Blue Delta Jeans is featured on LinkedIn’s Beyond the Call list, which highlights the nation’s top 20 companies who are going above the call of duty in the face of the pandemic. Blue Delta retooled its factory in a matter of days, installing partitions to protect workers who’d once worked in open spaces and testing new materials to make masks.
This bespoke service—which has made Blue Delta popular with traditionally hard-to-fit folks such as professional athletes, including Dak Prescott and Eli Manning—takes four to six weeks to complete, and the resulting pants will endure for years.
“The Ryder Cup partnership is a game-changer for us,” said BDJ chief executive officer Josh West. “This will allow our brand to be on an international stage. As a golf fan, it’s an honor to put our made in America product on the U.S. team.”
Mississippi could be the answer to your search for that perfect pair of blue jeans. Josh West wrote the business plan for Blue Delta Jean Co. on a napkin over dinner in Tupelo in 2009. He was catching up with a high school buddy, Nick Weaver, from South Pontotoc High School.
It’s the Holy Grail of blue jeans — the pair that fits you so perfectly, it’s like they were made just for you. They’re crafted from the perfect weight and color of denim, with the perfect color of thread and hardware that you couldn’t have done a better job of picking out yourself.
Blue Delta Jeans, the only makers of bespoke jean apparel in the South, will be opening their first brick-and-mortar store in Oxford during Double Decker weekend. The company, founded in 2010 by Oxford native Nick Weaver and business partner Josh West, specializes in bespoke raw-denim jeans sourced and produced in the American South.