Comments on: The Day Blue Jeans Were Born — Celebrating Levi Strauss & Denim https://hundredpercentcotton.com/style/levi-strauss-blue-jeans-denim/ Style, home & on the farm Sat, 01 Feb 2020 04:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Janice Person https://hundredpercentcotton.com/style/levi-strauss-blue-jeans-denim/#comment-872 Thu, 22 May 2014 19:52:06 +0000 https://janiceperson.com/?p=24503#comment-872 In reply to Robert Ratliff.

The beauty of Google and smartphones… so underappreciated by youth!

]]> By: Janice Person https://hundredpercentcotton.com/style/levi-strauss-blue-jeans-denim/#comment-871 Thu, 22 May 2014 19:50:21 +0000 https://janiceperson.com/?p=24503#comment-871 In reply to DebbieLB.

Sad and lazy? 🙂

]]> By: DebbieLB https://hundredpercentcotton.com/style/levi-strauss-blue-jeans-denim/#comment-870 Thu, 22 May 2014 13:02:26 +0000 https://janiceperson.com/?p=24503#comment-870 What would America be like without blue jeans?

]]> By: Robert Ratliff https://hundredpercentcotton.com/style/levi-strauss-blue-jeans-denim/#comment-869 Thu, 22 May 2014 05:23:04 +0000 https://janiceperson.com/?p=24503#comment-869 Twenty years ago, when I was employed with BASF in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina whenever business people from the BASF headquarters in Germany would visit in the USA, often visitors would ask us locals to take them to the local K-Mart or Walmart to buy blue jeans, typically after night of drinking and dining at a fine restaurant.

On one occasion we arrived about 9:00 pm and the store would close at 9:30 pm, thus we had to shop fast to buy the jeans.

However, Ludwigshafen, we have a problem.
The jeans all have English measurements
Now, panic ensues.

We rush outside to find a pay phone, (no cell phones twenty years ago) to make an overseas phone call to Germany to wake someone at 3:00 am local time to assist in translating their metric measurements for tight fitting jeans into equivalent English measurements.

With the added knowledge of measurements, we bribe the store manager — $100 cash –to allow us complete our shopping before closing the store.

Additionally, the person from Germany scouted the sales staff for someone near the size of his wife and bribed her — $100 cash — to assist him in selecting the proper size, including trying on jeans as a proxy for his wife.

Again, true stories easily exceed anyone’s possible fiction.
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]]> By: Janice Person https://hundredpercentcotton.com/style/levi-strauss-blue-jeans-denim/#comment-868 Wed, 21 May 2014 20:55:26 +0000 https://janiceperson.com/?p=24503#comment-868 In reply to Valerie Plagge.

🙂

]]> By: Valerie Plagge https://hundredpercentcotton.com/style/levi-strauss-blue-jeans-denim/#comment-867 Tue, 20 May 2014 21:35:28 +0000 https://janiceperson.com/?p=24503#comment-867 Happy Birthday Blue Jeans! I’m proud to be wearing a pair today (and pretty much everyday!). I’ll have to start checking my blue jean labels. I’m all for supporting today’s cotton farmers!

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