Summary Passage One
- The word is in a grip of a 'blue jeans' frenzy. Originally the work clothes of the manual labourers of the American Railway Company, these workaday clothes have run through such a host of adaptations that now they are donned by all levels of society for all manner of occasions. Suave business men flash in and out of offices sporting the expensive, permanently-pressed indigo shades; dainty models gracefully glide over fashion platforms in the brushed variety; able sportsmen relax in the purposeful air accorded them by the harsh, pocket less variety. Teenage lads gyrate in the clinging, tattered, and knee-frayed variety; teenage lasses pulsate to tune in their multi-pocket, body-tight variety. Ubiquitous toddlers scream happily and run around playgrounds in the ankle-fitting or bell-bottomed variety. Even babies are not left out of the blue fad; they lie in their cots gurgling happily in plastic-panty-lined nursery varieties.