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<text id=91TT2731>
<title>
Dec. 09, 1991: Business Notes:Fashion
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 59
Business Notes
FASHION
Showing Their True Colors
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<p> All natural. No artificial ingredients. No additives. Long a
part of the flackery for food products, such boasts may soon be
appearing not only on what you eat but also on what you wear.
Making their debut this holiday season are Levi's Naturals--jeans fashioned from cotton whose hues are inherent in the
fiber rather than the result of dying.
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<p> The unique strain of cotton was developed by Sally Fox, an
entomologist who was originally looking for a naturally
insect-resistant variety of cotton. She came across "coyote
brown" cottonseeds that had been collected by the Department of
Agriculture during the 1930s and '40s and launched a company
called Natural Cotton Colours. Besides making the cotton into
Natural jeans (retail price: about $27), Levi's is offering
colored cotton shorts and jackets. Even the advertising attached
to the jeans flogs the "natural" theme: it is printed on
recycled denim. For the moment, Natural jeans are available in
beige, brown and green, but Fox has her eye on the inevitable:
a natural blue.
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