I work on houses it’s hard, nasty, dirty job (Where’s Mike Rowe when you need him?) painting, concrete, drywall, plaster, saw dust and of course dirt. George Will said today in his article Demon Denim and I quote this mental midget of the working class…
Do not blame Levi Strauss for the misuse of Levi’s. When the Gold Rush began, Strauss moved to San Francisco planning to sell strong fabric for the 49ers’ tents and wagon covers. Eventually, however, he made tough pants, reinforced by copper rivets, for the tough men who knelt on the muddy, stony banks of Northern California creeks, panning for gold. Today it is silly for Americans whose closest approximation of physical labor consists of loading their bags of clubs into golf carts to go around in public dressed for driving steers up the Chisholm Trail to the railhead in Abilene.
This is not complicated. For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred
Astaire would not have worn it, don’t wear it. For women, substitute Grace Kelly.
Edmund Burke — what he would have thought of the denimization of America can be inferred from his lament that the French Revolution assaulted “the decent drapery of life”; it is a straight line from the fall of the Bastille to the rise of denim — said: “To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.” Ours would be much more so if supposed grown-ups would heed St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, and St. Barack’s inaugural sermon to the Americans, by putting away childish things, starting with denim.
George I don’t play golf, nor do I have a golf cart so is it ok for me to wear jeans? Or am I going to have to build houses or work on yards in a top hat and cane? There are some of out here in the REAL WORLD that still work with our hands, with our backs and yes even with our minds… I can do Trig, Algebra and Geometry in my head can you George Will? You look down your elelist nose in folks in jeans and think you are better than them and I dare say you could last a day in my jeans , but I also dare say I could last a day or a week or a month in your khakis. No problem, pinhead.
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