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Did you know your jeans are an actual piece of history?

Jeans are named after the city of Genoa in Italy, a place where cotton corduroy, called either jean or jeane, was manufactured. Statistically, every American owns, on average, seven pairs of blue jeans. For a birthday of blue jeans is considered May 20, 1873, a date when Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss and Co. obtained a patent for blue jeans. Almost immediately, coal miners in California adopted them as their “unofficial uniform”, as they stood up extremely well to the rigors of the mines Eversince it appeared in the 1800s,it has changed shape, meaning and symbolism many times over. They meant hard work, rebellion and wealth among other things. Find out many interesting facts about jeans Jeans were first colored with indigo because darker color better hides the dirt. In a time when the jeans were worn by factory workers, jeans for men had zippers on the front, but jeans for women had zippers on the side. Stretch denim is a type of denim that is used for skinny jeans. It

Hello Arsene, it's time to walk away

Hello Arsene, it's time to walk away "When you're losing a tug of war to a tiger, quickly release the rope, you can always get another rope, but not another arm"-Unknown  Since joining Arsenal in 1996, Arsenal fans have seen every side that there are to see of Arsene Wenger, the French gaffer joined from the unheralded Japanese league and wasn't expected to be a big deal to the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Terry Venables et al but he took the league by storm with instant impact. His first task was to establish total football, injecting a Dutch core and giving Arsenal an enviable identity. Arsenal weren't far off the top under George Graham but it's always Manchester United in the nineties era with Newcastle and Blackburn threatening, Liverpool sometimes come strong as well as the now forgotten Leeds United, somehow, Wenger took the double in only his second season. Having managed Henry at Juventus, Arsene Wenger added the Frenchman upfront, alongsid