Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon by James Sullivan

Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon

James Sullivan
320 pages
Gotham; 1St Edition edition
Aug 2006
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The story of America’s best-loved garment, from the humble pants Levi Strauss sold to California miners in the 1870s to big-city socialites spending big money—$300 and up—for premium jeans today Since their emergence over a century and a half ago, blue jeans have been worn by every segment of American society, and exported around the world as a symbol of our civilization. In Jeans, James Sullivan traces the evolution of jeans from a simple utilitarian garment into what fashion critics have called "the American uniform," the very embodiment of our society’s ethos. Beginning with the adoption of front-buckled trousers as a style of dress in nineteenth-century America (derided as "fornication pants" by Mormon leader Brigham Young), Sullivan tells the story of the riveted blue jeans’ humble origin as "waist overall" work pants.
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Pages 320
Publisher Gotham; 1St Edition...
Published 2006
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