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What acid washed jeans ment to us all.
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Acid Wash; Aka "Snow wash" Jeans.
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The 80's Acid Wash Treatment.
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You can still buy acid washed jeans but they are not as loud as they used to be. Which many people feel is a good thing.
The new process involved with making acid washed jeans is that the chemical is now sprayed on and removed very quickly. The
effect has been to reduce they intensity of the patterns that the chlorine would otherwise create.
At first the Acid Wash process involved soaking pumice in Industrial Strength Chlorine however is was discovered
that potassium permanganate was more controllable and just as strong an oxidizer. They simple marinated
pumice stone in it and then vacuum packed the stone to the required moisture level. Acid wash was a
chemical processed denim that stripped the top layer of color off to a white surface with the undertones
of navy blue remaining in the jeans. And not only jeans were acid washed; if you were truly fashionable,
you also had an acid washed denim jacket that matched said acid washed jeans. While blue was the most popular color
of acid wash, in the late 80s denim manufacturers also experimented with red styles and black (black and
gold acid wash.Wow!)
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