We are honored to be presenting these items as a part of the fall collection on their website and in select retail stores.

Here are the items we made for them:

Well Worn Workers Pants
This is a special washed version of our Worker pants, made out of the duck canvas.

Long-Sleeve Racer Tee Shirt

Some style blogs around the internet have started waxing praise for the Miner’s Pants:

10 Engines:

“These might be the most pined for item already…”

Guide To Bad Taste:

“Rising Sun… has got their grapefruit together on these pants.”

As there is a positive expectation building about these items it seems that they wont last long. There are limited quantities available and Orvis has chosen to offer them for a special price to their customers… less than what we retail them for in our shop. This is a perfect opportunity for the individuals who have expressed interest in purchasing Rising Sun product but have had difficulty locating and attaining it due to our limited production and distribution.

Good Luck!

Click here to watch it in High Definition.

Rising Sun is featured in the June 2010 issue of Japanese men’s magazine SENSE. There is much love for our duck canvas fabrication, which Mike loves to work with.

We have been featured in the Japanese magazine Safari. Check it out. Big thanks to all of the Rising Sun supporters in the land of the rising sun (don’t forget we already covered how our name came to be on our blog here).

The House of the Rising Sun…Old World Craftsmanship for Your Denim

You like a bit of crazy now and then.

So when we heard about a denim designer so obsessed with craftsmanship that he went through gold mines to dig up the century-old jeans worn by the workers, we knew this was the guy you’d want cutting and sewing your next pair.

Namely Mike Hodis of Rising Sun & Co. Jeans, a cult label that crafts each pair of dungarees by hand in a three-man workshop in Pasadena, available exclusively at AB Fits.

When we say exclusively, we mean that only 18 pairs exist right now on the shelves. And when AB Fits sells one, the guys in Pasadena start making the next pair. Hodis designs all the jeans, which reflect authentic details of vintage workwear, and are crafted from his own custom fabric designed with one of the oldest denim factories in the country.

You’ll also be glad to know that instead of working in a factory using automated machines, each pair is meticulously cut and sewn by hand by Mike himself and then put together by a select team of tailors using vintage black-top sewing machines, just like they did in the 1800s.

Making them perfect for ringing in 2010.

Urban Daddy, the online and email city guide, just posted a neat story on our products in the San Francisco jeans temple AB Fits.

Read the article here.

If you are in the SF area be sure to check out the amazing store that is AB Fits.

AB Fits
1519 Grant Avenue
North Beach,
San Francisco, CA 94133

Today the popular denim blog Denimology posted a profile on Rising Sun. Thanks to Chris Nolan for doing the interview and listening to our story.

Be sure to check out the full story here.

2nd is published by the same folks who do Lightning magazine.