Blue Jeans

Who would think that there is so much to uncover behind a pair of blue jeans? I would have never even thought about any type of relationship to blue jeans and people if it wasn’t for the book Blue Jeans, The Art of the Ordinary by Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodard. Blue jeans are something that a lot of us wear frequently. Not only blue jeans but clothes in general. What is it that influences us to wear what we wear? One of the ideas that Miller talks about is the relationship between parent and child. I agree that parents have an influence on what children wear. As the child grows up their choices still might reflect the influences of the earlier years one way or another. Darren is a man who is interviewed in the book along with his father about their clothing choices. Although the two men might not now wear the same type of thing, both of them tend to wear things that make them stand out. Darren’s father claims that this is because of him and that his son now does that same thing, wearing clothing that makes him stand out. That influence of Darren’s father when he was a kid is the reason that Darren dresses the way that he does now.

When I think about the Fianna Grube’s wedding dress, I am curious if her mother, father, or even fiancé at the time had any influence of the color, style etc of the dress. Perhaps her mother wore a dress such as the one that she did. Maybe Martin Peiffer preferred his bride to be in blue and brown and that is why she chose those colors. Fianna could have be influenced not by a person but by fashion in her day from reading Godey’s Lady Book and Magazine. We will never know for sure why Fianna chose the dress that she did, perhaps it was just because she liked it and it was comfortable for her.

In Miller and Woodard's book he finds out something that most of the people who he interviewed had something in common and that was that jeans are comfortable to wear. People wear certain things because that is what makes them feel comfortable. This feeling of comfort then eases the mind. Interesting, how the articles of clothing you are wearing can make you feel a specific way. Think about the clothes that you choose to wear and how they make you feel. Fianna’s wedding dress may have been comfortable for most brides it was probably made not for comfort but for her to feel beautiful.