When (blue)-jeans becamed popular in U.S.A?
 

When (blue)-jeans becamed popular in U.S.A?
In the days befor the '50's I've seen that only some farmers weared them. In up to mid '50's teen movies, some teens din't weared them, but I don't know if those movies do reflect the reality.

Go here:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smith...eans-89612175/
It was originally a heavy duty pants for miners in the late 1800's.
They caught on because Americans want things that will last.

Of course, the Smithsonian has something on it. That series of museums are a true gem, and a nice part of the Mall. A “must see” if you ever get to Washington D.C.

In the 1950s and 60s, there were a lot of rebellious teenagers. What better way to rebel than by wearing clothes that were not the norm? In this case, a working man's clothes. T-shirts had a similar introduction to the public norm. They used to be undershirts, and kids started wearing them. Also navy sailors. Eventually they just became normal.

I believe blue jeans were popular as you mention in the mining days of the 1800s. They also became popular in the late 1940s on ranches and rodeo type settings, which is in the late 1940s when Wrangler jeans were founded.

I think by the 1970s blue jeans were probably commonly worn outside of those settings.

I wonder if A-shirts (sometimes called "wifebeaters") predated T-shirt style undershirts. My grandfather was a sailor and I remember he always wore white T-shirts under his button up shirts.

My father never did, but I seem to have adopted it as a teenager.

Lol... A-Shirt nicknamed "wife beater".
I do use a T-Shirt under my button shirts, speceally during cold seasons to protect my chest from cold; trough I'm a male, I'm not cold resistent. And my chest area is very sensitive to cold.

I started school in 1950 in Ft. Worth TX. 95% of boys in all grades wore Levis 501s
(the button front), at least in our school. One reason is that a local small department store mostly carried those .. in absolutely all sizes, kiddies to "rodeo clown" size.
When I graduated in 1962 it was the same. Lots and lots of the real cowboys did too.
(Note: at the time I lived 1.5 miles downwind from the largest stockyards in the world ..
but 1.25 miles downwind from the city dump, which was worse.)

The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)...
 

From IMDb:

After the first season aired, an executive for sponsor Levi Strauss was quoted as saying that "Donna Douglas had done more for the sale of blue jeans in one year than cowboys have done in a hundred."

The old man griped about not being allowed to wear jeans in highscool, then the year after he graduated, '68, his high school finally allowed their students to wear them.

He was a farm boy so he wore jeans when not at school. While jeans sure arent considered formal wear, it's hard for me to imagine an era where you were forbidden to wear them at nice restaurants or high school.