Is Black Denim Smart Casual?
Black color itself is classic and almost all-match.Black jeans are often a good option for a business casual office. Wearing the perfect pair of black jeans with denim shirt and quality watches will help them to fit in the workplace, while still showcasing their wearer’s personal sense of style.
Traditional indigo denim is a twill fabric tightly woven from indigo cotton warp yarns and white cotton weft yarns. With the needs of fashion development, more and more styles and colors have changed, and black denim has appeared. Historically, black jeans first appeared around the 1950s and 1960s.
Wrangler, one of the three major denim brands in the United States, once claimed that it was the first to introduce black denim into the jeans industry in 1950, originating from the costumes made for “Hopalong Cassidy” on TV at that time. Levi’s also launched a series of black denim jeans due to the 1956 movie “Jailhouse Rock” which set off the black denim trend to satisfy the curiosity of movie fans. (The blue jeans worn by Elvis Presley in the movie appear black because of the black and white film.)
Although we have no way of knowing who was the first manufacturer to introduce black denim in history, we can roughly surmise that black jeans have been popular for decades.
According to the fabric style of black denim, it can be divided into the following three types:
▼Black warp and white weft denim
Black-dyed warp yarns (vertical direction) and undyed weft yarns (horizontal direction) are woven to create denim with a black top and a white bottom.
In appearance, it is not pure black, but has white spots that seem to be absent. This is no different from how Indigo blue jeans are made, so these black jeans can also naturally fade over time, fading to dark gray or creating a strong black and white contrast effect.
Due to the pigment, black jeans fade more slowly than blue jeans, but the contrast will be stronger.
Black warp white weft selvedge denim fabric recommended:
▼Blue warp and Black weft denim
Black denim woven with blue warp and black weft.
The top of the cloth is dark blue, almost black, and the bottom is black. Jeans made of this fabric are relatively rare on the market. Most brands dye their blue jeans black by soaking them in boiling black dye, a method commonly known as (garment) overdying. The jeans made in this way are also dark blue on the top and black on the bottom. After washing, the black peels off to produce a blue-black effect.
Due to the blue warp, this kind of black jeans will fade faster than black jeans with black warp and white weft, but it will also fade slower than pure Indigo jeans, and the lines will not be too obvious, but the black color will be visible during the fading stage. Convert to indigo, or the effect of mutual color rendering.
Selvedge Indigo black denim fabric:
13.5oz Right Twill Jet Black Raw Selvedge Denim Manufacturer W285427
▼Black warp and Black weft denim
Black denim woven with black warp and black weft yarns (some manufacturers also dye the woven twill fabric).
The jeans made from this kind of denim are what most people understand as black jeans, also called all-black or pure black jeans.
People who like black cow usually choose this classic and ultimate black. The black cow worn by women is basically this type. The cloth bottom and surface are all black and there is no contrasting color. Even if they are worn for a long time and washed many times, There will be no whiskering or other color fading, it will only become lighter overall, or there will be particularly obvious fading in seams such as pockets. This production method preserves the original color of the jeans for as long as possible.
**Jet Black x black jeans cloth:
**100%Cotton:
13.8 oz Black Selvedge Denim Jeans Material Manufacturer W262728K-1A
**Stretch Selvedge Denim Jet Black x black jeans cloth:
**98%cotton2%spandex
Fashion elements such as washed colors on blue jeans rarely appear on black jeans, because most people who like black jeans are attracted by their versatile, slim, mysterious, classic and ultimate black appearance, but how to maintain it for a long time Keeping dark fabrics from aging and becoming lighter is a challenge.
Earlier, Cone Denim cooperated with Lenzing and Unifi to launch a fade-resistant black denim, which may solve everyone’s problems.
This denim called Future Black+ is made from Lenzing Modal® black fiber and REPREVE® black recycled fiber. It has good color fastness and is the latest member of Cone Denim’s TruTone™ series of fabrics.
Anti-fading principle:
The reason why denim fades is because when white yarn is dyed into blue or black or other colors, the color only adheres to the surface of the yarn, so during subsequent washing and wearing, the color will detach and fade. , which is generally known as color fall. In fact, as long as it is dyed fabric, it will definitely fade. The only difference lies in the color fastness.
Lenzing Modal® black fiber uses an innovative energy-saving and environmentally friendly dyeing technology – dope dyeing, which mixes black pigments in the spinning solution to produce black fiber. This method will make the fiber itself already colored and evenly colored, without the need for subsequent yarn dyeing processes.
It might be easier to understand if you switch to how to make desserts.
The method of liquid dyeing is equivalent to adding matcha powder when making cakes to make a matcha cake with a matcha color throughout, instead of spreading matcha cream on the surface of the prepared yellow cake embryo.
If you scrape off the matcha cream on the surface, a yellow cake will be revealed. In the same way, the dye on the surface of the yarn will peel off and the original color of the yarn will be revealed.
Therefore, the overall fade resistance of yarns that are dyed is naturally better than that of yarns that are only dyed on the surface.
After testing, Future Black+ denim shows no signs of color fading after more than 20 washes, and can achieve long-lasting color retention.
What’s more, Lenzing Modal® black fiber has about 50% to 60% less harmful impact on the environment than traditional dyed fabrics because Lenzing uses fewer chemicals in the dyeing and finishing process. (90% reduction), less energy consumption (20% reduction in electricity, 63% reduction in heat), and 64% reduction in water waste
REPREVE® black recycled fiber is a fiber made by Unifi from recycled plastic bottles. A pair of jeans made with Future Black+ technology contains up to 17 recycled plastic bottles, which means that those that should have been discarded in landfills A plastic bottle can be turned into a pair of jeans with superior softness, color retention and stretchability while minimizing the impact on the environment.
It can be said that Future Black+ is a high-performance and sustainable denim.
