Just occasionally in fashion something completely new comes along which rather than being a short lived fad remains with us for a lifetime or more.
The mini skirt arrived on the scene quite suddenly in the nineteen sixties and still to this day is as popular as ever. Sometimes it is an innovative bit of practical design work like the inspirational one just one hundred and fifty years ago almost to the day, when the first major denim jeans designer in the United States thought to toughen the stitching with metal studs.
These studs were sewn into the possible weak points like the edges of any pockets and around the fly exactly as they still are today on this manufacturer and many others jeans.