Elvis and jeans - how often did he wear them??
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Elvis and jeans - how often did he wear them??
When I opened one of my newspapers this morning there was a one column article about some new jeans and a picture of Elvis (a black and white shot from the Jailhouse Rock song in the same movie) where it stated that he often wore jeans while singing and gallivanting (for a lack of a better word - where I live the Beatles seem to have a love-affair with the media here); but I know that he despised wearing jeans - but didn't he wear them sometimes in his movies?? How often, and in what movies?
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Elvis didnt like to wear Jeans, he hated it, they reminded his poor times back at the '40 when he was a little child, also he hated the colour: brown
The only times he wore them was:
Movies: LOVING YOU 1957 ( also jeans jacket)
KING CREOLE 1958
FOLLOW THAT DREAM 1961
KID GALAHAD 1961
KISSIN COUSINS 1963 ( white jeans also a white jeans jacket)
STAY AWAY JOE 1967
Those are the ones i remember
take care
LIOR
Elvis didnt like to wear Jeans, he hated it, they reminded his poor times back at the '40 when he was a little child, also he hated the colour: brown
The only times he wore them was:
Movies: LOVING YOU 1957 ( also jeans jacket)
KING CREOLE 1958
FOLLOW THAT DREAM 1961
KID GALAHAD 1961
KISSIN COUSINS 1963 ( white jeans also a white jeans jacket)
STAY AWAY JOE 1967
Those are the ones i remember
take care
LIOR
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Did he really dislike the colour brown?
I have pictures of him wearing a very cool 2 piece high collared suit in '69. The pics are of him walking down a corridor with the Memphis Mafia around him. Maybe it's just the pictures though. The suit looks very like the black one he wore on stage at the time..
I have pictures of him wearing a very cool 2 piece high collared suit in '69. The pics are of him walking down a corridor with the Memphis Mafia around him. Maybe it's just the pictures though. The suit looks very like the black one he wore on stage at the time..
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On the 1956 TV show "Hy Gardner Calling", he is asked how he felt about wearing a tuxedo on the Steve Allen Show and something to do with his cadilaac tastes, and he replied, "I usually wore blue jeans".
His tone changed during this response and I wonder why he even said it, since it does seem strange. Unless he was trying to appear humble to the television audience. Because at the time no one really knew much about him personally, he could spin it anyway he wanted to.
His tone changed during this response and I wonder why he even said it, since it does seem strange. Unless he was trying to appear humble to the television audience. Because at the time no one really knew much about him personally, he could spin it anyway he wanted to.
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I'm sure I read in one of my books that Elvis and the guys wore jeans a lot when he had the Circle G ranch. That would actually make sense as he is known to have thrown himself very enthusiastically into that project. It would have been odd to work a ranch in a suit.
Beyond that, as others have said he hated jeans as they reminded him of his years of poverty.
Beyond that, as others have said he hated jeans as they reminded him of his years of poverty.
50,000,000 Elvis fans cant be wrong.
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