Podcast
Canada’s Shameful Olympic Denim Jacket
The latest newsy edition of Blowout has us ripping on the Canadian olympic uniforms and a Federalist essay on how sweatshops empower women.
The latest newsy edition of Blowout has us ripping on the Canadian olympic uniforms and a Federalist essay on how sweatshops empower women.
Our writers and editors run down the week of Heddels including easy pants, the tragic abuse at a regional Buffalo Exchange, and developing during Covid.
The film that launched a thousand anti-denim campaigns, and yet didn't acknowledge jeans once. Hear our breakdown of the 1959 film Blue Denim.
This week's Blowout covers the crimes and the denim of the Tony Alamo Ministries, a cult that made some of the most popular denim jackets of the 80s.
Nearly all the denim you can buy today is distressed but it wasn't always that way, we're going into the first fashion jeans and the beginning of pre-fades.
Our denim story continues with its role in the Black community in the United States both as a symbol of oppression and one of solidarity.
Have you ever seen the iconic denim and leather biker flick The Wild One? Us neither! Listen along as we experience it for the first time.
Bikers, beatniks, and broken American repression, oh my! This episode of denim history delves into the fabric's transgressive roots in the postwar era.
Part pseudo-yearbook, part voyeuristic fan fiction, we talk about the story and legacy of the Japanese classic Take Ivy with author David Marx.
Our podcast series on the history of denim continues as we explore the role of jeans in the Great Depression and the New Deal programs to end it.
