Tattered Jeans as the Fashion of the Popular Culture
In the fashion of popular culture in today's American society, jeans are perhaps the most often used by people of all socio-economic classes and fashion tastes. The jeans made its debut as a form of clothing when Levi Strauss, maker of the jeans brand Levi's, made the first pairs of jeans during the year 1853. The cloth that was used to make the first jeans were made of canvas cloth, which was originally intended to be used for the construction of tents by the coal miners during the Gold Rush of the 19th century. When it became apparent that what the people, especially the miners, needed were not tents and shelter but clothing, Strauss made these canvas cloths into men's trousers. Thus, the first pairs of jeans were born, and the popular jeans brand of Levi's was introduced to the world of American fashion.
Because of the comfort and endurance of jeans as clothing, jeans can be used until...
The functional use of the jeans made it popular, even after its wearability had been exceeded, which become apparent if the jeans are already torn or tattered. Although torn and tattered jeans are signs of the jeans limited wearability, the tradition of wearing jeans even if they are already worn out was popularized during the 1990s, a period wherein the American people have adapted the functionalist and 'worn-out' fashion of popular culture. During this period, haggard looks, thinness, and ruggedness became the trendy fashion of the society, and one of the symbols used to illustrate this new form of fashion was by wearing the torn or tattered jeans. This fashion genre proliferated because it is not expensive, since tattered jeans can be made out of one's old pair of jeans, or simply by styling one's pair of jeans to 'torn' or 'tattered' ones. Because of its ruggedness and radical simplicity, tattered jeans became a hit among the people,…
