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This is the story of a sturdy American symbol which has now spread throughout most of the world. The symbol is not the dollar. It is not even Coca-Cola. It is a simple pair ofpants called blue jeans, and what the pants symbolize is what Alexis de Tocqueville called"a manly and legitimate passion for equality---"Blue jeans are favored equally by bureaucrats and cowboys; bankers and deadbeats; fashion designers and beer drinkers.
无锡市疾控中心They draw no distinctions and recognize no class; they are merely American. Yet theyare sought after almost everywhere in the world --including Russia, where authoritiesrecently broke up a teen-aged gang that was lling them on the black market for two hundred dollars a pair. They have been around for a long time, and it ems likely that they will outlive even the necktie.四时田园杂兴其二
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This ubiquitous American symbol was the invention of a Bavarian-born Jew. His name was Levi Strauss. He was born in Bad Ocheim, Germany, in 1829, and during the European political turmoil of 1848 decided to take his chances in New York, to which his two brothers 正能量又不俗的小组名
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already had emigrated. Upon arrival, Levi soon found that his two brothers had exaggerated their tales of an easy life in the land of the main chance. They were landowners, they had told him; instead, he found them pushing needles, thread, pots, pans, ribbons, yam, scissors and buttons to houwives. For two years he was a lowly peddler, hauling some 18o pounds of sundries door-to-door to eke out a marginal living.
When a married sister in San Francisco offered to pay his way West in 1850, he jumped at the opportunity, taking with him bolts of canvas he hoped to ll for tenting.
