Show EXTENSION BOMB Mary E. Home Agent Indian Department JEANS Because blue jeans probably are the most popular item of for boys and girls in the U. S. the Ohio Experiment Station chose them as a garment about which query mothers in a recent survey of the qualities buyers want in children's clothes and their satisfaction with what is on the Mothers of nine and year-old boys and mothers of girls of the same age were asked what they looked for when buying jeans for their children and any problems they had in buying or using Though jeans are considered a standardized they still offer enough differences in price and other qualities for mothers to have a choice in the Ohio researchers point Jeans are on the market in standard or western They come in several colors besides the deep-tone blue or blue which are Sometimes jeans are decorated with seams stitched in- thread of contrasting Some have reinforcements f different such as patches over the knee Pockets Fabrics range from lightweight to heavy-weight What features influenced the mothers when they bought Mothers of boys showed about a 2 to 1 preference for western cut jeans while three-fourths of the mothers of girls chose the standard The survey indicated that style and fit were their chief considerations in Mothers of boys frequently mentioned also durability and Mothers of the girls were more interested in comfort than More than half the mothers said they had difficulty getting a good Those buying by age-size may have trouble because the same age-size may vary in measurement of inseam and The boys' mothers frequently said that jeans came too large at the This may have been the result of the style chosen because the popular western style is made slim in hips and jeans that fit the boys' hips may be too large at the When asked about wears and the the two problems mentioned most often by these mothers were fading or bleeding of color in washing and Most mothers regarded these as and adapted to them by washing the jeans separately from the rest of the family laundry so that the color wouldn't stain other and buying a size large enough to allow Though the mothers generally agreed that jeans were items that boys wore out and girls more than two-thirds of the boys' mothers reported that jeans lasted 8 months or and many said as long as 12 In summing the Ohio researchers report that style and fit seem to be what most mothers look for in buying children's Details of construction such as pocket kind of finish of the top of garment had little if any influence on these As for their seeming lack of concern about shrinkage and bleeding this indicates that the who are the real tight-fitting |