This documentary explores why jeans are the most complex item in your wardrobe
, is a documentary that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about the origins of your favorite denim.
Contemporary in its approach, the film, which was written, directed, and produced by Anna Lee Strachan and Michael Bicks, problematizes its subject in order to offer a broader and more inclusive way of looking at history, placing jeans at the nexus of politics, identity, and fashion. “Jeans are the perfect, quintessentially American item through which to examine the complex story of America,” said Cameo George, the executive producer ofin a statement.
In order to talk about jeans, it’s first necessary to consider the cultivation of cotton and indigo dyeing.starts rewriting history here, before moving on to Levi’s. We learn of the contributions of enslaved people from West Africa to the craft of dyeing, which is usually credited to a woman named Eliza Lucas.
The story of jeans, as we know them, revolves around labor, leisure, youth, and status, and begins in the 1930s. It’s then that they transitioned from being primarily functional to fashionable as well. At dude ranches wealthy patrons donned the cowboy’s working uniform for leisure rather than labor.
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