Clothes of the Seventies, A-Smile Jeans
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Description: Way before Brooke Shields made it popular to show off your butt in jeans, A. Smile Jeans were THE JEANS that gave any butt a good shape. There slogan had a donkey at the end, it said, Put A, Smile On Your (ASS) These jeans were the original Stove Pipe jeans, about 12 inches wide all the way down. The other cool thing about them were the flap pockets that went straight down right at the belt line and only about 4 fingers wide and 3 inches deep. There was no sewn outline to the pocket, they were hanging on the inside of the pants with just a rectangular flap (with the bottom coming more to a point)sewn on to cover the opening. There hasn't been a better fitting jean made since.
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cool i love tose jeans too!
I WANT SMILE JEAN'S BACK!!!! OHHHHH
I loved the overalls. I seem to be the only one who remembers them! I had a purple pair
next to levis only jeans i have ever loved my dad hated those wide leg jeans. they were the greatest jeans ever. wish I could find a pair of vintage smiles
I went to University of Cincinnati with "Bucky" (SB)who started the A smiles jean co and later went on to start Bugle Boy jeans. A shout out to Stanley from one of the "rookies"
see the cherokee group
Original group is bringing them back out.
Bobby Univ. of Maryland, A friend's brother was friends with the co-founder so I regularly got A. Smile stuff back in the late 60s/early 70s. I still have an intact pair of the denim bell-bottoms in very good shape. Who knows, I might just part with them for the right price. :D
Cherokee is in the process of bringing this line
of clothing back to the market.
I loved the overalls too I think I had them in every color and have a school picture taken in one pair!!
I lived in Australia as a kid, and I used to have a white pair of smile jeans - BUT- they also zipped off into shorts!!!! Please is there anyone out there who would remember this. Thanks everyone.
i totally had purple and pink a smile overalls what were the ones that were 2 tone? purple front pink back? were those A. smile too? .......and I'm from Alaska, YES we had them there too ;)
my older sister had them in royal blue and purple i couldn't wait to get her hand me downs. she had a terrycloth shirt to match the blue ones :)
i remember having a pair of yellow ones and i got them all dirty when i fell down an embankment by the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, California in like 1980, I loved my Asmile Jeans.
I thought these jeans were being remade by Cherokee. Does anyone have any info on this? It is 2011 and I haven't seen them on the market yet.
I worked for A. Smile for a few years, both in NYC and in Atlanta when a dozen of us got transferred down there. I'd give anything to be able to take a stroll again through the warehouse to pick out the "baggies" (the famous wide leg, high waisted style) in any color and at the employee discounted price. Damn those jeans made your butt look great!
I thought A Smile Jeans had an ice cream cone on the butt pocket loved those jeans had them in a red as well comfy pants.
I knew Bobby,Bucky,Donny and Jack in their first house together(in the 20's downtown).Hanging with them while they put the ASmile together-the sketches-the swatches-ad writing.Everyone helped with ideas.It was the end of play-work begins
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I knew Stanley "Bucky" the Co founder from my college days! Two of my High School friends came down to Miami for spring break from the U of Cincinnati with him. 3 years later I was working for a large Textile firm in NYC and They didn't have the credit to buy fabrics from me. Things turned around for them and before yopu knew it They were on the cover of Menswear Magazine!
I have a pair that I am listing on eBay today. I have had them for a while but didn't know much about these jeans so I was googling and found this site.
I had A Smiles in the heavy cotton, not jeans. Maroon, green, blue, tan and black. I also ad 3 pair of the flap pocket jeans. These pants gave you a total Moose Knuckle and made your butt look so good, it could make a blind man cry. I had them about 3 inches too long to cover my platform shoes. When the shoes went out, I took the pants all to a seamstress to have them cuffed. When "Disco Fashion" died, it went FAST. Straight legs were coming in. Then we got hit with the disgusting Dockers look for 20 years. f I were 60 and A Smile re-released a line of ORIGINAL pants, I would buy them, wear them and be buried n them. I LOVED A Smile Pants....
Have been hanging on to two pairs with the tags still on them. Not sure what they're worth today. TKTOPDOGS@YAHOO.COM
I worked at their warehouse for a few years. Great people and a lot of fun to work. I learned how to make patterns and went to work in other jean places so I could make my jeans fit like the A Smile ones did.
worked for A.Smile in Atlanta until they moved to CA. what a wild ride it was!!! Would love to know where some of those friends are now and what they are doing.
@Caryn, are there patterns available anywhere?
I went to Woodstock with Bobby (co-founder) and friends in those days, when I was known as Linda Harris
Still have one pair. Best jeans ever, made you look like a rock star.
I was HOT in my A Smile's....pretty sure anyway! They made everyone look like they had a flat tummy.
I just came across a really cool A Smile Mirror display sign with donkey and all!
Hi Bobby n Bucky, Working for A Smile Jeans for almost 5 years was very memorable! Thank you Bobby n Bucky for all the great memories! Started in NYC, moved to Atlanta and everything is history. Hope you guys are still rockin n rollin! Put A Smile on your Ass! Wow!
just wanted to say hi
@John Sison and anyone else.... Does anyone still have a pair? I have two that I can't get into anymore... I've been searching the internet for even a picture of the flap pocket/stove pipe style that was big in suburbs of Pittsburgh! If anyone has a pair I'll buy them off of you! Ha! (36-38) ((now))
I purchased mine at the Harvard oop in Harvard Square. Bought in a few colors. They were the best jeans ever.
worked in Atlanta for A. Smile at the custom design shop early '70s, where rhinestone patterns were applied as piece work, manager there was Karen B. I was an Atlanta freak then and was too hip to keep that job. Made jeans for upscale like B. Altman, etc.
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