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eprom
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response 25 of 112:
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Jan 27 00:02 UTC 2006 |
Keep your laws off my body! I'm pro-choice when it comes to fashion.
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cross
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response 26 of 112:
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Jan 27 00:35 UTC 2006 |
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tod
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response 27 of 112:
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Jan 27 01:11 UTC 2006 |
re #24
Americans were still wearing wool trousers when jeans got popular in latin
countries. Jeans were considered "farm wear".
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keesan
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response 28 of 112:
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Jan 27 05:18 UTC 2006 |
Nobody was allowed to wear jeans to my schools. The elementary school boys
had to wear ties. String ties were acceptable, on collared shirts. I wore
sneakers and ankle socks with my skirts and did not need to wear collared
shirts. I wore pants under them in cold weather. I still recall one day in
kindergarten when I discovered I had forgotten to wear a skirt over the pants.
The pants came off when we got to school. We did not go outdoors for recess
in cold weather because we had to wear skirts.
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drew
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response 29 of 112:
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Jan 27 05:24 UTC 2006 |
I'm with eprom. I went to both types of school: one with a dress code, and
others with no dress code to speak of. The more lax school had the more
peaceful of students and school environment. Minimum do's and don'ts please.
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bru
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response 30 of 112:
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Jan 27 05:59 UTC 2006 |
my mother was a bit of a rebel, she forced the school board to allow us
to wear blue jeans to school.
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jadecat
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response 31 of 112:
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Jan 27 14:48 UTC 2006 |
re #28- I would have to say that in general the rules have significantly
changed from the times when you were in school.
When I was in school- and it's been almost 15 years sinceI graduated.
The main thing was a prohibition against t-shirts with 'foul language'
on them. But other than that, I can't really remember any other taboo
things.
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tod
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response 32 of 112:
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Jan 27 17:15 UTC 2006 |
I got sent home from high school for wearing a
"In G-d We Trust, Inc." Dead Kennedys t-shirt.
This was in a public school.
(Did I mention the principal that sent me home is now doing prison time?)
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rcurl
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response 33 of 112:
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Jan 27 18:37 UTC 2006 |
"The First Blue Jeans
"In 1962, the magazine American Fabrics ran an article that stated, "If we
were to use a human term to describe a textile we might say that denim is
an honest fabric - substantial, forthright, and unpretentious." So how did
this utilitarian and unpretentious fabric become the stuff of legends that
it is today? And how did pants made out of denim come to be called jeans,
when they were not made out of the fabric called jean? One very important
reason can be found in the life and work of a Bavarian-born businessman
who made his way to Gold Rush San Francisco nearly 150 years ago."
There is more about this, and the origin of "denim" and "jean", and other
interesting stuff, at http://www.levistrauss.com/about/history/denim.htm
So, "blue jeans" were invented by Levi Strauss, in the good old USA.
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tod
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response 34 of 112:
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Jan 27 19:22 UTC 2006 |
You know, my grandfather's uncle was part of the Gold Rush. They went out
west with funding from Hudson's. He later died from a mule kick.
I've got photos of the whole team that went with him out of Ohio.
Levi Strauss did not INVENT the blue jeans. He might have put the patent on
the fabric, but I guarantee you he didn't invent it.
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rcurl
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response 35 of 112:
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Jan 27 19:40 UTC 2006 |
Are you saying that article is incorrect? How would you correct it. It is not
just the *fabric* he is claimed to have invented. It is the item of clothing,
"blue jeans", with rivets and all, that it is claimed he invented.
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tod
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response 36 of 112:
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Jan 27 20:16 UTC 2006 |
That article is totally incorrect. Levi stole the invention of buttoning
pockets from the Yiddish guy Jacob Youphes from Latvia. Coverall were around
but they put a patent on the button that keeps the pockets closed under
Strauss's company. They were selling coveralls which were already around and
had been around for decades.
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nharmon
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response 37 of 112:
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Jan 27 21:47 UTC 2006 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim
"In 1789 George Washington toured a Massachusetts factory producing
machine-woven cotton denim."
Levi Strauss wasn't born for another 40 years.
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tod
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response 38 of 112:
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Jan 27 21:59 UTC 2006 |
Denim was invented and used by latin farmers.
The power of advertising can change history beliefs no doubt
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rcurl
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response 39 of 112:
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Jan 27 22:19 UTC 2006 |
This isn't about denim (or jean): this is about the assembled and colored
garment, in its entirety, offered for sale. Even admitting that all the
components and methods were used by others elsewhere, I gather no one
else brought them all together and made a mint selling the result, the
"blue jean".
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cross
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response 40 of 112:
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Jan 27 23:32 UTC 2006 |
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keesan
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response 41 of 112:
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Jan 28 00:31 UTC 2006 |
denim - de Nimes (from Nimes, France).
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tod
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response 42 of 112:
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Jan 28 01:11 UTC 2006 |
deMI Moore (from a trailer)
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happyboy
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response 43 of 112:
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Jan 30 02:35 UTC 2006 |
bubba, from a trailer, also wearing jeans!
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gull
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response 44 of 112:
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Jan 31 07:18 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:8: I don't see what the problem is, to be honest. When I was
in grade school some guys wore skirts as a protest -- girls were
allowed to wear skirts in hot weather, but guys weren't allowed to wear
shorts, and they thought it was unfair. I understand skirts for men
were a brief "grunge" fad in the 90s in the Northwest, and I still see
people wearing Utilikilts now and then. So far it doesn't seem to have
hurt anything or lead to the downfall of society.
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bru
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response 45 of 112:
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Jan 31 09:38 UTC 2006 |
I need to get me a utilikilt! of course, twila has been pushing to
have me get a kilt for years, but they are just to damned expensive.
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happyboy
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response 46 of 112:
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Jan 31 19:51 UTC 2006 |
lol.
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keesan
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response 47 of 112:
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Jan 31 20:49 UTC 2006 |
I once wore a skirt to school when I was a grad student, to protest the fact
that our visiting professor was told by the department head that she had to
teach in skirts or dresses. She had some very nice pantsuits much more
suitable for New England weather. The dept. head was surprised at my attire,
asked the reason, and after that the visiting professor wore her pantsuits.
Jim wears t-shirt swimming to protest the fact that I have to wear tops.
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tod
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response 48 of 112:
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Jan 31 21:02 UTC 2006 |
Was it severely out of character for you, Cindy? I love when women wear
skirts usually.
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jadecat
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response 49 of 112:
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Jan 31 21:10 UTC 2006 |
I like being able to wear a variety- pants, skirts, shorts- whatever
works for the occasion.
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