New Denim City

IF 0.4 4区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

SOUTHERN CULTURES Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1353/scu.2022.0039

Michelle Crouch

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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.

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新牛仔城

摘要:2017年，Cone Mills旗下的白橡树(White Oak)牛仔工厂关闭，牛仔裤爱好者陷入了哀悼。大部分抗议都集中在北卡罗来纳州格林斯博罗的这家工厂是美国最后一家生产布边牛仔布的工厂。两年后，白橡树工厂使用的老式织机在路易斯安那州的维达利亚磨坊(Vidalia Mills)大张旗鼓地重新露面。用这种面料缝制的蓝色牛仔裤价格在200- 400美元之间。本文用个人和家庭的视角来探讨对北美自由贸易协定之前的南方纺织工业的怀旧，高价的“传家宝”牛仔布，以及操作传奇的Draper X3织机的工人的物质现实之间的关系。

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期刊介绍： 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.