After reading "The Ends Justify The Jeans", it explains how the fashion statement of jeans can change society and to people to wear them. Originally, jeans were worn for those for work on hard labor but the material came from horse blankets. Back in the 1800s, the rich couldn't bear the sight and look of denim jeans that they themselves can't wear. Jeans back then were only for farmers or laborers and it was the law that they had to wear it. Later in the fifties, denim blue jeans were a sign of rebellion or turning your back against what society wants you to be. Not to mention an insult to the fashion world way of style. Its not just a look for jeans but what it can do to change the rules like protesting against the war and having a strong belief in what you like to do in your life whether you're a man or a woman. Women have always set the standard for fashion and style but not every woman dress alike, even sometimes break the rules on how women should be dressed like like in the feminist movement in which they wore blue jeans as a way to say they want to be liberated. These days jeans are everywhere and sometimes its considered rebellious due to the fact the people, young people mostly, don't like to dress casually because its uncomfortable and in other ways gives a sex appeal to look great.
Personally I don't wear jeans not because they don't look good on me but because it just doesn't fit my sense of style. I remember back when I was in highschool I used to wear jeans for a few months until I looked in the mirror and saw that I looked like a guy working at a steel mill for a whole day. I respect the look of jeans and their appeal but sometimes people think to hard on their meaning like this show I watched one time when two mothers were swapped between two familes. One mother came from a family who dresses freely as they like while the other mother dresses as the Bible says to do and so did her family. At one point, the free mother told the other mom's daughters to dress in jeans but the father forbid it saying that it was the devil's clothes and that the girls should only dress in dresses because the Bible says so. Now I'm a Christian too but when he said that, I thought that he was an idiot and completely overreacting to a pair of blue jeans not to mention sexist. What's funny is that their friends are Christian too but they are wearing jeans and they have no problem with that.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Interesting observations, Vanessa! Do you see any connection between your dislike of wearing jeans and what they have represented historically, according to the article?
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