St. Crispins Day Boot

Handmade in Connecticut with rich 7oz leather from Chicago’s celebrated Horween tannery, the St. Crispins Day Boot is a sturdy six inch boot built for roughing it in the woods or a long day in the city. The vegetable-tanned, cognac-hued leather upper is accented with vintage tweed and waxed olive Cone Mills duck canvas, and finished with sturdy a Vibram sole.

Raleigh Workshop’s Certified Organic Cotton Project

Jeans with the smallest carbon footprint on earth made with North Carolina's first crop of certified organic cotton

By now one would think all great ideas have already been considered and executed in the world of denim. With this in mind, sometimes the best way to take a step forward in a saturated market is to revisit the most basic question of all. For Raleigh Denim Workshop founders Victor Lytvinenko and Sarah Yarborough said question was one that had lingered in Lytvinenko’s head …

Parke Active Denim

The young startup sets out to make stretch denim jeans in NYC from fabric made in Cone Mills, North Carolina

After funding their first selvedge denim jeans with a successful Kickstarter campaign in early 2013, NYC-based Parke is at it again with a more innovative idea in mind: A pair of raw denim jeans woven with one percent elastane for enough stretch to encourage and enable an active lifestyle. While the “active denim” lacks selvedge, it is made by renowned Cone Mills in North Carolina, …