Raleigh Denim Featured on A Continuous Lean

36" Inseam

September, 11, 2009 , by Jedidiah

Raleigh Denim was featured yesterday (Thursday September 10th) on A Continuous Lean, a hip blog about “American things, good looking things, well designed things and all sorts of other things” in the NYC area.

Blogger Michael Williams met and interviewed Victor, while he was in NYC recently. Williams goes on to rave about the jeans and the passion that he and Sarah put into making their denim and brand successful.

There are a lot of denim brands in this world and I found it amazing that all of the design, development, pattern making, sourcing and even the construction is done by hand by Victor, Sarah and a small staff from their workshop down south. The folks at Raleigh pride themselves on the fact that 98% of what goes into the company’s jeans are from North Carolina. In fact, Victor even seeks out the original machines that are used in the production, traveling around the North Carolina and Tennessee border looking for old factories and needle towns. And he is into it. Victor’s eyes would light up when talking about an old chain stitch machine or another vintage mechanical acquisition. It was like a kid talking about his baseball card collection.

It is refreshing to meet self made people with a true passion for what they are creating. Through hard work, skill and a little luck Victor and Sarah are accomplishing things that huge companies couldn’t do. The quality, craftsmanship and the love are all there, so one would have to be a fool to not respect a company like Raleigh Denim. We could use more of that in the world.

Read the full article here.

Raleigh Denim will be part of Fashion Spark next week. Also, Read New Raleigh’s Interview with Raleigh Denim