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If you try searching a playlist of Elvis Presley, it’s a guarantee that you will find “Blue Suede Shoes” up there on the list of his all-time greatest hits with no doubts. “Blue Suede Shoes” was recorded in 1956 and was used as an open song of the album “The King”, from the king of Rock ‘n Roll himself. Additionally, “Blue Suede Shoes” has influenced a fashion industry of the whole America at the time as “Blue Suede Shoes” has been classified as an elegantly stylish shoes that has been widely worn when going out at night for people in the Southern part of America. However, “Blue Suede Shoes” was composed and sung by Carl Perkins in 1955 and was released publicly in 1956 and swiftly became a top hit on the chart, with various sources of influences to the lyric of the song, like, Johnny Cash, the one who told a story of a black army named CV. White whom he met while serving in a military in Germany, at that time White calls his army shoes “Blue Suede Shoes” and he wouldn’t let anyone dirty up his shoes ever and, moreover, Cash suggested Perkins to compose a song about shoes as well. In another version of this song, it tells a story about a dance where Perkins noticed that there were one couple who was dancing close to the stage and then he heard the man shouted to his lady partner “Don’t step on my suede shoes” but it was too late, when she looked down, the “Blue Suede Shoes” of that boy were already been stepped on. Perkins felts it was hilarious that the boy cared more about his shoes than his beautiful lady he was dancing with right in front of him and that, lady and gentlemen, was a beginning of this song. And in the peak of his life and career, Perkins got into a car accident on the way to film a TV show, tragically, he passed away in that accident, Elvis Presley, at that time, knew Perkins well, so he took that song and re-sang in a different version and it went widely famous. In addition, “Blue Suede Shoes” were remade in numerous versions and this song was listed as top 500 most influenced songs of Rock ‘n Roll of all time.
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When mentioning about Suede leather, perhaps, many don't know that this word has its origin from the French word "gants de Suede" which means gloves from Sweden. This phrase was used to describe imported gloves from Sweden which had an incredibly soft, velvety texture. From this origin, any type of leathers which have a napped finish characteristic have been called "Suede" regardless of what kind of animal the hide is from, like Sheep skin suede, pig skin suede or reknown cow hide Suede all of these mentioned shares the same characteristic, a soft, fine, flexible and lightest weight of all type of leather.
In the 20th century, Suede leather has been put on the lime light once again. From its refined, delicate , luxurious look, Suede leathers are worn to show social status of the wearers. Numerous fashion designers from Paquin, Givenchy as well as Hermes started using Suede leathers in their fashion show widely. It's undeniable that Suede leather receive attention from the mass in a fashion industry because of the influence from the song of Elvis Presley, the king of Rock n' Roll, "Blue Suede Shoes" which was listed as the opening track in Elvis Presley's album. You may wonder what is history behind this song, am I right? I'll tell you in the next post. Later! |
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March 2022
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