Sugar Cane Jeans
by Justin Thomas, Virginia on 10.20.05
A Japanese company makes jeans out of a blend of sugar cane and selvage denim. The cane used is Sweet Sorghum, otherwise known as Sweet Millet or Sugar Millet. It's a type of grass grown all over the world for making a molasses-like syrup and animal feed. The Sugarcane jeans that feature this fiber have a faint sweet smell and may have occasional woody tufts poking out of the fabric. Some jeans are dyed with persimmon. See this fervent discussion on these jeans. They are available from: Rakuten (Japan), Saddlemen (Japan) and History Preservation
This is a great find, thanks Justin. There are studentts at FIT working specifically on alternative denim issues... I hope they get to see this. Sadly, I don't have their names.