Fred Davis’ Blue Jeans

Notes:

• “There are no distinctions of wealth or status, elitism: people confront one another shorn of these distinctions.”- Charles A. Reich, The Greening of America
• Jeans were worn for the working class mostly famer work
• Bikers and hippies
• Spread in North America And Western Europe
• Middle class
• Late 1950 jeans were seen in outdoor place focusing on middle class young boys
• Rise of blue jeans in sales
• Jeans were not just for Cowboys anymore
• They gave people invidiousness when wearing a pair
• People that took risk wore jeans
• 1990 started to see in Men’s Fashion
• Young, the main target of selling jeans
• Different types of things that you could do to jeans. Faded, acid wash, frayed or ripped
• Other pieces of clothing made out of denim
• Gender
• Prices roughs with supple and demand
• Designers placing their label outside of their jeans
• From famer to high fashion

 

Question: In your journal, brainstorm a list of brands of jeans and then note which you currently wear, would like to wear, or would never consider wearing. Reflect on the image associated with each brand. How does image affect your taste in attire?

 

Response:

• Levi’s (Love the quality but have not owned a pair)
• Lucky Brand (Have not worn before but will consider buying a pair)
• Guess (Not interested in buying a pair of jeans)
• Calvin Klein (Comfort and fit is great. One of my favorite pairs of jeans)
• Lee Jeans (Have not worn a pair before but will consider buy or trying them on)
• Wrangler Jeans (Don’t know personally just have heard of the name)
• Armani Jeans (Not interested in buying)
• Diesel (I won’t a pair)
• American Eagle (They’ll get the job done but very stretchy and can be a problem for me)
• Express Jeans (Love, they have not let me down yet)

Advertisement is everything when you’re trying to sell a pair of jeans. Jeans is a motile billion-dollar company. Companies try to compete with each other because jeans can start to look the same. The image that they choices to represent their company is important of how they are trying to lab their selfies. I think it’s interesting that they advertise a skinny woman wear the jeans. When the population of their customers does not have that type of body. This does not help me buy a pair of jeans. While thinking of it I don’t really think anything about a poster trying to sell jean because I don’t see myself wear them. I have to go into the story and touch the fabric to feel the quality, how it fits. That’s how I judge a pair of jeans.

 

Who Gets to Wear Shredded Jeans?

By Troy Patterson

Notes:

• Having a personal bound with your jeans
• Coat can be from a dollar to 1,000
• Famous people wear jeans to the extreme
• Punk rock
• Ripped on the knee caps
• Acid wash jeans
• Buying a pair that looks distressed jeans all ready at the store
• Social standard with ripped jeans
• Trashed jeans, rebel person
•  Environment, doing things to the jeans can affect to the environment in the long run

 

Feb. 8, 2016

Blue Jeans: 1873

 

1. 1873 is when the jeans were invented. During this time, the West coast and  Mid-West was booming with people in the gold rush. Working on farms paining for gold, this is also a time when you lowly see woman worker right beside men in the work felid.

The button up blouse was worn by women when they would work outside in the fields and the style of pant that is shown on the left is a typical style of jeans that would be wound during this time. The image on the right is an ad for Levi’s during this time.

2. Blue jeans were worn mostly by man and women that was working on the fields. The marital was great for keeping worm and cool because of the cotton that is woven together. And another great thing about jeans is you can wear them multiple time before wash.
3. A couple of things that have changed in the jeans is from flap and how that has changed to zippers and the back yok on the jeans have changed.

Buttons and rivets was a big part of a pair of jeans. Levi’s was well known for their rivets on their jeans but for those who made their own jeans used buttons to hold things into place. Women usually did not wear jean pants but they did wear jeans button up blouses.

Mood Board

Feb. 15, 2017

Trip to the Thrift Store

Monday I took a trip to L Train Vintage to find a denim long sleeve or jacket. I found a long sleeve button up that was only $5.00. Then, for the materials to uses to embellish the button up. My mentor has a bunch of scraps of fabric that he is let me use for this project.

Feb. 22, 2017

Making Process

1.) Put the ruffle pink trim on the collar by hand sewing the top and then for the bottom sewing it on the sewing machine.

2.) Hand sewed the pink ruffle trim on the cuff of the sleeves. On top of the cuff added black trim with the sewing machine.

3.) Machine sewed the pink ruffle trim on the bottom of the shirt.

4.) Added black ruffle trim to the back of the shirt and added a gold stud. Tacked down the ruffles to the top to lay down by hand sewing.

5.) Added black velvet ruffle to the shoulder, down the middle of the shirt and across the logo on top of the pocket all machine sewn.

6.) Created a V line cross the chest with the black ruffle, sewn on the machine. Hand tacked parts of the ruffle to lay down.

7.) Add a gold stud to the pocket.

The reason way I choices to do ruffles was because I saw a lot of women wearing ruffles skirts during this time. Looking at the photos during the time, women would have ruffles on the cuffs of the sleeves and collar as detail. Adding the diagonal line across the chest was to play with the idea of the collar line that women would have on their clothing. I lot of the inspiration was taken from the styling of womens clothing during the 1870’s and making it with my own style.