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Recently, a rumour began on the fashion-political circuit (a Venn diagram with more overlap than you might imagine). North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had banned the wearing of skinny jeans.
The rumour, published by the likes of the BBC and
The South China Morning Post, was debunked by Seoul-based
New York Times writer Choe Sang-Hun, who found that although Jong-un frequently disavows the influence of capitalist-style clothing, jeans, skinny or not, were still allowed above the 38th parallel.
It is startling to imagine that one kind of fabric can have such a rich and impactful history.
That the rumour spread with such ease says much about its plausibility, which says as much, in turn, about North Korea’s strictures as it does about denim itself. Because denim has been controversial since its inception.
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