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Take Away English 随身英语 8 March 2012 Why does everyone wear jeans? 风靡全球的牛仔裤 英语学习点: Vocabulary: popular trends 潮流与时尚 Its difficult to find a garment as widely embraced, worn and loved as jea ns. The denim trousers are a staple of wardrobes around the world. But why? Anthropologist Danny Miller has just written a book on the subject. He says that in every country hes visited, almost half the population wore jea ns. They were designed as work-wear for labourers in Americas Western states in the late 19th Century. When a Nevada tailor called Jacob Davis was Jeans are popular around the world. asked to make a pair of sturdy trousers for a local woodcutter, he had the idea of reinforcing them with rivets. They proved extremely durable and were soon in high demand. Jeans represented the American West and when they started to be worn as casual wear, they were a symbol of rebellion. They were banned in schools, which only added to the fervour with which young people embraced them. Outside America the trend was beginning to catch on too. Many of the GIs stationed abroad during the war were working-class boys from the Western states. While off duty they wore their jea ns proudly as a symbol of home. The trousers represented an easier, happier, American way of life, which Europeans wanted to buy into. Miller argues they have become so mainstream that they are now a symbol of the ordinary - a garment people put on to feel comfortable and to fit in. But according to Paul Trynka, author of Denim: From Cowboys to Catwalks, there is still something in their symbol of youth and casualness, that puts jea ns beyond the reach of certain people. Famously, George W Bush and Tony Blair went out on the street in denim during their first summit meeting. They wanted to show they were regular guys but of course, says Trynka, they both looked like dorks. 词汇表请参看答案与词汇部分 Take Away English 随身英语 © Brit ish Broadcast ing Corpor