Thank you for viewing! ❤︎⃜ Dark blue, front-buttoned, straight denim. From the caqu official website: The ancestral factory of Japanese jeans. A BIGSTONE shopping bag that was stored in the factory. A valuable, unused item. caqu is produced in a factory rooted in "Watanabe Sewing," which is said to have been the first to sew jeans in Japan in the early 1960s. The first jeans maker in Japan dates back to "CANTON" (Canton) in 1963. CANTON later changed its name to "BIGSTONE" due to trademark issues and enjoyed explosive popularity, but went bankrupt in the late 70s due to the effects of the oil shock recession. BIGSTONE's parent company was Oishi Trading (BIG STONE!). The factory that Oishi Trading commissioned to sew the first Japanese jeans was "Watanabe Sewing," which was located in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture at the time. With the background of strong demand, BIGSTONE grew rapidly, and while producing at cooperating factories in the Kojima area (Okayama), which was a production base for school uniforms, they established "Tohoku Big Stone" in the town of Kahoku, Miyagi Prefecture (now Ishinomaki City) in the form of Watanabe Sewing relocating in its entirety as the company's first in-house factory. Tohoku Big Stone continued its business as an independent factory even after the bankruptcy of Oishi Trading and has been involved in the production of renowned brands such as Wrangler, EDWIN, and Lee, a factory that is the very history of Japanese jeans. The company name has now changed, and it continues as a dedicated factory for our Tandem company. Drawing with sandpaper caqu's main denim products also undergo washing processing in Miyagi Prefecture. General jeans go through a pre-process of partially fading the color on areas such as the whiskers, thighs, and seat, and then washing them in a vat mixed with objects such as pumice stones or golf balls to create a worn-in look all at once. However, in the case of caqu, which pursues natural fading, the vat is washed without any objects. Since they don't rely on objects, all the overall wear is done by hand. Artisans, imagining the color fading of truly worn jeans, apply natural blurring as if drawing with sandpaper. In this way, caqu's unique natural fading is completed, taking an enormous amount of time and cost.