Jeans are everyone's best friend :)

Blue Jeans: The Art of The Ordinary written by Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward was an ethnographic study on the journey of the blue jeans. I found Miller and Woodward’s approach to blue jeans to be interesting because Miller and Woodward argued that blue jeans have continued to be a part of our culture due to the aspects and feelings that have been associated with the jean pants, and argued that these thoughts and feelings associated with blue jeans is why we continue to see the blue jeans generation after generation.  I found this aspect of feelings that clothes give us to be interesting because at the beginning of class when I first saw my dress my first question was how could this be comfortable for a woman to wear? I believe that Miller and Woodward believed that blue jeans became a corner stone in fashion because of the comfortable feeling that was associated with the jeans. Earlier in the semester we spoke about fashion and how fashion was not associated with feelings such as being comfortable. However, Miller and Woodward make the argument that jeans became and held being popular because the jeans are comfortable which would make blue jeans truly extraordinary yet blue jeans themselves are ordinary and worn day to day which is why many have fallen in love with them. There are not many similarities that are associated with the book and my object, however I do believe that blue jeans are truly an iconic fashion symbol in our society thus doing an ethnographic study is valuable and interesting. Everyone has a favorite pair of jeans; male/female, old/young jeans can be found in generation after generation.