{"title":"New Denim City","authors":"Michelle Crouch","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0039","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:When Cone Mills’ White Oak denim plant shut its doors in 2017, blue jeans enthusiasts went into mourning. Much of the outcry centered around the fact that the Greensboro, North Carolina mill had been the last one in the United States producing selvage denim. Two years later, the vintage looms used at White Oak resurfaced at Vidalia Mills in Louisiana to great fanfare. Blue jeans sewn with this fabric command prices in the $200-$400 range. This essay uses a personal and familial lens to explore the relationship between nostalgia for the pre-NAFTA southern textile industry, high-priced “heirloom” denim, and the material reality of the workers who operate the storied Draper X3 looms.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0039","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:When Cone Mills’ White Oak denim plant shut its doors in 2017, blue jeans enthusiasts went into mourning. Much of the outcry centered around the fact that the Greensboro, North Carolina mill had been the last one in the United States producing selvage denim. Two years later, the vintage looms used at White Oak resurfaced at Vidalia Mills in Louisiana to great fanfare. Blue jeans sewn with this fabric command prices in the $200-$400 range. This essay uses a personal and familial lens to explore the relationship between nostalgia for the pre-NAFTA southern textile industry, high-priced “heirloom” denim, and the material reality of the workers who operate the storied Draper X3 looms.
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In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.
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