Some Americans even consider jeans to be the national uniform or costume. Unlike any garment of the past, a pair of jeans have the unique ability to camouflage the beholder from class distinction, background and status. Blue jeans have evolved from a garment associated exclusively with hard work to one associated with leisure. As a result of this phenomenon, jeans have the ability to conceal class distinction. This power to overcome class distinction accounts for its popularity.
Blue jeans personify America.
They embody the notion that their country of origin was founded on the principles of anti-status, democracy and inclusiveness. Jeans that prisoners wore became the symbol of revolt against social rules. A New Folk Art . Harry N. Abrams, 1975. Transaction Publishers, 1992.