z art of jeans
Z ART OF BLUE JEANS
Simply saying "I wear blue jeans" understates the art in the experience. It's like saying I saw the Mona Lisa, or I play video games. In all cases the body is not a passive participant. It is fully engaged and is a part of the Art! The art of being, of feeling, of living each moment... in an environment of choice as beautifully and naturally as a dolphin wears water, senses the ocean and breaches the surface in playful maneuvers.
One pours ones genes into jeans to have ones buttocks, hips, crotch and legs scuplted by the fabric of the earth -cotton, and the feel of its most popular artiste -Denim! Just as fine wine or a good brew is poured into an elegant wine glass or hardy stein is sculpted... tastefully and temptingly, enhancing the experience and the environment as any worthwhile work of art must do.
So you don't simply put on jeans... your lower body drinks the jeans... and they drink you! Its like diving feet first into a blue liquid-like world. And, in a world that is drunk on jeans... That's A Good Thang!!
Once the body is poured into a pair of blue jeans how you stand... sexy, sassy or solid, carefree or cocky produces a ripple effect of airwaves... fabricating an atmosphere of intent, as only denim skin can. Relaxed, yet forward. Playful, yet Working . Casual, yet committed.
The jeans' style is a species... low rise, vintage, kick flare, boot-cut, 501, torn, twisted, rustic, baggy, industrial, skate, mushrooms, rub, mosha, and on, each lets the other animals know where you at... with the body ... and the brain!
Hooking your thumbs through the belt loops, or putting your hands on your hips while kicking that ass off to one side or the other is a cool wave. I get that! Tucking your hands in your pockets, with thumbs out -sometimes through the belt loops, with feet squared or while leaning against a pole or something is more of an inner-wave -and thats alright too.
Now, when it comes to strut'n in blue jeans that's a whole new wing, or two, in z art of jeans!
planet blue
PLANET BLUE
"Among the derivations of the word, I especially like blavus, from medieval Latin, and the earlier, more classical, flavus, for the discolorations of a bruise, so that it sometimes meant yellow, with perhaps a hint of green beneath the skin like naughty underclothes. Once, one blushed blue, though to blush like a blue dog, as the cliché went then, was not to blush at all.
So a random set of meanings has softly gathered around the word the way lint collects. The mind does that. A single word, a single thought, a single thing, as Plato taught.
We cover our concepts, like fish, with clouds of net.
Cops and hobbies wear blue. We catch them and connect. Imagined origins reduce the sounds of clash and contradiction, as when one cries out blue murder in the street.
There's the blue for baby boy, the blue of blue sky laws, blue for jeans, blue for hogs. The coal fish, a salmon, the glut-herring, a kind of trout, are said to have blue-backs and are named so in Yorkshire, Maryland, Virginia, Maine.
From earliest times it's been the badge of servitude: among the Gauls, to humiliate harlots in houses of correction, as the color of a tradesman's apron, for liveries and uniforms of all kinds, the varlet's costume.
We might remain with such wonders: as blue as . . . as blue as . . . for good and forever."
-WILLIAM GASS - On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry.
"I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and its degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins...so I went back to blue jeans after my degenerate period.
-ANDY WARHOL-
"BLUE.--Few words enter more largely into the composition of slang, and colloquialisms bordering on slang, than does the word BLUE.
Expressive alike of the utmost contempt, as of all that men hold dearest and love best, its manifold combinations, in ever varying shades of meaning, greet the philologist at every turn.
A very Proteus, it defies all attempts to trace the why and wherefore of many of the turns of expression of which it forms a part."
-FARMER AND HENLEY- Slang and Its Analogues
"Baby makes her blue jeans talk." -DR. HOOK-
"God made jeans with Frank in mind. He puts them on, I go crazy. -KATHIE LEE GIFORD-
Blue jeans and trucks,
Scrapes on his knees,
Running in the dirt
Being a tease
Making a face
Build and destroy
There’s nothing like
Just being a boy!
-- Author: unknown --
JEANS AT JEFFERSON HIGH
On April 9, 1953, the student council was in a tizzy about the matter of girls wearing jeans. Today, jeans are the main part of atypical wardrobe for boys and girls. However, in the fifties, it was considered improper for girls to wear any pants at all.
Girls were expected to wear skirts, not sophisticated straight skirts, but frilly ball-gown type skirts. Now, it's not like the skirts weren't stylish. Poodle skirts, for instance, were quite nice and very popular. But one could understand the desire, especially in winter, to wear a nice pair of blue jeans.
At this particular meeting, it was suggested (by a male member of the council) that girls be permitted to wear their jeans only on Thursday, and no more was said on this matter. [Jefferson HS Website]
SHORTY - THE HAPPIEST MAN IN TOWN
"I supported my wife for fifteen years," said Shorty. "Why in hell shouldn't she support me for awhile now? It's only fair, ain't it? Sure it is."
He was about five-feet-four, an absurd swaggering little Frenchman with bright pop eyes behind spectacles and an eternal toothy grin on his dark wrinkled monkey-face.
His barking laugh and his ceaseless chatter, his high-spirited ribaldry and colorful profanity, made the jaunty devil-may-care Shorty a town character. Nothing ever daunted or depressed him.
He had little in the world and he asked for little. No property, no automobile, no money in the bank, no clothes, and no prospects for the future. Yet they said Shorty was the happiest man in town.
He dressed always in blue jeans, a faded blue workshirt open at the neck, or a dirty cotton undershirt in warm weather. His arms, shoulders and body was surprisingly muscular and tanned to a saddle-brown.
His little frame was sturdy and healthy. A railroad cap was tilted crazily on his head, a cigarette rested behind one ear. After a few ales Shorty talked endlessly and inanely, a ridiculous flow of nonsense, sometimes humorous, sometimes boring.
When Shorty got going good the barroom, his daytime habitat, would reecho with good-natured protestations -- "Tune that thing down." -- "Shut that noise off."
Source: AMERICAN LIFE HISTORIES: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940.
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stars & jeans
STARS & JEANS
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
Diana Vreeland
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I'm a jeans girl!
Kelly Clarkson
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
Cameron Diaz
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They're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not going to go too far with it. Maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that they're so poor they've never touched anything in their lives. Let them touch those things for once.
Celine Dion
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One thing about white people is that in their videos they don't care. They can go out in cut-up jeans and do a video, and it'll be large.
Missy Elliot
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I wear carefully faded designer jeans and I once met Marlon Brando and I even bought a drink for the Aga Khan but he would not shake my hand.
Jon English
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On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.
Julia Roberts
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If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?
Brooke Shields
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I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
Ed O'Neill
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My favorite things are Cigarettes, coffee, old jeans, holidays on little exotic islands, music - Bjork, Sigur Ros, Morcheeba, Garbage - and just driving around at night.
Franka Potente
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On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.
Jewel Kilcher
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He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward).
Ellen Karsh
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The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
Dylan McDermott
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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
Brad Holland
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I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheeseburger.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Jeans witha pair of killer heels will take you anywhere!
Cat Deeley
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One way or another, I've spent a lot of time in breeches and boots lately. I'm pretty sick of hanging round in frilly shirts. It makes you long to get back into your jeans!
Jonny Lee Miller
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No. When I was younger I was a big tomboy. But I have not recently been 'the guy.' I have always been, you know, 'the girl.' I think it is because I wear the Stiletto shoes and the pointy heels and the tighter jeans.
Michelle Trachtenberg
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"Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand." - Elton John, Tiny Dancer
leg*acy
BLUE JEANS LEG*ACY
"You should have brought pants!" With that statement the seed that grew the legacy of blue jeans was planted. The year was 1850. The California gold rush was in full bloom when Loeb Strauss (he changed his name to Levi), a 20-year-old Bavarian immigrant, arrived in San Francisco from New York City.
As was generally the case when someone new arrives with a wagon of goods, a prospector asked Strauss what he was selling. When young Levi replied - some rough canvas to make tents and wagon covers, the prospector said, "You should have brought pants! I can't find a pair of pants strong enough to last". So Levi had the canvas made into pants.
While canvas pants were tough enough to last, and the miners liked that. The problem now was the miner's skin as canvas as a way of chafing (especially ones delicates). So Levi again listened to the market and found a twilled cotton cloth, made in France, called "serge de Nimes," which, over time, was simply called denim.
BLUE GOLD
Little did Levi know he struck Blue Gold. At least at first. But the legend of the "Bibless", or "Waist Overall", as they were called, spread across the land and later, in the 1950's became popularly known as Blue Jeans.
While Levi Strauss is credited with "inventing blue jeans", because he was successful, and got patents that secured his name in product history. It must be pointed out that immigrant weavers from Yorkshire, England, produced heavy "fustians" (cotton-twill jeans) from a cloth mill in Massachusetts as early as 1638.
In 1789, history records that George Washington was given a tour of a denim and jean mill in Massachusetts. In 1849 a New York manufacturer ran a series of classified ads for "topcoats, vests and short jackets in blue jean". Perhaps, Loeb saw these ads as he left NY for CA a year later?
Also, I came across this wonderful bit of blue jean history:
"At 21, in a blue and white striped cotton shirt, a one-bit hat, and blue jeans rolled up six inches from his socks, Abraham Lincoln appeared to his friends to be "as ruff a specimen of humanity as could be found." [Source: James Q. Howard, May 1860, (writing about Lincoln in his youth during Lincoln's run for President) Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress]
I actually made a liitle history myself in doing research for this page when I discovered an error in the Lincoln letter and blue jeans history timeline. I alerted the U.S. Library of Congress, who in turn sent me this email:
Hello Claude,
Thank you for taking the time to let us know of this error on the Learning Page. What a good eye you have :-) We will get that fixed, asap. Best wishes for the new year...
Leni Donlan
The Learning Page Project
Educational Outreach, Library of Congress
(V)202/707-0805 (FAX)202-707-3735
http://www.loc.gov/learn
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Blue Jeans are now sold in over One Hundred countries! The Blue Gold Rush has been going on for over 150 years! And it shows no signs of going bust anytime soon! New companys, with the pioneering spirit and fortitude of the best California gold rush prospectors, are constantly finding new ways to hit pay dirt. "There's gold in dem der *hills*" takes on a whole new meaning! in the State of Blue Jeans!!
Blue Jeans are a thread that binds humanity together. Young and old. Rich and poor. Every shade, for most any weight. Liberal or conservative. Male or female (and everthing inbetween). Green or Red. Priest or Pagan. Alive or dead... folks got on some blue jeans! (Rumor has it the Pope wears a pair of blue jeans under his robe! <:-)
Note: the guy running, without his pants, is going to get him some blue jeans!!
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