Craft, Dye Series Part Six · August 31, 2026
Built for Color, Part Six: Yellow & Orange: The Difficulty of Sunshine
A history of dyes that burned bright, faded fast, and left too little behind.
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Craft, Dye Series Part Six · August 31, 2026
A history of dyes that burned bright, faded fast, and left too little behind.
Craft, Dye Series Part Six · August 31, 2026
A history of dyes that burned bright, faded fast, and left too little behind.
Craft · August 25, 2026
How Naked & Famous and Big John veterans Bahzad Trinos and Risa Saito built a Yokohama knitwear brand on vintage loopwheel machines, Foxfibre cotton, and Amami mud dyeing.
Craft, Dye Series Part Five · August 12, 2026
From walnut hulls to Amami mud, the chemistry and craft behind nature’s most overlooked color.
Craft, Dye Series Part Four · July 27, 2026
A color valuable enough to smuggle, secret enough to kill for, and powerful enough that cities wrote laws to prevent the poor from wearing it.
Craft · August 1, 2026
Why most "athletic fit" jeans miss the point, and the ten denim cuts — ranked by real thigh-to-waist ratios from the Fit Finder database — that actually work.
Culture · July 20, 2026
Roy Slaper, 1971–2026: the fabricator who emptied his apartment for sewing machines and built ROY Denim entirely by hand.
Culture · July 18, 2026
How "no-wash" culture turned a pair of jeans into a test of commitment instead of an appreciation for craftsmanship.
Craft · July 15, 2026
I built a database of 2,600+ actual denim measurements so you can stop gambling $300 on your next pair. Here's how it works, how to use it, and where it's going.
Craft, Dye Series Part Three · July 12, 2026
Why two garments the same color can wear completely differently: a guide to every stage of dyeing, from loose fiber to finished garment.
Craft · July 8, 2026
How Pure Blue Japan's Kenichi Iwaya rejected American vintage clones to forge a distinctly Japanese denim identity.
Craft, Dye Series Part Two · July 5, 2026
Why Wool and Silk Hold Color that Cotton Can't: the tannin bath that lets cotton borrow wool's trick, and why indigo never really bonds to your jeans at all.
Craft, Dye Series Part One · June 29, 2026
Why indigo takes 50 dips in a vat and mordant dyes take one: the chemistry of bonding, trapping, and the dyes that don't need either.
Becoming · June 7, 2026
A history of high-waisted trousers, from Scythian horsemen to Y2K low-rise, and a complicated reckoning with body, fit, and rise.
Culture · June 25, 2026
A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to the city's best menswear shops: Japanese denim, military surplus, made-to-measure shirts, vintage tailoring. Addresses, directions, and a map.
Becoming · May 30, 2026
A monthly confession of my sins: 19 pieces, one very dangerous eBay livestream, and a running argument with the responsible version of me.
Becoming · May 25, 2026
A bigger guy's journey through fashion, raw denim, and dressing with intention, and why no one should have to wait until they're a different person to dress like themselves.
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