Accidentally created by Italy's Rifle jeans company in 1986, what '80s fashion trend became mass-produced by a company called American Garment Finishers using Potassium Permanganate?

In 1986, Rifle Jeans accidentally tumbled some pants and pumice stones with bleach in a washing machine The result was acid-washed jeans. Eventually, the look was mass produced by American Garment Finishers and offered it to Levi Strauss. The look, in which jeans were splotchy white, became mainstream by the late '80s.

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