ANDIKA
JATI NUGROHO
140608050
JEANS
We live in new era. There are so
many things we have to change. One of them is about clothes. Now, I will talk
especially about jeans. Jeans becomes one of tradition in America. It had been famous
because of Gold Rush Era [an activities in the past, that search for gold, and
go to the west]. Then, the famous one about Jeans is Levis, established in 18th.
Let we discuss about it in any longer.
After I read from Mrs. Bening’s
book, here it is the information. In 1850, there was a man named Levi Strauss.
He learnt that pants sturdy pants would stand up to the rigors of the digging
in New York mining, were almost impossible to find. Then, he had a kind of
canvas tailored into a pair of stiff but rugged pants. The miner was delighted
with the result, word got around about “those pants of Levi’s,” and Strauss was
in business. The pants have become a tradition, and they adapt themselves to
any sort of idiosyncratic use. Along the way they 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 century 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 Californian who found several pairs in an
abandoned mine, wore them then discovered they were sixty three years old ad
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.
I tried to browse around the
Internet. But, I couldn't find much information. The only source I had is from
Mrs. Bening’s book. I don't know whether I didn't catch the accurate
information in the Internet or not. But, I won’t give up cause I won’t to be
regarded as a lazy person. I want to share something from what I got in life.
Jeans has many functions. I have an example. When I was a kid, I had so many
funs in cycling. It was my first time when I could use my bicycle. You must
know how happy a kid could ride their bicycle in the first time of their life.
While, my mom always asked me to use trousers or jeans when I was cycling. I
used to ignore that. But, one day, I fell from my bicycle. I trapped into the
ditch and my legs scratched by the edges. Luckily, I used my jeans. I didn't
know why I obeyed my mom at that moment. It had protected me from the sharp
edge. I just got small injury. Imagine if I used my short. It should be
dangerous. There was no protector for my legs.
It’s
just one of example in my life why Jeans could save someone’s life. I believe,
there are others thing that have similar moment with me. Jeans could save
someone’s life. Jeans has its strong material.
That’s the fact that jeans could do
something to someone’s life. Jeans is not only clothes or fashion. It is
something. Thanks for reading my assignment. I am sorry I got late for sending
my assignment. It happened because I had to go to Semarang yesterday and posted
in the last minutes of the deadline, but I missed my file. Then, I should make
it new again. Thank you.
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