BE HONEST TO YOURSELF,
YOU CAN´T DENY FRIENDSHIP ...
we had fab times together: rockin, romance, sinfull & sleazy, adventures and even worst mistakes ... no matter if dark & clean, or faded & fu++ed up ... I was always with you. remember?
... TO A FRIEND LIKE ME,
YOUR FAVORITE PAIR OF JEANS
do you actually believe that wearing jeans changes people? will they become different persons when they either make loads of money or see a chance to make loads of money? my best friend, the washing machine doesnt think so. look at the sex pistols, fatfarm, rat stevens, tittgurl, the bollis, hollini, pruce ringsteen, marlow, pete ruder, pimp diddy, mik jacker or helvis presley for instance. these blocs make millions with their boring music and still are the same fun-luving pals. they never think of money in the first place. they are cool and relaxed, although they are sort of popular. so my friend is right. as long as people wear me, the will be always cool ... sort of. to be continued ...
The earliest known pre-cursor for jeans is the Indian export of a thick cotton cloth, in the 16th century, known as dungaree. Dyed in indigo, it was sold in the vicinity of the Dongarii Fort near Mumbai. Sailors cut it to suit them.
Jeans were first created in Genoa, Italy when the city was an independent Republic and a naval power. The first were made for the Genoese Navy because it required all-purpose trousers for its sailors that could be worn wet or dry, and whose legs could easily be rolled up to wear while swabbing the deck. These jeans would be laundered by dragging them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the sea water would bleach them white. The first denim came from Nîmes, France, hence de Nimes, the name of the fabric. The French word for these trousers was anchored around their word for Genoa. The French bleu de Gênes, from the Italian blu di genova, literally the "blue of Genoa" dye of their fabric, is the root of the names for these trousers, "jeans" and "blue jeans", today.
Circa 1872, jeans made a formal arrival in America. Levi Strauss was a Bavarian dry goods merchant living in San Francisco. One of Levi's customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co wholesale house. After one of Jacob's customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn trousers, he had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly. Jacobs did not have the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Levi suggesting that they both go into business together. After Strauss accepted Davis's offer, on May 20, 1873, the two men received patent ..
