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Q. Blue jeans are not fashion. They are a cop-out for women too lazy to wear attractive clothing. What's the point of mentioning skinny jeans, boot-cut jeans or relaxed-fit jeans in a fashion column, when jeans were invented for shoveling horse manure out of the barn? Women should wear nice dresses like they did 40 years ago.
Khaki uniforms were invented for British soldiers fighting in India in 1848. Wristwatches were invented for women in the late 1800s. Does that mean only British soldiers should wear khaki pants, and women wrist watches? And that neither should be reworked and adapted as fashion items?
The essence of fashion is change. Utilitarian pieces are constantly being reinvented as fashion apparel. Today's low-rise, slim-cut, bejeweled fashion jeans would be most impractical for cleaning out the barn.
When Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss first created denim pants in 1873, they were intended as men's work wear. But those pants were gradually refined and restyled - for men and women. Like it or not, jeans have been a women's fashion staple ever since.
