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Jeans, by the way, are, you know, it's always famous, you know, that communist Russia, the thing that was most valuable was an imported pair of jeans. And I have to admit, I don't own a pair of jeans, by the way.
And I have to admit, I don't really get it as an item of clothing. I mean, it's not particularly comfortable. It fades. Okay? It's not particularly easy to maintain. There's a dilemma about whether you iron it or not. Okay? Right?
I mean, in a way, the fact that denim became this absolutely dominant fabric is, you know, no one would have been. I mean, I actually know, I know this because where I grew up, not far from Ponty Pool, there were a lot of people who had often retired from ICI at the ICI nylon factory in Pontypool. And there was an R&D function there. And one of the things these people bemoaned is they said, "We went and we developed tons and tons of remarkable fabrics, fabrics that stayed clean, fabrics that kept you cool." Uh, you know, they said, "Scientifically, we were, you know, at the cutting edge of effectively using artificial fibers to produce really, really remarkable." I mean, they could produce, I know they produced, um, things that felt like silk because one of the people told me that they could produce artificial silk. They said, "And then everybody went and wore jeans."