Teachers provide a social and intellectual environment in which students can learn. James Macgregor Burns

The Stuff of American History Jeans Presenter: L.N. Petrova

Pp will -learn some facts about the development of American history Educational objective

Objectives: - To investigate people of what ages prefer jeans - To know what firms produce jeans - To find out where jeans came to Russia from - To learn more about the production of jeans - To compare the styles - To teach pupils to choose jeans correctly - To see the difference between original jeans and fakes - To create your own style

Gold Rush Miners in the USA

Levi Strauss

San Francisco

Genoa

Indigo- it is a plant, which dyes denim in blue colour.

Denim

Good looks and a good label

First Levi’s Label

Until the sixties, the design of jeans did not change at all. The standard remained 501s, and other competing brands simply copied them in a series of virtually identical versions. Jeans can be: “natural”, i.e. blue.

Jeans can be: “bleached”, when treated with chlorine.

Flared jeans

Worn-looking jeans with holes at the knees

Jeans can be: “stonewashed”, when they are washed in a machine with pumice stones which remove the colour in places and soften the fabric.

Painted hippy jeans

Baggy jeans

Jeans can be: “black”, when the indigo thread is replaced by black thread

Punk style

Frayed

Lady Levi’s Jeans -1938

Famous Jeans Labels: Levi Strauss Lee Motor Jeans Mustang Wrangler Diesel

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