{"id":1430,"date":"2014-09-07T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2014-09-07T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:48:19","slug":"jean-fad-fraying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/07\/jean-fad-fraying\/","title":{"rendered":"JEAN FAD FRAYING?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; obsession with jeans is beginning to run thin.\u00a0 Sales have fallen 6% during the past year after years of steady growth.\u00a0 Nothing is more comfortable for day and dressed up for evening wear.\u00a0 Why the decline?\u00a0 People more often are sporting yoga pants, leggings, sweatpants and other athletic wear.\u00a0 Since colored skinny jeans were a hit a few years ago, nothing new.\u00a0 Sales of yoga pants &amp; other &#8220;active wear&#8221; increased 7% last year.\u00a0 That also lead to &#8220;stretchy&#8221; jeans.\u00a0 Businessman Levi Strauss &amp; tailor Jacob Davis invented jeans in 1873 and patented the rivet for stronger pockets.\u00a0 By the 1920s Levi&#8217;s original 501 jeans were the top-selling men&#8217;s workpants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MORE TO COME NEXT BLOG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; obsession with jeans is beginning to run thin.\u00a0 Sales have fallen 6% during the past year after years of steady growth.\u00a0 Nothing is more comfortable for day and dressed up for evening wear.\u00a0 Why the decline?\u00a0 People more often are sporting yoga pants, leggings, sweatpants and other athletic wear.\u00a0 Since colored skinny jeans were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}