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- Dec. 09, 1991: Business Notes:Fashion
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- FASHION
- Showing Their True Colors
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- <p> All natural. No artificial ingredients. No additives. Long a
- part of the flackery for food products, such boasts may soon be
- appearing not only on what you eat but also on what you wear.
- Making their debut this holiday season are Levi's Naturals--jeans fashioned from cotton whose hues are inherent in the
- fiber rather than the result of dying.
- </p>
- <p> The unique strain of cotton was developed by Sally Fox, an
- entomologist who was originally looking for a naturally
- insect-resistant variety of cotton. She came across "coyote
- brown" cottonseeds that had been collected by the Department of
- Agriculture during the 1930s and '40s and launched a company
- called Natural Cotton Colours. Besides making the cotton into
- Natural jeans (retail price: about $27), Levi's is offering
- colored cotton shorts and jackets. Even the advertising attached
- to the jeans flogs the "natural" theme: it is printed on
- recycled denim. For the moment, Natural jeans are available in
- beige, brown and green, but Fox has her eye on the inevitable:
- a natural blue.
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