to stone-wash

Examples

• All

• To achieve a vintage look, many designers choose to stone-wash their denim before releasing it to the market.

• I observed during the long silence that half the kids in the room were wearing stone-washed jeans.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Teenagers in stone-washed jeans and Reeboks multiplied when no one was looking.

  Fiction book (1996)

• He was in what was probably a trademark white T-shirt and stone-washed blue jeans.

  Fiction book (1996)

• He was standing by the rail near the finish line in his stone-washed jeans and his blue-and-red New York Giants official team winter jacket.

  Fiction book (2000)

• When he first came to Los Angeles, Longoria had worked in a series of factories, including eight months in a garment sweatshop on Washington Boulevard, where his job was to tend to large vats of acid that turned regular blue jeans into "stone-washed" jeans.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The factory specializes in techniques that stone-wash various types of fabric to give them a worn appearance.

• He decided to stone-wash his old jeans to make them look more fashionable and trendy.

Synonyms

S

to stonewash

vsto stone-wash

1 5.1

To wash jeans with stones to make them look faded and softer

has identical meaning but is often written with a hyphen

How Faded

to bleach

50 3.2

to acid-wash

2 4.6

to stone-wash

• Specialized

1 4.6

wash

65 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology