Finding a pair of jeans made in America just got harder. Learning that the 112 year old Cone Denim White Oak plant is closing in Greensboro has us scrambling to find signs of denim in Greensboro. Just as out city's new nickname "Jeansboro" is gaining momentum, the city will lose the plant. This news is so monumental, it made the New York Times (here).
Today's photos show a string of lights at the Greensboro Cultural Center. If you look closely, you will notice that they are wrapped in custom-made denim covers. From mid-August through October, the Cultural Center featured an exhibit entitled the "50 Shades of Blue Denim Project." It showed how artists could take denim discards and breathe new life into them by creating artwork out of denim. Perhaps we could round up some artists who could breathe new life into our city's remaining denim factory, before it is lights out...
Never a good thing when a plant with that much history goes out of commission.
Posted by: William Kendall | Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 04:54 PM