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Of hippies, ducks and capitalist pigs- Jefferson Airplane’s acid-drenched Levi’s commercials

Of hippies, ducks and capitalist pigs: Jefferson Airplane’s acid-drenched Levi’s commercials

It’s whimsical, strange, and almost certainly unreleased.

Martin Schneider
Aug 5, 2025

Debbie Harry in 1980 TV ads for Gloria Vanderbilt jeans

Until the mid-70s, the only kinds of blue jeans anyone really wore were Levis, Lee or Wrangler. Then came designer jeans like Calvin Klein and…

Richard Metzger
Jan 26, 2017

Gary Numan’s 1978 blue jeans commercial featuring vampire robot punks

In 1978 Gary Numan, then still with Tubeway Army, did the vocals for a commercial for the English jeans manufacturer Lee Cooper. The commercial featured…

Martin Schneider
Sep 20, 2016

Dangerous Finds: Skinny jeans cause nerve damage; Heroin smuggled in puppies; new Bowie 12 disc box

Skinny Jeans Cause Nerve and Muscle Damage: Pants caused one patient’s legs to stop working: (Popular Science) The Wachowskis’ Sense8 Is the Philip K. Dick…

Tara McGinley
Jun 23, 2015

Douchebag denim company sells $298 jacket and $348 jeans with fake heavy metal patches on them

Apparently “Heavy metal Chic” is the hot new look, whether you like the music or not! First, retailer H & M created an affordable line…

Amber Frost
Apr 23, 2015

Fashion mastication: ‘Pre-chewed’ blue jeans nibbled by lions, tigers and bears

If you can distress denim with acid, I guess using wild animals to do it isn’t too strange…. Admirers of the Kamine Zoo in Hitachi,…

Martin Schneider
Jul 11, 2014

Out of the closet: ‘Gay jeans’ reveal your true colors

Everyone knows that one of the best things about jeans is that they conform to your body over time. The more you wear them, the…

Martin Schneider
Apr 23, 2014

‘Mom Jeans,’ for the discerning, monied fashion plate

As best I can tell from my rudimentary knowledge of sartorial paleontology, the trajectory of the Mom Jean goes like this: In the late 1970s…

Amber Frost
Dec 31, 2012

Glenn Beck is selling his own line of very nationalistic blue jeans

These are the jeans. The Glenn Beck Jeans. Glenn Beck has launched his own brand of jeans, 1791 Denim. They only went on the market…

Amber Frost
Oct 18, 2012

‘Jeans that turn a dude into a stud’: Nick Nolte’s modeling career, 1972

According to my husband, it’s pretty well-known that Nick Nolte used to be a male model in 1960s and early 1970s. I have to admit,…

Tara McGinley
Oct 10, 2012

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