Attention Denimheads: This Is What Jeans Made in a 125-Year-Old Mill Look Like

There's a denim mecca in the middle of Greensboro, North Carolina. Inside a red brick building signposted only with the words Cone Mills Corporation, there are creaky old selvedge looms from the 1940s churning out some of America's most beautiful blue jean fabric. These magical pieces of industrial machinery are part of a company that has been around for more than 125 years and serves as one of the nation's last standing producers of denim. Cone Mills is a small fish in a big pond of high-tech d...