My first pair of jeans was in 1954 I was 14 years old....if I remember right, there were no girls jeans in this country.my friend and I went to see a Doris Day film and she had on turned up jeans and a check shirt....we decided that was the look for us. We bought boys jeans and boys shirts. We thought we looked fantastic. I then had the idea that I wanted to look really American, I bought some gold coloured round paper clips. The ones that were pushed through the paper and the clips folded back. I sat on my bed and spent an entire evening pushing these clips through the side of my jeans all the way down the sides of the legs. They looked great, gold shiny studs....then I put them on and endured for weeks, the scratches from the studs all down the side of my legs, some even bled... just to look like Doris day. fashion can be so painful