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    An OD+SDA Collaboration | The "Tora" Selvedge Jeans

    Literally years in the making.


    We’ve been toying with natural dyes for the better half of the past decade now, and using them in the weave composition of our collaborations.
    When we first started playing with the idea of natural dyes with SDA, the timing could not have been better. They had just begun production of their standard 15oz. Selvedge on the coveted G3 shuttle looms, and began toying with natural dyes for their 40th anniversary. It was during this period that we rolled out our first proprietary denim development with SDA, the first “Matcha” denim run. Fast forward from that first denim experiment and we’ve had a good run so far with the Osaka OG’s, from co-designing their Kakishibu Sashiko, to the Indigo x Indigo “Panther” piece, to rolling out the slightly crazy “Houjicha” denim. It was this Turmeric dyed denim that was always lingering in the background for us.

    The "Tora" Selvedge fabric

    • With the original ideation coming in early 2019, we saw the first sample of the denim by the summer of that year.
    • Unhappy with the hue, as it was leaning more toward a yellow than the golden-orange hue that we were really after, we temporarily shelved the idea while continuing to work on other projects.
    • It wasn’t until 2021 that we kick started the process of denim development once again, this time going through the process of explaining to the dye factory exactly the hue we were after. Not going off only Pantone color code reference this time around, we sent the factory a small cutting from an actual Buddhist monk’s robe we purchased in Thailand years ago. Most robes adorned by monks of the Buddhist faith are naturally dyed in Turmeric.

      Source: Canva (https://www.canva.com)

      Not going off only Pantone color code reference this time around, we sent the factory a small cutting from an actual Buddhist monk’s robe we purchased in Thailand years ago.

      Source: Canva (https://www.canva.com)

    • Before weaving the actual Selvedge fabric, we used these reference yarns to gauge the eventual hue we were after.
    • The reference yarn we select is then put through a computer generated program to assume the color of the face and inlay of the denim (warp & weft).
    • And the end result, the denim we finally felt comfortable calling a real Turmeric dyed denim, was an ecstatic feeling in early 2022 when we finally laid our hands on this swatch of Selvedge.
    Our latest OD+SDA collaboration is cut in our original updated OD Relax Tapered fit. It features a lengthier front rise, a wider thigh & aggressive taper from the knee down, creating an aesthetically pleasing silhouette, while still maintaining maximum comfort. The updates we made to SDA’s Relax Tapered were opening up the waist for each size, and giving a bit more room in the top block for a better balance for our denim fam.

    The OD+SDA "Tora" Selvedge Jeans drop on 12/22 @ Midnight (JST)

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