If at any point you become frustrated during the six months (or more) that it takes to receive your pair of custom Ciano Farmer jeans, imagine yourself in a workshop just south of downtown Denton, amid the whirring of vintage sewing machines and the snipping of stainless-steel scissors. Picture the seams on a worn denim jacket being stitched by Ciano Farmer himself. The former New Yorker is upholding a tradition that thrived in the twentieth century, when North Texas, then home to companies like Dickies and Walls, was a major hub for American workwear manufacturing, producing denim and canvas jackets, pants, and shirts for laborers of all kinds.

Farmer served as creative director at Puma and vice president of design at Ecko Unltd. before moving to Texas in 2014 at the insistence of his

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