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Blue jeans babies

Australia, 1984
film

Traces the story of denim from its fifteenth century origins to the present day.

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Clothing: a pair of blue jeans

Canada, 1971
Similarity: 77%

Getting into jeans

Australia, 1983
Similarity: 72%

Clothing. - 3rd ed.

United States, 1980
Similarity: 70%

Buying blues

Australia, 1980
Similarity: 70%

Making cotton clothing

United States, 1946
Similarity: 69%

Not by jeans alone

United States, 1981
Similarity: 68%

Clothes around the world

United States, 1969
Similarity: 66%

Le bleu perdu

Canada, 1972
Similarity: 66%

The Great cover-up

United States, 1977
Similarity: 65%

Clothing

United States, 1937
Similarity: 65%

Fluorescers

United Kingdom, 1975
Similarity: 65%

Blue collar blues

Australia, 1972
Similarity: 65%

Once there were bluebirds

United States, 1971
Similarity: 64%

Cotton in today's world

United States, 1961
Similarity: 64%

My brown skin baby, they take 'im away

Australia
Similarity: 64%

Living tomorrow. No. 123

United Kingdom, 1975
Similarity: 64%

French children: a farm family in Brittany

United States, 1948
Similarity: 64%

Little blue

Australia, 2002
Similarity: 64%
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