1950s: Fashion
Newly confident in themselves after winning World War II (1939–45) and building an economy that was the envy of the world, Americans in the 1950s began to develop a fashion sense...
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Jeans
Jeans, or more commonly blue jeans, comprise the range of casual or work trousers made most often of indigo blue cotton denim with reinforced stitching at the seams and metal rivets placed at st...
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Blue Jeans
The denim pants that began as a working garment in the 1849 San Francisco Gold Rush and evolved in the 1980s to a designer status item were invented by peddler Levi Strauss (1829-1902). Str...
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Have you ever wondered who started the making of jeans or how jeans got started? Have you ever thought why do I wear them or why do other people wear them? Have you ever wondered why people do not ...
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If punk rock outlived its usefulness in 1978, post-punk effectively unplugged in 1984, and hardcore punk expired when Minor Threat released grave maker “Salad Days” in 1985 (although it...
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It is not uncommon for companies to have casual dress days or even allow employees to wear jeans on Fridays, but accounting firm Deloitte and Touche's Chicago office has taken this relatively routi...
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From Spring Street we looked through the picture window and saw a white marble bar filled with young women perched on stools, shopping bags at their feet. It was lunchtime, so the two of us decided...
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American political scientist and diplomat (b. Nov. 19, 1926,
Duncan, Okla.
—d. Dec. 7, 2006, Bethesda,
Md.
), was foreign policy adviser and UN ambassador (1981–85) under
U.S.
Pres...
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Don't declare the skinny jean dead. Although it has made very rare appearances so far during New York Fashion Week, it was a key item at the Miss Sixty show Thursday.The tweak for spring, after a f...
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The bid to build a master-planned development in Jean has stalled as a result of Southern Nevada
's current real estate slump.
MGM Mirage, which closed one of its two casinos in Jean, and American ...
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Levi Strauss arrived in wild San Francisco in 1853.The gold rush was on, but Strauss (1829-1902) had no guarantees that he would make his own fortune.Strauss, who was still a couple of decades from...
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Jean Kennedy Schmidt, one of the nurses dubbed the "Angels of Bataan" who were held prisoner in the Philippines during World War II, has died. She was 88.Schmidt died March 3 at her home from compl...
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The trend of leapfrog housing development outside of the Las Vegas Valley entered a new market this week when MGM Mirage and two developers announced a partnership to build a mixed-use project on 1...
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1950s: Fashion
Jeans
Blue Jeans
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