When I was a teen, every pair of jeans would need to be hemmed as they didn't make short back then, only longs. So automatically they'd need taken up at least 6 inches. We'd put on our platform shoes and use that length as a guide, so if you wore tennis shoes (we used to call them), the wide flares would drag on the ground creating that shaggy fringe. I would also sew patches on said jeans and jackets to patch actual holes and just to decorate. This was way before bedazzling existed of course. If you had a date or an impromptu party was announced (which consisted of someone buying a keg of beer while parents were gone), that required dressing up in the 1970's Midwest. So a trip to the local hippie shop for the blouse and and a quick run through the mall for the jeans was in order. The sew-job would be very haphazard and sloppy. You could see light thread every inch or so and if you didn't have time to iron, the bottom would be janky. But that's how it was done back then.
This was 1980, where the official jean of any decent house party became the LEVI's 501 Original fit. |
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