A young boy plays soccer in an alley as used pairs of jeans are hung to dry before they are sold in a second-hand clothes market in Kolkata, India. Most people own at least one pair of jeans, popular as they are. Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri
"My mother was a tailor, sewed my new blue jeans ...” cried Eric Burdon on The Animals’ take of House Of The Rising Sun. “If I ever get back my old blue jean, lord, how happy could one man be ...” rasped Billy Gibbons wistfully on ZZ Top’s slow burner Blue Jean Blues.
Jeans are an inextricable part of popular culture, and has been so since miners during the American gold rush of the 1850s first put on the tough piece of clothing apparel, designed by Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss, who improvised his design originally from brown cotton tent cloth.
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