SAN FRANCISCO — From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Company says, or enough to fill about 15 spa-size bathtubs. That includes the water that goes into irrigating the cotton crop, stitching the jeans together and washing them scores of times at home.
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Whether you love them or hate them, wide-leg jeans are back in style this spring. There is a trick to wearing them, however. Some women tend to shy away from this particular cut because they believe the wide leg makes them look heavy. But they can actually make you look rather slim if you wear them the right way.
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A New Yorker named Kate (Catherine Keener) refuses to spend $200 on jeans for her 15-year-old daughter. Not, she says, “when there are 45 homeless people living on our street.” Kate will, however, buy modern mid-century furniture from the relatives of the recently deceased, mark the pieces up and sell them in the vintage store she and her husband, Alex (Oliver Platt), operate.
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Shari Raymond remembers watching her father, Charles C. Bowlin, pile dozens of sweatshirts and jeans on a store checkout counter.
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American Eagle Outfitters Inc. sold plenty of jeans , shorts, T-shirts and woven shirts to drive sales in established stores up 15 percent in March, making for a more festive spring break than last year, when the South Side teen retailer saw that sales number drop 16 percent
NECKS craned for a glimpse of Patti Smith as she settled at her customary corner table at Da Silvano in Greenwich Village, a favorite afternoon haunt, earlier this month. The wonder was that the patrons, silver haired and sleekly buffed, could pick her out at all. Ms. Smith was understated, even self-effacing in her mannish jacket, boater shirt and beat-up jeans. Watching her sip hot water and …
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ONE thing you may not have known about Elvis Presley and his peculiar fashion choices is that he never liked wearing jeans. Another is that, evidently, he considered a gun to be an accessory.
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THE big issues and tough questions are what concern us here in Style Land. Let other people fret about the recession, health care and the future of Conan O’Brien’s pompadour. What troubles us is how the male consumer’s simplest decision somehow became the most difficult and fraught. Why, that is, are blue jeans, that most blameless and universal item of apparel, the one thing men always get wrong?
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The urge to find silver linings in the recession’s clouds is understandable. But the vogueish insistence that Americans will rediscover the simple life — forgoing new cars and Texas-size TVs, perhaps stitching designer jeans from homespun cotton — is wishful thinking.
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Jim Getty bears a striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, even when he’s just in jeans and a T
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