In these matter of moments until we reach eternity, can someone tell me where to find a great pair of jeans?!!!! I'm about to go crazy! I really do have a silly problem. I go to find a pair of jeans...BAM!...in luck....I'm in the dressing room and found the perfect pair....take them home....wear them for an hour....they begin to fall off. I'm beside myself with two new pairs in my closet and they don't fit.
Oh the little blessings in life. They can be such torment.
Can I just share with you the history of this silly muck that I'm stuck in...
The history of denim,
the 18th century in the eighteenth century as trade, slave labour, and cotton plantations increased, workers wore jean cloth because the material was very strong and it did not wear out easily.
the 19th century: the California gold rush the gold miners wanted clothes that were strong and did not tear easily.in 1853, Leob Strauss started a wholesale business, supplying clothes. Strauss later changed his name from leob to levi.
the 1930's: westerns cowboys - who often wore jeans in the movies-became very popular.
the 1940's: war; fewer jeans were made during the time of world war 2, but they were introduced to the world by American soldiers, who sometimes wore them when they were off duty. after the war, rival companies, like wrangler and lee, began to compete with levi for a share of the international market.
the 1950's: rebels in the 1950's, denim became popular with young people. It was the symbol of the teenage rebel in TV programmes and movies ( James dean in the 1955movie rebel without a cause). some schools in the unbanned students from wearing denim.
the 1960-70's: hippies & the cold war; different styles of jeans were made, to match the 60's fashions:embroidered jeans, painted jeans, psychedelic jeans...in many non-western countries, jeans became a symbol of' western decadence' and were very hard to get.
I think that I'm going back to pants...starting a revolution!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
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