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Low-rise jeans against Islamic ‘tehzeeb’; Kashmir clerics issue warning for Ramadan Srinagar: The clerics in Kashmir have warned against wearing low-rise jeans during the holy month of Ramadan, saying it is against the Islamic ‘tehzeeb’. The religious authorities are tied up in knots over the piece of clothing – low-rise jeans. A Muslim cleric said that a man wearing low-rise jeans reveals his back when he bows down to pray in a mosque, adding that the prayer remains incomplete in such clothes. Another cleric said that covering the body from waist to the ankles is a must. Campaigns have begun...

A mob of more than 20 teenagers descended on a trendy Wicker Park shop on Saturday and made off with more than $3,000 worth of jeans. CBS 2′s Derrick Blakley reports the incident was caught on store surveillance cameras, and the owner posted the video on YouTube. Luke Cho said he hopes the images help police find the robbers, or maybe even shame the parents of the teens enough that they’ll turn the kids in. From the moment the teens started flooding in the door at Mildblend Supply Co. on Milwaukee Avenue around 6:40 p.m. Saturday, Cho knew something wasn’t...

Updated. The first time I read this, I thought it was parody: Independent Brigham Young University publication The Student Review reports that BYU-Idaho has banned skinny jeans as part of its honor code guidelines against "form-fitting clothing." Skinny jeans: trousers of the devil? Don't tell Mitt Romney. "It's useful for us to realize that fashions will come and go. There will always be some tempting new style," University Vice President Henry J. Eyring explained in September. Fun fact: According to Wikipedia, Eyring is a member of Romney's extended family. Anyway, I'm 95% sure that this Student Review article is not...

Somali officials confirmed today that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaeda's leader in East Africa and a senior Shabaab commander, was killed at a Somali military checkpoint in Mogadishu earlier this week. Fazul is one of the most wanted terrorists in East Africa for his role in attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as his role within Shabaab. Somalia's minister of information confirmed Fazul's death, according to The Associated Press. "We've compared the pictures of the body to his old pictures," he said. "They are the same. It is confirmed. He is the man and he is...

EDMONTON, Alberta - The jeans a University of Alberta student wore daily for 15 months without washing them tested normal for bacteria levels at the end of the experiment. In Edmonton, student Josh Le, 20, told Postmedia News he bought the denim jeans in September 2009 and wore them daily -- and sometimes slept in them -- until last December. He said he used paper towels and napkins to dab away food spills and maintained his normal personal hygiene routine during the 15 months. Every two weeks, he said he put the jeans in a freezer overnight and there never...

Skinny jeans, adult films, human excrement sell 'like hot cakes' in North Korea * From: NewsCore * December 29, 2010 5:27AM SKINNY jeans, adult films and human excrement are among some of the most wanted items for consumers in North Korea. Kim Young-soo, a professor at Seoul's Sogang University who has interviewed several recent defectors from the Communist country, said that the items were selling "like hot cakes". Other popular items sold in North Korea included TV dramas and instant noodles, he said. Yonhap news agency reported that shops began selling human excrement to deal with acute shortages of fertiliser...

Please join me in harassing Jean S on her birthday. Happy Birthday Movie for JeanRegards, Tex

A Gap commercial (The Boyfriend Trouser) featuring Claire Danes dancing with Patrick Wilson.

Brazilian denim designers Osmoze Jeans present their S/S 2010 collection courtesy of Victoria’s Secret Angel and Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio, who looks quite fetching and rocking out in the company’s trademark jeans and sporty denim attire. We particularly love their chic jackets and shorts.

There is something quite special about the new Levi's campaign from Wieden & Kennedy. It is an exquisitely wrought example of design, language, mood and spirit (indomitable spirit, to be precise). It is also visually and tonally consistent across all media platforms. And it is obviously grounded in research that discovered a romantic and idealistic tug among the target audience for the good ol' American pioneering imperative. The flawless integration of design, strategy and theme, however, isn't what makes the campaign so special. What makes it special is that, more likely than not -- at least in the U.S. --...

Department store cancels sale of Swedish jeans made in N.Korea Jeans confiscated because of 'working conditions in North Korea'. -AFP Sun, Dec 06, 2009 AFP STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - A Swedish department store on Saturday cancelled what was to be the sale of the "first ever" brand of jeans made in North Korea, the Swedish company behind the communist-made dark denims said. "Apparently PUB has censored our exhibition/store by shutting it down and 'confiscating' the jeans because of the 'working conditions in North Korea'," Jakob Ohlsson of company Noko Jeans told AFP in an email. "At first i thought it was...

Ok! For the first time in a long time, a male politician is getting flak for his attire. Yes it is unfair how often women in politics -- or the wives of politicians -- are subject to readings of the riot act by the Fashion Police. But you have to admit it's because women actually wear attire worth noticing. Men's clothes are so boring -- most notably in the political realm.I mean, what was the last fashion faux pas brouhaha regarding a male politician's business attire? Paul Simon's bow ties?   But I gotta side with Obama on this one. So, they were a little baggy -- but "mom...

In which CNN totally redeems itself for the other mom-themed political video they foisted on us today. Watch closely here and you’ll see the tweet that was sent to me last night — and which I linked in our post about The One throwing out the first pitch — flash by for a second or two. Good lord: Did Hot Air launch the Obama “mom jeans” meme? Behold my proudest moment as a blogger, my friends.

Doug Black has found himself in a tight squeeze more times than he cares to remember. One day, he got caught in the rain without an umbrella and was unable to run. When his colleagues sat in a circle, the 23-year-old English teacher from Portland, Ore., couldn't cross his legs. And when he tried to jaywalk, while in Beijing for work, he couldn't hop the median divider with his friends. "I had to walk half a mile down the street on my own to use the crosswalk," he says. His jeans were too tight. But he has no plans to...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Levi Strauss & Co., the jeans manufacturer that has long been a leader in corporate support for the homosexual activist movement, has come out with a new marketing scheme that may dupe consumers who buy their products into displaying support for same-sex "marriage."Company owned stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco will be displaying their summer line-up of jeans and shirts adorned with "White Knots for Equality," a symbol that denotes support for homosexual "marriage." The symbol, a white ribbon tied in a knot, was developed by Frank Voci, the owner...

Georges Marciano, a co-founder of the Guess clothing empire, is the latest person seeking to become governor of California. The one-time fashion magnate's paperwork was recorded on Monday with the secretary of state's office, allowing him to run as an independent in 2010, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is termed out. The 62-year-old Beverly Hills resident plans to campaign on a platform that focuses on exposing and eliminating political corruption and putting "the power of government back in the people's hands," said his publicist, Rod Harrell. "He doesn't really want to be tied into the same old good-old-boys network," Harrell said....

What can be sexier than a pair of 7 for All Mankind jeans? Only Doutzen Kroes advertising them! The Fashion Time’s sexiest model of the year stars in the jeans brand’s S/S ’09 ad campaign along with David Gandy.

Now, this isn’t a political subject, but it is social, and the two are intertwined. Skinny jeans; there are ugly, baffling styles that emerge every decade; bell bottoms, pegged jeans, parachute pants, pleated front jeans, etc. The plague of the 2000’s has to be skinny jeans. When did chicken legs become hip? It was always my understanding that if you had twig legs, you tried to hide them. Conversely, if you have fat legs, someone should tell you, so you don’t wear skin tight skinny jeans. They are ugly enough on girls, skin tight, almost painted on; but they are...

The new Wrangler jeans ad campaign shows how far adverts can go to capture people’s attention. Their provocative ads feature dead bodies with a tagline, “We are animals”. Models are strewn across the muddy ground or floating in a bog, so as to look like foxy murdered corpses.