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H.E. LATE PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter made jeans his White House trademark. Jimmy Carter's denim signaled the authtency of his hard-working ethos.

In the 1970s, jeans weren't considered presidential. President Gerald R. Ford, a square-jawed Republican, wore stocky suits, and while it's possible that President Lyndon B. Johnson or John F. Kennedy wore denim in the Oval Office, there is no record of them in Levi's as they held the United States highest office.

Then came President Jimmy Carter. '' Jeans are an authentic part of Carter's character,'' The New York Times wrote of Mr. Carter's clothes in 1976, just as he was about to be elected president, completing the unlikely journey from his roots as a Georgia peanut farmer.

Jeans never stopped being part of Mr. Carter's character. Up to the end of his life, work shirts and bluejeans were staples of Mr. Carter's uniform, especially as he spent some of his post-presidency building homes with Habitat for Humanity.

Mr. Carter, the 39th president of the United States who died on Dec 29, would prove to be an Oval Office trend-setter. Nearly all the presidents who followed him were captured wearing jeans while in office.

Ronald Reagan, who walloped Mr. Carter at the polls, sealing the peanut farmer's fate as one-term president, was a double-denim fashion plate. Later, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all wore denim in office [ although Mr. Obama was plagued by accusations that he looked like '' dad jeans '' ].

Mr. Carter could be credited with shepherding jeans to the political stage as a uniform - or, possibly, a costume - of all-American hardworking humility. There is a direct throughline from Mr. Carter's bluejeaned modesty to politicians like Marco Rubio and Pete Buttigieg stumping in jeans as a signal that they're different than those cloistered suits in Washington.

But unlike many of the politicians that followed, Mr. Carter was genuine in his down-home image. A child of the religious South, he was raised in a house without running water or electricity.

One of Mr. Carter's early chores was milking cows, an activity calling for something as durable as denim.

A farmer well before he became a politician, Mr. Carter availed himself of every opportunity to demystify the American presidency. He banned the tradition of playing '' Hail to the Chief '' as he walked into rooms, carried his own bags onto Air Force One and walked hand-in-hand with his wife through the streets during his inaugural parade.

In settings regal and rural alike, Mr. Carter's jeans bespoke hard work and grit. While in jeans, he played baseball, assessed his peanut farm and lugged watermelons - activities captured by the watchful eye of the press corps.

He mingled denim with diplomacy, wearing jeans to dialogue with President Anwar el-Sadar of Egypt on what would become the landmark Camp David peace accords.

To his constituents, jeans were an indigo emblem that Mr. Carter was above all, a son of Plains, Ga.

In the 70s, jeans companies like Levi's and Wrangler were producing their denim in the United States. It would be a couple of decades before most American clothing companies would offshore their production.

The Washington Post reported in 1977 that Mr. Carter's jeans were a size 33 inch waist and 31 inch length.

In an exit interview catalogued in Mr. Carter's presidential library, Jenna Flick, a correspondence clerk who served in his administration, reflected on his style :

'' He's so comfortable looking all the time.''

This Master Publishing is dedicated, with most respectful good wishes and prayers for Late President Jimmy Carter and with all the thanks to the author Jacob Gallagher.

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