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Romney sticking to his guns

Josh Le spent more than a year in his raw denim Nudie Jeans.

“Raw denim . . . they’re a pair of jeans that are dyed but not chemically treated or distressed,” Le said.

“What that allows you is a blank canvas in front of you – you’ve got to paint on jeans with your life, essentially.

“So instead of buying designer denim that have all these dyed and crinkled parts, you have jeans that are designed essentially by you. So that’s one of the big draws for raw denim.”

Le said it all started as a fashion experiment, but soon turned into a science experiment.

“It turns out that it’s not that bad for you,” he said of his experiment, which included a bacteria analysis by a professor at his college who studies textiles and bacteria.

Le said he would regularly give his jeans the “sniff test” to ensure he wasn’t going out in public with seriously funky-smelling clothes.

“I’d try to control the odour. Some days it would be bad but I’d air it out,” he said.

“I persevered through insults, disgusted looks, inquisitions from friends and family, and other trials and tribulations every iconoclast faces when they stick to their guns.”

- Student wears same jeans for 15 months, Yahoo.com, February 4, 2011.

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