Jeans : a cultural history of an American icon /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Gotham Books,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- The perfect fit
- The sans-culottes: before the blue jean
- Tug-of-war: "those pants of Levi's," and the competition
- Dudes: selling the western frontier
- Modern pioneers: at work and play
- "A Hollywood-style tough": the 1950s and the fabrication f the teenager
- Classlessness: the politics of fashion
- After the gold rush: stylizing denim
- The diffusion of glamour: designers in the mass market
- "Thought abhors tights": sex in advertising
- Hand-me-downs: vintage and reproduction
- Wrapped in the flag: "America's gift" in the global era
- Bottoms up: blue jeans at a premium
- The process.