02/10/2026
Denimheads with a decent memory will remember the Norweigan denim brand Steel Feather, mostly active around the early 2010’s. The brand offered a limited range of distinctive jeans made to a high level in Japan, using specially sourced low-volume Japanese-woven selvedge denim. You can read more about the brand in my original post about the brand from 2014. And also…
13/03/2015
This week has been mostly in the hue of indigo. We’ve had amazing weather with the sky being blue, and with nature on the cusp of springing out in all it’s glory, the colours outside are totally complimentary to the denim and tweed I’ve been wearing. Summer is coming in too fast though and I really don’t feel I’ve been…
10/03/2015
Norway is not the first country you think of when it comes to rare denim. It’s fair to say that it probably struggle to make any list of most likely countries to even have much of an interest in the less common denim variants. Yet there are in fact two jeans companies of note, Livid Jeans and Steel Feather. I…
14/06/2014
Norway is a relatively small country, and when it comes to the clothing industry the two main focus areas are heritage clothing and utilitarian basics for the army. Mostly though, almost all the production equipment has been packed down and shipped off to Eastern Europe, where people will work for less money, and see a future in the garment industry.…
10/08/2013
Being of the age I am, denim has always been a part of my life, in some form or another. From the stonewashed jeans of the 80’s to the increasingly boringly styled and baggier jeans of middle-age, I’ve never been without a pair or two, even though other types of trousers have come and gone. And while I wouldn’t characterize…