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Does a cloth made from recycled denim jeans embody the spirit of rebellion, transgression and sexual liberation or simply how we feel when we pull on a pair of great fitting blue jeans?

The jean cloths are another example of queer cloth as it references the role jeans have played and continue play in the coded language of clothing for gay men, particularly Levi's 501 button fly jeans which make the crotch more prominent drawing the gay male gaze and conjures gay archetypes like the leather and denim clad biker and the boot wearing cowboy.