After jeans' breakthrough as a trend and as an item of workwear, they have become a symbol of Western culture. To the world, jeans were “like a magnificent flag that says 'USA' to the world at large” (Sullivan 215). Although jeans have always been an “American” product, they soon began to attract people around the world. Anthropologist Danny Miller, author of the book Blue Jeans, explains that "in every country he visited - from the Philippines to Turkey, India and Brazil - he stopped and counted the first 100 people who passed by, and in each found that nearly half the population wore jeans every day” (Hegarty). The appeal of jeans to people around the world was due to their cultural significance and durability