Hardwear Highlight: Ladies Workwear Pant
With tradeshows on hold, Carved in Blue is putting its capsule collection out one digital post at a time.
This week, we’re highlighting the Carved in Blue® Ladies workwear pant.
Jeans are much more than just jeans – they’re the one piece of clothing that really represents the cultural, economic and technological change that has taken place in the past hundred years; from the original Levi’s overalls designed for miners in the 1870s. The increasing amount of fits, washes and styles on offer today are just limitless.
One of the biggest changes that jeans have gone hand-in-hand with is women’s position in society and a move towards equality between the sexes. After years of only being worn by men, 1934 saw the creation of ‘Lady Levi’s’ (also called Lot 701) by Levi Strauss & Co., the world’s first pair of denim jeans for women. Designed for women working on farms and ranches and for holidays at dude ranches, they liberated women at a time when trouser styles were few and far between, and were considered decidedly unfeminine.
Before this period, women just wore mens overalls. Lots of other brands in this period also started to make denim styles in ladies fits. It wasn’t really until the 1960s that jeans were embraced by women once again, and they became the symbol of empowerment, women’s rights and cultural revolution. In the early 1970s, Vogue featured blue jeans on its front cover for the first time, firmly cementing their fashion status and planting jeans into every woman’s subconscious.
For the Carved in Blue® hardware collection, the ENDRIME® team got their main inspiration from a depression era ladies Jeans acquired in Japan during a inspiration trip. What drew the ENDRIME® team to the garment was the side zipper construction, to the small pockets and feminine back yoke. The fit was extra special, high waisted and tapered.
Orta Anadolu based in Turkey was chosen for their fabric and advancements in Denim weaving. They had developed a fabric which content included 60% Cotton 20% Linen and 20% TENCEL™ Lyocell. This denim has one of the most exceptional loose weave tensions, perfect for a 1930s inspired Carved in Blue® Ladies workwear pant.
Key details in our Carved in Blue® Ladies workwear pant were:
- Angled front pockets
- Clean construction pocket bearer
- 3/16” twin needle on patch pocket
- Depression era womens fit inspiration
- Tailored belts loops (which go into bottom waistband)
- Hem finished with Union Special 43200G single needle chainstitch
- Branded ‘Carved in Blue®’ collaboration woven label
- Branded ‘Carved in Blue®’ buttons leather backed
- Chain stitch waistband construction
- Side zipper entry clean construction
- Printed internals hand stamped denim mills to identify each garment with TENCEL™ Denim story
- Clean finished Run and Felled double needle chainstitch seams construction on inseam leg
- Period correct mis-stitching on all pockets
- Clean finished Run and Felled triple needle chainstitch seams construction backrise and yoke
- Branded ‘Carved in Blue®’ collaboration leather patch
- Added extra strength pocketing reinforcement on back pockets
The Jeanologia team washed the garment based both ENDRIME® and Jeanologia Archive. This garment got a EIM low impact score of 32.
Check out our Ladies workwear pant section on Issuu.