中职英语拓展模块 Unit 3 Fashion
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The Birth of Blue Jeans
Each time you step into your old jeans,you were putting on a piece of history.The world’s favorite trousers are now over one hundred fifty years old.The first jeans were made in 1850,in the California gold rush.A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold miners’normal trousers wore out too quickly.Strauss had bought some strong canvas,intending to make it into tents and wagon covers.Instead,he made some trousers out of it, and those were the first jeans--in brown at that time.The trousers sold well,and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even stronger.He found a material that was better than canvas—a kind of cotton cloth that was manufactured only in the south of France.Strauss ordered boat-loads of that material and,to keep color consistent,had it all dyed dark blue.The resulting trousers then became known as “blue jeans.”In the early days,cowboys,farmers and miners--all people who worked outdoors—wore jeans.But there were a few design problems with the early styles.When cowboys crouched too close to the campfire,the rivet used to strengthen the jeans in the crotch got too hot and made them very uncomfortable.Strauss didn’t take much notice of this until the 1940’s,when a company official experienced the problem first hand.The crotch rivet was soon removed!In the nineteen fifties and sixties,jeans became fashionable.Film stars like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe wore them,and so did pop stars like the Rolling Stones.Fashion changed in the seventies,and jeans became very very tight.If you could get the the zipper up while standing,they were not tight enough.You had to lie down on the bed to do them up.Thus the miners’ old work pants gradually have become more and more varied and today,over 150 years after their creation, “blue” jeans in various styles and a rainbow of colors are still very much in fashion.
蓝牛仔裤的诞生
每当你穿上旧式牛仔裤时，你在穿上一段历史。这种最受各国人喜爱的裤子到令天已经有了一百五十多年的历史。第一批牛仔裤是于1850年在加利福尼亚淘金潮中制作的。一个名叫李•施特劳斯的人意识到金矿里的矿工平常穿的裤子太快就破了。他买了一些结实的帆布，本想用来做帐篷和车篷，然而他却用它们做成了一些裤子，这就是世界上第一批牛仔裤——当时是棕色的。这些牛仔裤卖得很好，施特劳斯开始四处想办法把裤子制作得更结实些。他找到了一种比帆布更好的布料——一种仅在法国南部生产的棉布。施特劳斯订购了好几船这种布料。为了保持颜色一致，就把它们染成了深蓝色。后来这种牛仔裤就被称为“蓝牛仔裤”。开始的时候，牛仔、农民和矿工——所有在户外干活的人都穿牛仔裤。但是早期牛仔裤的款式设计上有些问题。当牛仔们蹲下来太靠近篝火的时候,裤裆处加固用的柳钉就太烫了，让他们感到很不舒服。施特劳斯对此没怎么在意，直到20世纪40年代一位公司的经理人员亲自体验到了这一问题。不久牛仔裤的裤裆处就不再用柳钉了。十九世纪五、六十年代，牛仔裤变得流行起来。影星像约翰•威恩和玛丽莲•梦露穿上了牛仔裤，还有流行歌手像滚石乐队的成员们也穿。到七十年代时尚有了变化，牛仔裤变得非常非常紧身。如果站着时你能把拉链拉上来，那裤子还不够紧身。你必须躺在床上才能把裤子拉链拉上才够紧。这样，矿工们的老式工作裤式样变化越来越多；牛仔裤诞生150多年后的今天，各种款式和各种颜色的牛仔裤仍然非常流行。
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