• One True Pants: Anniversary and Wake

    We’ve done it. The process has taken every bit of tensile strength OTP could muster. But the day has come. It’s official. OneTruePants are dead. Long live OneTruePants. At midnight tonight it will have been 365 days that the same pair of hemp pants have adorned my blessed lower half. (Heroic music begins as OTP [...]

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  • OTP Over the Hill

    The end of this glorious experiment is certainly in site. But don’t cry for me. I do have another pair of pants around somewhere (I’m sure of it. Pretty sure at least.) For those of you keeping up on Facebook or Twitter I hope you are still enjoying the madness, and I will carry on [...]

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  • OTP hitting their stride

    It has been almost 75 days of continuous wear for the onetruepants.  More importantly they have endured 11 machine washings.  I personally have only endured two, but that was enough for me.  Well, maybe one more… but I usually take the OTP off before washing them. After just shy of a dozen washings I feel [...]

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  • Hemp textile wholesalers in the U.S.

    The wholesale business for hemp in the United States is a small field.  Currently it host about five players: Eco Vigor, EnviroTextiles, Hemp Basics, Hemp Traders, and Pickering International.  Two of the leading retail clothiers also make their European hemp fabrics available: Rawganique and Ecolution. There simply isn’t much hemp fabric being made worldwide and [...]

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  • I take thee pants… until threadbare do us part

    …one true pants will remain on my body at all times with the following exceptions: sleeping, laundering, swimming, and any other activity requiring nudity…

    By Zimmermann through Deutsches Bundesarchiv
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China’s Dong Ping is king of hemp textiles

While European countries such as Romania, Hungary and France cannot be forgotten, most commercial hemp fabric today comes from China.

Onetruepants
June 17, 2010
Hemp Clothing
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Hemp history in Utah

Hemp held the same precious value for the early Mormon pioneers that it should today, with its multiple uses for fabrics, rope and food (plus much more that we know about now that the Mormons most likely did not).  The Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society hosted one of their annual exhibitions in 1860 awarding prizes [...]

Onetruepants
May 19, 2010
Hemp Education, Hemp News, The saga of OTP
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Fair wage? But Poverty Makes Some Nice Pants

Sweatshops.  Sounds kind’a nice as I watch the snow fall outside my window here in SLC, in April.  Oh, to feel the sweat trickle down the small of my back and then slowly spread along my waistband front and back until it looks like I have thoroughly wet myself.  Oh to feel a hard dirt [...]

Onetruepants
April 29, 2010
Hemp Clothing, Social Justice
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Fabric discussions continue

Of course, like rednecks at a vegan lunch buffet, we are not yet satisfied. One True Pants is still diligently pursuing the ideal fabric for “the best damn pair of pants.”

Onetruepants
April 26, 2010
The saga of OTP
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