Blue Jean

Gronk, in a flowing, burgundy coat, is taping a dramatically posed Valdez in red bolero jacket, blue-jean shorts and black velvet high heels to a creamy, orange wall and doing it as quickly as possible, as if their lives depended on the speed of the act. ❋ Max Benavidez (2011)

He crossed over to his boxes, reached into one of them, and pulled out a tiny acid-washed blue-jean backpack. ❋ Jessica Verday (2010)

Rumors are flying fast and furious over what Steve Jobs will pull out of his blue-jean pocket a week from Tuesday at his annual speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She stalks about the dining room in cut-off, blue-jean shorts and gauzy dashikis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Long blue-jean clad legs hanging off the craggy brick roof, Chris strummed absently at the strings of his dark brown acoustic guitar, tears staining its glossy surface, just below the tiny golden sword swinging from a chain around his neck. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Everything felt normal, just like blue-jean material and—he slid his hand down to touch the gap between the bottom of his pant leg and the top of his sock—like ordinary skin. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2009)

We met him standing next to a cash register in his blue-jean chef's smock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During World War II, one of the most memorable icons and metaphors was the image of Rosie the Riveter -- in her blue-jean overalls, shirt sleeves rolled up past her elbow, muscles bared to demonstrate how women were helping the war effort at home as much as their men were on the battle field. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I will defintely be picking up the FNL DVDs as my offering to the blue-jean gods (thank you Taylor Kitsch). ❋ Unknown (2007)

The blue-jean, regular-guy crowd simply needs to remember that there is no such thing as a regular blue-collar Joe running for president or vice-president. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You did not go to a Lutheran church in a T-shirt and blue-jean cutoffs with long hair and beads. ❋ Daniel Radosh (2008)