单项选择题
Blue jeans are probably the single most representative article of American clothing.They were originally (26) by Jacob Davis,a tailor from Nevada,(27),together with dry-goods sales man Levi Strauss,patented the idea as (28) clothing for miners in l873.Blue jeans,also (29) as work clothing,spread among workers of all kinds in the late l9th and early 20th centuries, (30) among cowboys,farmers,loggers,and rail road workers.During the 1950s, (31) Marion Brando and James Dean made blue jeans (32) by wearing them in movies,and jeans be。came part of the (33) of teenagers’rebelling.In the l960sand 1970s,this fashion statement exploded as LevI’s (34) a fundamental part of the youth (35) focused on both civil rights and antiwar protests. (36) the late1970s,almost everyone in the United States wore blue jeans, (37) youths all around the world sought after them. (38) designers began to create more complicated (39) of blue jeans and to (40) their fit,jeans began to express the American emphasis (41) informality and the importance of detail.By stressing the right label and (42) the right look,blue jeans, (43) their worker origins,satirically. Represented the status consciousness of American fashion and the (44) to get close to the (45) fashion.In 1971,Levi Strauss&Co.received the Coty Fashion Critics’Award,the highest award of the American fashion industry.
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