Time.com's multimedia section has a new photo essay on blue jeans.Like many manufactured goods in the world today, jeans mean China. (OK,you can get them from elsewhere. The photos show American and SriLankan manufacturers, too.) The essay is worth checking out for theamazing photos from a factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong.
New York, New York
Supermodel Heidi Klum poses in an advertisement for Rosner jeans, a German clothing company.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:18
Zhongshan, China
A worker takes a break after working through the night. The blue dust from the jeans is a heavy irritant to the lungs.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:24
Los Angeles, California
A worker at All American Wash, a luxury denim-maker, sculpts 3-D whiskers into a pair of designer pants.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:25
Los Angeles, California
Jeans hang on a conveyor belt leading to an oven that will bake them to a worn look at All American Wash.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:25
Zhongshan, China
A worker uses a sanding machine to distress jeans. The factory also scrubs, sprays, tears and stone-washes their products.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:27
Vernon, California
JasonFerro is the owner of Bread Denim, a company at the heart of the LosAngeles-based luxury denim industry. Ferro and his competetitors havefound a strong market for their vintage-washed 100 percent organiccotton garments, which retail for $200 to $300 a pair.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:28
Zhongshan, China
Workersat this jeans factory in the Chinese boomtown put out 10,000 pairs aday, almost all of them in the fashionable "distressed" style.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:28
Zhongshan, China
A worker carries finished jeans off the factory floor. The Chinese boomtown is home to 5,000 garment makers.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:29
Avissawella, Sri Lanka
Thejeans industry provides jobs for nearly one million people in SriLanka. The country exports 3 billion dollars' worths of denim productsto the United States each year.作者: yanny 时间: 2008-2-19 02:31
Zhongshan, China
A young child sleeps on a bed of denim while workers sew pocket and button details.
In order to fulfill the huge demand for their products, workers at the garment factories in Zhongshan are often required to work every day of the month.作者: bill 时间: 2008-2-19 16:14
