blue jeans

And you thought jeans were American!

And you thought jeans were American!

One year I decided to visit a small museum in the Ardèche area of France which documents much of the history of the Huguenot community there. One display featured a mannequin family of Huguenots, all dressed, to my surprise, in blue denim. It was a bizarre juxtaposition of what looked like 80's stone-washed denim set in the 17th and 18th centuries.