I have received e-mails from a number of people who said, “I’m not going to buy Chucks when they start coming from China!” Well, the new ones come from Indonesia… and they seem to be doing a good job of making them. ——————————————————————————– My General Impressions: Sewing quality has improved dramatically. Even on the “American-made” Chucks, it was [...]

New denim brands appear all the time, usually based in the US, sometimes Europe and occasionally Australia but it’s not often that I receive a mail from a new company established in Asia. Easton is a new company proudly and ethically producing denim in Indonesia. They have three types of denim – selvedge, coated and [...]

Armani Exchange : Studded Eagle and Indonesia’s national logo, the Garuda Pancasila I was alerted by my friend the other day to a shocking photo on the Armani Exchange website. Armani had used a logo resembling, or perhaps even parodying, the national symbol of the Garuda Pancasila on a T-shirt called “the Studded Eagle”. My initial reaction [...]

Looking back in 1950s, long before The Beatles and the Rolling Stones got famous, there was a band named The Tielman Brothers, the first Dutch-Indonesian band that successfully went international. Their music was called Indorock, a fusion of Indonesian and Western music, and had roots in Keroncong. There were 44 singles launched from 1959 to [...]