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Title

Jeans : a cultural history of an American icon / James Sullivan.

Author

Sullivan, James, 1965 November 7-

Publication

New York : Gotham Books, c2006.

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Description

ix, 303 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Includes information on advertising, African Americans, baggy jeans, bell-bottoms, bib-front overalls, branding, Marlon Brando, Calvin Klein, consumer culture, counterculture, cowboys, James Dean, denim, designer jeans, fashion, Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, hippies, Hollywood, Jordache, Ralph Lauren, Lee, Levi Strauss & Co., low-rise jeans, Sasson, Sears, western frontier and western wear, Wrangler, etc.

Subject

Jeans (Clothing) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index.

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.

Call Number

JBD 07-156

ISBN

• 1592402143 (hardcover)
• 9781592402144

LCCN

2005035698

OCLC

62697070

Author

Sullivan, James, 1965 November 7-

Title

Jeans : a cultural history of an American icon / James Sullivan.

Imprint

New York : Gotham Books, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index.

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Research Call Number

JBD 07-156