TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Today I have some fun facts for you on blue jeans, but first you need to check out this video clip of TZ (editor of Laffaday) modeling some of our comfy jeans. The best part is that he starts strutting his stuff and doesn't realize these jeans were made for women! Ah, the goofy things my co-workers do to each other for a laugh...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."

HINT: (1856-1950), Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Italian sailors from Genoa, whom the French called Genes, wore cotton workpants. These pants became known as "genes." Eventually, the word morphed into "jeans."

Levi Strauss arrived in California during the Gold Rush, trying to sell canvas tents to miners, but he learned what the prospectors needed most were pants. He turned his tents into pants, but some complained the rough fabric chaffed. This caused Levi to switch to a twilled cotton imported from Nimes, France.

The cloth from Nimes was known as "de Nimes" or "denim." The term blue jeans finds its roots in the Nimes cloth that the Genoese dyed blue.

In 1885, a person could buy a pair of Levi's overalls for $1.25. By 1900, the company charged $8.50 for a pair of their famous blue jeans.

In 2005, an original pair of 501 Levi's aged more than 100 years were sold to a collector for $60,000. An original pair of Levi's jeans is part of the Smithsonian Institution's permanent collection.

In Spain, blue jeans are known as "vaqueros" or "cowboys;" in Danish "cowboybukser;" and in Mandarin Chinese "niuzaiku" - both of which translate literally to "cowboy pants."


VIDEO CLIP
Largest Pair of Jeans - Strange But True
Levis celebrated their 150th anniversary by producing the 'largest pair of jeans' which was displayed in Seol. These jeans are as tall as a 10 story building, and the back pockets are the size of a queen size bed.

Watch It Now: Largest Pair of Jeans - Strange But True


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."

ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw.

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