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The pants have become a tradition,and along the way have acquired a history of their own—so much so that the company has opened a museum in San Francisco.There was,for example,the turn-of-the-ccntury trainman who replaced a faulty coupling with a pair of jeans; the Wyoming man who used his jeans as a towrope to haul his car out of a ditch; the Calif ornian who found several pairs in an abandoned mine,wore them,then discovered they were sixty-three years old and still as good as new and turned them over to the Smithsonian as a tribute to their toughness.And then there is the particularly terrifying story of the careless construction worker who dangled fifty-two stories above the street until rescued,his sole support the Levi’s belt loop through which his rope was hooked.This is the story of a sturdy American symbol which has now-spread throughout most of the world.The symbol is not the dollar.It is not even Coca-Cola.It is a simple pair of pants called blue jeans,and what the pants symbolize is what Alexis de Tocqueville called “a manly and legitimate passion for equality.…” Blue jeans are favored equally by bureaucrats and cowboys; bankers and deadbeats; fashion designers and beer drinkers.They draw no distinctions and recognize no classes; they arc merely American.Yet they are sought after almost everywhere in the world—including Russia,where authorities recently broke up a teen-aged gang that was selling them on the black market for two hundred dollars a pair.They have been around for a long time,and it seems likely that they will outlive even the necktie.
The pants have become a tradition,and along the way have acquired a history of their own—so much so that the company has opened a museum in San Francisco.There was,for example,the turn-of-the-ccntury trainman who replaced a faulty coupling with a pair of jeans; the Wyoming man who used his jeans as a towrope to haul his car out of a ditch; the Calif ornian who found several pairs in an abandoned mine,wore them,then discovered they were sixty-three years old and still as good as new and turned them over to the Smithsonian as a tribute to their toughness.And then there is the particularly terrifying story of the careless construction worker who dangled fifty-two stories above the street until rescued,his sole support the Levi’s belt loop through which his rope was hooked.This is the story of a sturdy American symbol which has now-spread throughout most of the world.The symbol is not the dollar.It is not even Coca-Cola.It is a simple pair of pants called blue jeans,and what the pants symbolize is what Alexis de Tocqueville called “a manly and legitimate passion for equality.…” Blue jeans are favored equally by bureaucrats and cowboys; bankers and deadbeats; fashion designers and beer drinkers.They draw no distinctions and recognize no classes; they arc merely American.Yet they are sought after almost everywhere in the world—including Russia,where authorities recently broke up a teen-aged gang that was selling them on the black market for two hundred dollars a pair.They have been around for a long time,and it seems likely that they will outlive even the necktie.
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