O jeans e a cultura juvenil: contribuições possíveis sobre o crescimento da indústria de confecção no Brasil

Abstract

This thesis investigates the development of the textile and clothing industry from the production of jeans in the 1960s and 1980s in Brazil. The analysis can be a basis to how the growth of youth culture in the 1960´s — and the general use of jeans, that became the youth uniform clothing, making it´s way to all the next generations — contributed to professionalization and development to the brazilian clothing industry. Beyond the modernization of brazilian textile industry, as it demanded better machines and qualified employees, the growth of jeans use to an all ocasions clothing, found in the fashion marketing a modernized support for making this garment into a youth behavior statement. This image of the valorization of national production, which was previously destined almost exclusively to the popular classes and from a modeling that emphasizes sensuality, becomes an accepted product in all classes. It will evolve in the 1970s and 1980s to a model not only Connected to young audiences. With the expansion of the use of jeans for other age groups. But focused on body and sensuality, and precisely associated with the image of eroticism, which will become characteristic of the production of typically Brazilian jeans.