How Handmade Jeans Are Made In Detroit | The Making Of

Eric Yelsma started Detroit Denim in 2008, just as the financial crisis was picking up steam. Today, his shop is one of the only jean manufacturers in Detroit. The small team of 10 churn out about 40 pairs of jeans a week. They’re made of a sturdier type of denim called selvedge. Each pair takes around four hours to make.

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How Handmade Jeans Are Made In Detroit | The Making Of

[soxnation]

2:19 The average cost of jeans in the US is $165-211? I've never spent more than $40 for a pair of jeans in my life.

[evictioncarpentry]

Complain about a couple hundred bucks but... I've had a few pairs of Nudie raw selvedge jeans for damn near a decade. Yeah, there's holes and I've patched them a ton of times, but man do they look and fit awesome still... And everything done to them, patina wise, was all me.

[ThugFreeZone]

I live in Southfield, right outside of Detroit. Hello to everyone in Michigan.

[arimokyuu_]

Oh, i when i hear Detroit i remember Connor and Markus..

[stevebirks]

Used to love -Those 1980s Jeans - Stonewashed so light blue ! -Lee - Levis - both button & zips - on a summers day in the 80's - Nice stonewashed jeans - freshly ironed white Indian cotton shirt & A nice pair of bumpers - That was the order of the day

[joseaugustoburattini]

When I enter in any atelier and I have faced it in complete miss, confusion, always I suppose that it may be problematic in results, and your factory is well organized this is a positive viewer of mine. Congratulations. Sucess to u enterprise.

[remycuble]

Detroit what!!!
I want a pair to rep my hometown

[Charlie-ndef]

Now that's definitely worth the price.

[mary._.yamborghini]

notice how a pair of jeans made in america cost $265 bc you're paying for "craftsmanship" but the jeans from walmart are under what like $20? americans think they should be paid fairly but won't pay bengali people the same fair wages. Their cost of livings isn't cheaper, they're just seen as bodies in a sweat shop not people.

[AD-nuih]

I hope they an online store like on amazon their business will be boomin

[KylieAesthetics]

wow the earliest ive been! Btw nice vid

[starcherry]

The American made jeans are better quality though, like these jeans can up to a decade!

[joseaugustoburattini]

I could see tailors throughout of the world, not quantity of produced, but quality of their jeans, this is their nicho of sales. In BCG matrix would it be

[crafael.]

Selvedge is a hype. It can last longer? Levis also can do that. Better price, much comfortable..

[alyssadog]

Why does the title say How Handmade Jeans Are Made In Detroit but it shows a jean jacket in the thumbnail?

[julia-ntll]

I just thought it said "how Detroit jeans are made in Detroit"

[minnesota]

No more skinny jeans and no more holes 2021. Yes it's about time. Bring back Jinko's wide leg.

[stevebirks]

Gonna have a look on your web site ? - Do you go as far as doing the light blue denim stonewashed maybe ? - I'll find out ?
I did go out with a beautiful young lady who was a whizz on a sewing machine - Her mom was a seamstress and obviously showed her daughter how to use the sewing machine - Her thing was to wander around junk shops or flea markets looking for those old 1940'50'&60's Envelopes with paper patterns in - and then Paulla would bring these paper patterns into the future as clothes -She looked dead smart in some of her creations looked like she had walked out of a movie ? We were both nurse's a hospital and we both livied in the nurses home -She would get me to get extra white cotton sheets on bed changing day so she could cut them up and make clothes out of them ! Shouldnt be telling you this - But she never owned a pair of Jeans -She always wore a skirt or a dress - Would say denin is workwear !
Wish I had never let that girl slip through my fingers one in a million she was !

[Hotspur]

I paid $300 for a pair of Flat Head 3009. Worth every penny.

[MrJackrockerman]

Support him guys.. for the USA made denim..