Let's talk jeans. Love them or hate them?

[ea56]

I’ve been wearing Levi’s since I was a toddler. I can still see my Dad on his knees in front of me rolling up the cuffs on my stiff, new unwashed blue Levi’s with a Chesterfield hanging off of his lip. Mine and my little brother’s legs were so short that Dad had to cut some of the bottom of the legs off with a razor blade the first time we wore a new pair before he rolled up the cuffs.

Since I retired in the Summer of 2005 jeans are my daily uniform. I seldom wear any other kind of pant.

Eddie

 

[agiflow]

Been wearing jeans since the early 80s and overall prefer them.Lee was my favorite along with wrangler. Last 10 years or so been wearing Levi 501s.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Lots of YouTube videos but this is the only one suitable

This came on the radio, making me think about this thread...

 

And my mom sometimes mentioning what she referred to as "the blue jean crowd"...

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

 

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

About nine-minutes into this video, an executive for Levi Strauss actually said Elly Mae helped more sales of jeans in one year than cowboys did in one-hundred... This was for sales of jeans for women, prompting 3/4 off the cast (Jethro & Jed) being part of the Blue Jean Crowd:



And let's not forget my favorite episode, where the iconic Pat Boone guests, filling out a pair himself:



(it got me collecting a lot of his records & CD's too)



-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well watch this for the first 21-minutes, afterwards, to get the best view of the denim wearing when it became zeitgeist, at the end of this episode of Gomer Pyle USMC...

A frequently deserting from the base-marine on USMC, known as "Frisbee Franklin" notoriously leaving the platoon, captured by Sgt. Vincent Carter...

The GI, gone AWOL is caught when wearing jeans, as well as a denim jacket, at the end...

(Yes, my youthful self was told, he was Out of Uniform... No, military men don't dress like that--and a spoiler: he once again, gets away!)

Another spoiler: The episode actually is about Gomer minding the sergeant's car while he goes after the deserting marine, just for it to be stolen and wrecked...



-- Dave