A little over a decade ago, a small town in west Wales was the largest surviving manufacturer of jeans in the UK. The 400 factory workers at the Dewhirst factory in Cardigan turned out more than ...

Making a pair of jeans creates massive pollution. But Everlane found a factory where denim by-product is turned into bricks and polluted water is filtered. “Denim is a really dirty business,” says ...

Jeans with a distressed, already-worn look have been popular since the 1990s, but one way the effect is achieved is by blasting them with sand - and this can give factory workers an incurable lung ...

In a soon-to-open Arkansas factory, 21 production lines manned by the Sewbot will be capable of making 1.2 million T-shirts a year–and the ripple effects will soon be felt in garment factories in the ...