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One of the oldest pairs of jeans was unearthed in 1998 from a pile of miners' trash. Levi Strauss & Co. bought the more than 100-year-old garment at auction three years later for $46,532.
Author Alice Harris begins her book, "The Blue Jean" (PowerHouse Books, 2002), by recounting the story and goes on to chronicle the history of jeans, the working man's pants that went from representing the height of proletariat utility to the height of bourgeois fashion.
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Fashion for women
