity for your regular host to get more than a few words in edge-wise and talk at length about tweed, sustainability, taking photos in…

17/02/2023

Garmology podcast: The Rebel’s Wardrobe – With Bryan Szabo (S05E09 #109)

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This week I sit down with Bryan Szabo, author of “The Rebel’s Wardrobe” and instigator of the Indigo Invitational. We talk about who the rebels were, the items of clothing they became known for and why these garments became so important. We also give a crash course in denim fades, why this is meaning full and how there is now…

08/07/2022

Garmology: Real as rivets – With Joe Schindler of Joe & Co (#98 S04 E24)

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The magic school bus of Garmology stops today in rainy Manchester to take onboard Joe Schindler for a salty chat about denim, small-scale production, making in the UK, how to stumble and keep going in business, how being your own boss means working all hours and the value in making only stuff you really like yourself. You can find Joe…

03/06/2022

Garmology: A twisty tale of endurance – With Chris Hewitt of Hewitt Denim Mills (#92 S04/E19)

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Today’s guest is Chris Hewitt. Chris started out in 2008 wanting to make a pair of sustainable jeans. He’d been dealing in vintage for a while and had a mate that had briefly worked in the fashion industry, so how hard could it be? Harder than he’d imagined, as it turned out. Tune in for the twisty tale of trying…

06/05/2022

Garmology: True blue renew – With Janelle Hanna of White Weft (#88 S04/E15)

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This week Janelle of White Weft in London drops by to talk about her life in the denim industry as a designer, how she is now upcycling worn out denim into new products, the joy of repairing broken jeans, how stretchy jeans and elastane are the banes of recycling denim, designing fits, how the industry is a greenwashing nightmare, oh,…

10/12/2021

Garmology: Gentlemans subculture – with Mathias Lösel of The Heritage Post (S03/E14)

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The Heritage Post magazine is celebrating 10 years of publication and writer Mathias Lösel drops in to talk about gentleman culture, denim and tweed, subcultures, individuality and rugged guys, that Florian Schneider cover, Churchill and how they work on expanding the minds of their readers. Find The Heritage Post on the web here and on Instagram as @theheritagepost. The free English edition of…

29/10/2021

Garmology: Down the denim rabbit hole – With Mohsin Sajid (S03/E08)

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This week Mohsin Sajid stops by for a bumper session on his 20 years in the denim industry (so far), a rundown on denim history, collecting vintage sewing gear, which vintage jeans are the best, zero-waste design, how denim is slowly moving from being one of the worst polluters in the fashion industry to something a little better and how…

10/03/2021

Garmology podcast: Mature style – With David Evans aka Grey Fox (S02 E10)

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David Evans, otherwise known as Grey Fox, has been blogging about menswear for 10 years. Championing menswear for the older man, be it classic suits, vintage denim or outdoors tweed, David has built a wide following. We talk about the madness of social media, the problem of both liking new clothes and being pro sustainability, how old cars fit in…