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Elvis and jeans - how often did he wear them??

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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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Hello to you
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
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and in the NBC 68 Special



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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..



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There are loads of great pictures of Elvis wearing brown - trousers, suits, shirts etc. I'm not at all convinced he did dislike brown, but agree that he didn't like blue jeans, although theres a picture of him wearing a denim suit with Jackie Wilson in 1974.



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KevinK wrote:Did he really dislike the colour brown?
Wasn't it just dull browns and greens that he disliked? Supposedly these reminded him of the clothes he had to wear in the Army.


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Elvis grew up in Blue Jeans..it was the wear of the labouring people.
When he got rich he never wore Jeans again in his private life...


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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.



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Elvis did like the Cleveland Browns, Jim Brown, Tony Brown and Earl Brown. And, in April, 1977, he performed at the Brown County Arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was probably crazy about UPS, as well.



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Hello KEVINK
Yes, i know what you mean, the brown suit from 1969 :wink: like the black one, that looks great
I meant that he didnt like some types of brown ( all those army brown & green...)
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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.


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He did show off in jeans in Roustabout and Tickle Me also!


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Hey BAJO
you right . i forgot about : ROUSTABOUT & TICKLE ME :wink:
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