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I'm obsessed with these jeans, they are fabulous! I never knew I wanted red and black marbled jeans until just now. Now I want bottle green and black marbled jeans! I have this pattern, but am working up the courage to get started. Monday, 22 June Marble Gingers.

I don't know about you but I looooove wearing jeans. A good pair of jeans is a must have for most people. However finding that perfect pair in the RTW world is tricky. Especially when you are on a budget and your body is not exactly on the same wave length with the standardized clothing manufacturing world. Which often is the case for me. I have been thinking about one day making my own jeans that fit me well and are reasonably priced and obviously have good quality for as long as I have been really serious about sewing.

And what a pair are they. My first go at making real jeans and a wearable muslin for the Ginger Jeans pattern by Heather. When the pattern came out I thought "Yes, this is what I need in my life" and bought it right away. If you already have the pattern, you can't say the reason why you haven't made your jeans is "I'm too busy to make my own pattern" But it still took me a while to assemble the pattern and dive into the sewing process. But I got there. And instead of feeling the water with my toes first, I dove in head first and hoped for the best.

What you are seeing here is proof of my insanity. I took some white denim that I had been hoarding in my fabric stash and dyed it. Yes, you heard me right. Dated reference for the win!

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I cut out view B in size 10 for the waist and size 12 for the hips. Then I followed the instructions provided by the pattern and hauled my ass into the jeans once they were ready for the waistband. That was when I realized I needed to make a few fitting adjustments.

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I had to take in 1 cm from the waist and hips and 0,5cm around the calves. Then I chopped off 4cm from the hem and lowered the waistband by 0,5cm in the front, 1,5cm on the sides and 4cm on the back. I also had to tweak the shape of the crotch curve. I didn't get the perfect result for the crotch yet, but I'm hoping to get there with my next pair. Overall I am very pleased with the end result. I've received quite few compliments on my jeans and people have been really surprised that I actually made these.

Yay for sewing ego boost! When henna is used on hair it dyes the hair to different shades of red. This would give the U. Several accounts by Greek writers mention redheaded people. A fragment by the poet Xenophanes describes the Thracians as blue-eyed and red-haired. In Asia, red hair has been found among the ancient Tocharians , who occupied the Tarim Basin in what is now the northwesternmost province of China.

Caucasian Tarim mummies have been found with red hair dating to the 2nd millennium BC. Reddish-brown auburn hair is also found amongst some Polynesians , and is especially common in some tribes and family groups. In Polynesian culture reddish hair has traditionally been seen as a sign of descent from high-ranking ancestors and a mark of rulership.

The pigment pheomelanin gives red hair its distinctive color. Red hair has far more of the pigment pheomelanin than it has of the dark pigment eumelanin. The genetics of red hair, discovered in , appear to be associated with the melanocortin-1 receptor MC1R , which is found on chromosome Red hair is associated with fair skin color because low concentrations of eumelanin throughout the body of those with red hair caused by a MC1R mutation can cause both.

The lower melanin concentration in skin confers the advantage that a sufficient concentration of important Vitamin D can be produced under low light conditions. However, when UV-radiation is strong as in regions close to the equator the lower concentration of melanin leads to several medical disadvantages, such as a higher risk of skin cancer. The MC1R recessive variant gene that gives people red hair generally results in skin that is unable to tan.

Because of the natural tanning reaction to the sun's ultraviolet light and high amounts of pheomelanin in the skin, freckles are a common but not all-inclusive feature of red-haired people. Eighty percent of redheads have an MC1R gene variant. Red hair can originate from several changes on the MC1R-gene.

If one of these changes is present on both chromosomes then the respective individual is likely to have red hair. This type of inheritance is described as an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Even if both parents do not have red hair themselves, both can be carriers for the gene and have a redheaded child. Genetic studies of dizygotic fraternal twins indicate that the MC1R gene is not solely responsible for the red hair phenotype; unidentified modifier genes exist, making variance in the MC1R gene necessary, but not always sufficient, for red hair production.

Red hair is the rarest natural hair color in humans. The non-tanning skin associated with red hair may have been advantageous in far-northern climates where sunlight is scarce. Studies by Bodmer and Cavalli-Sforza hypothesized that lighter skin pigmentation prevents rickets in colder climates by encouraging higher levels of vitamin D production and also allows the individual to retain heat better than someone with darker skin.

In Africa, for example, red hair is selected against because high levels of sun harm untanned skin. However, in Northern Europe this does not happen, so redheads can become more common through genetic drift. Estimates on the original occurrence of the currently active gene for red hair vary from 20, to , years ago. A DNA study has concluded that some Neanderthals also had red hair, although the mutation responsible for this differs from that which causes red hair in modern humans.

A report in The Courier-Mail , which cited the National Geographic magazine and unnamed "geneticists", said that red hair is likely to die out in the near future. The National Geographic article in fact states "while redheads may decline, the potential for red isn't going away". Red hair is caused by a relatively rare recessive allele variant of a gene , the expression of which can skip generations. It is not likely to disappear at any time in the foreseeable future.

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Melanin in the skin aids UV tolerance through suntanning , but fair-skinned persons lack the levels of melanin needed to prevent UV-induced DNA-damage. Studies have shown that red hair alleles in MC1R increase freckling and decrease tanning ability. Red hair and its relationship to UV sensitivity are of interest to many melanoma researchers. Sunshine can both be good and bad for a person's health and the different alleles on MC1R represent these adaptations. It also has been shown that individuals with pale skin are highly susceptible to a variety of skin cancers such as melanoma , basal cell carcinoma , and squamous cell carcinoma.

Two studies have demonstrated that people with red hair have different sensitivity to pain compared to people with other hair colors. One study found that people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain associated with naturally occurring low vitamin K levels , [50] while another study concluded that redheads are less sensitive to pain from multiple modalities, including noxious stimuli such as electrically induced pain.

Researchers have found that people with red hair require greater amounts of anesthetic. A study showed women with red hair had a greater analgesic response to that particular pain medication than men. The unexpected relationship of hair color to pain tolerance appears to exist because redheads have a mutation in a hormone receptor that can apparently respond to at least two types of hormones: Both derive from the same precursor molecule, POMC , and are structurally similar.

Melanocyte-stimulating hormone normally stimulates melanocytes to make black eumelanin , but if the melanocytes have a mutated receptor, they will make reddish pheomelanin instead. There is little or no evidence to support the belief that people with red hair have a higher chance than people with other hair colors to hemorrhage or suffer other bleeding complications.

Most red hair is caused by the MC1R gene and is non-pathological.

However, in rare cases red hair can be associated with disease or genetic disorder:. A common belief about redheads is that they have fiery tempers and sharp tongues. In Anne of Green Gables , a character says of Anne Shirley , the redheaded heroine, that "her temper matches her hair", while in The Catcher in the Rye , Holden Caulfield remarks that "People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie [his dead brother] never did, and he had very red hair. During the early stages of modern medicine, red hair was thought to be a sign of a sanguine temperament.

Another belief is that redheads are highly sexed; for example, Jonathan Swift satirizes redhead stereotypes in part four of Gulliver's Travels , "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms ," when he writes that: Queen Elizabeth I of England was a redhead, and during the Elizabethan era in England, red hair was fashionable for women. Sometimes, red hair darkens as people get older, becoming a more brownish color or losing some of its vividness. This leads some to associate red hair with youthfulness, a quality that is generally considered desirable.

In several countries such as India , Iran , Bangladesh and Pakistan , henna and saffron are used on hair to give it a bright red appearance. Many painters have exhibited a fascination with red hair. The hair color " Titian " takes its name from the artist Titian , who often painted women with red hair. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes story " The Red-Headed League " involves a man who is asked to become a member of a mysterious group of red-headed people.

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Red hair was thought to be a mark of a beastly sexual desire and moral degeneration. A savage red-haired man is portrayed in the fable by Grimm brothers Der Eisenhans as the spirit of the forest of iron. Theophilus Presbyter describes how the blood of a red-haired young man is necessary to create gold from copper , in a mixture with the ashes of a basilisk. Montague Summers, in his translation of the Malleus Maleficarum , [71] notes that red hair and green eyes were thought to be the sign of a witch , a werewolf or a vampire during the Middle Ages;.

Those whose hair is red, of a certain peculiar shade, are unmistakably vampires. It is significant that in ancient Egypt, as Manetho tells us, human sacrifices were offered at the grave of Osiris, and the victims were red-haired men who were burned, their ashes being scattered far and wide by winnowing-fans. It is held by some authorities that this was done to fertilize the fields and produce a bounteous harvest, red-hair symbolizing the golden wealth of the corn.

But these men were called Typhonians, and were representatives not of Osiris but of his evil rival Typhon, whose hair was red. During the Spanish Inquisition , people of red hair were identified as Jewish and isolated for persecution. The Ancient historian Josephus would mistranslate the Hebrew Torah to describe the more positive figure of King David as 'golden haired', in contrast to the negative figure of Esau , even though the original Hebrew Torah implies that both King David and Esau had 'fiery red hair'.

In his book I Say No , Wilkie Collins wrote "The prejudice against habitual silence, among the lower order of the people, is almost as inveterate as the prejudice against red hair.

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As a boy he had bright red hair, and it is amusingly recorded that one day in the streets of Norwich a number of boys followed him, pointing to his red locks and saying, "Look at that boy; he's got a bonfire on the top of his head," and that John Gurney was so disgusted that he went to a barber's, had his head shaved, and went home in a wig. He grew up, however, a remarkably attractive-looking young man. In British English , the word "ginger" is sometimes used to describe red-headed people at times in an insulting manner , [75] with terms such as "gingerphobia" [76] and "gingerism" [77] used by the British media.

In Britain, redheads are also sometimes referred to disparagingly as "carrot tops" and "carrot heads". The comedian " Carrot Top " uses this stage name.

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Nonetheless, individuals and families in Britain are targeted for harassment and violence because of their hair colour. In , a year-old was stabbed in the back for "being ginger". The three men were subsequently jailed for a combined total of ten years and one month for the attack. This prejudice has been satirised on a number of TV shows. The British comedian Catherine Tate herself a redhead appeared as a red-haired character in a running sketch of her series The Catherine Tate Show.

The sketch saw fictional character Sandra Kemp , who was forced to seek solace in a refuge for ginger people because she had been ostracised from society. Hucknall, who says that he has repeatedly faced prejudice or been described as ugly on account of his hair colour, argues that Gingerism should be described as a form of racism. The pejorative use of the word "ginger" and related discrimination was used to illustrate a point about racism and prejudice in the " Ginger Kids ", " Le Petit Tourette ", " It's a Jersey Thing " and " Fatbeard " episodes of South Park.

Film and television programmes often portray school bullies as having red hair. In Australian slang , redheads are often nicknamed "Blue" or "Bluey". In November social networking website Facebook received criticism after a 'Kick a Ginger' group, which aimed to establish a "National Kick a Ginger Day" on 20 November, acquired almost 5, members.

A year-old boy from Vancouver who ran the Facebook group was subjected to an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for possible hate crimes. In December British supermarket chain Tesco withdrew a Christmas card which had the image of a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus , and the words: Even ginger ones " after customers complained the card was offensive. In October , Harriet Harman , the former Equality Minister in the British government under Labour, faced accusations of prejudice after she described the red-haired Treasury secretary Danny Alexander as a "ginger rodent".

In September , Cryos International , one of the world's largest sperm banks , announced that it would no longer accept donations from red-haired men due to low demand from women seeking artificial insemination. The term ang mo Chinese: Thus it is viewed as racist and derogatory by some people. It appears, for instance, in Singaporean newspapers such as The Straits Times , [] and in television programmes and films. It primarily referred to Dutch traders who were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan during Sakoku , its year period of isolation.

There has been an annual Redhead Day festival in the Netherlands that attracts red-haired participants from around the world. The festival is paid for by the local government in Breda, a city in the south east of the Netherlands. The international event began in , when Dutch painter Bart Rouwenhorst decided he wanted to paint 15 redheads. Today, the festival includes music, fashion shows, art exhibitions and a picnic []. The Irish Redhead Convention, held in late August in County Cork since , claims to be a global celebration and attracts people from several continents.

The celebrations include crowning the ginger King and Queen, competitions for the best red eyebrows and most freckles per square inch, orchestral concerts and carrot throwing competitions. A smaller red-hair day festival is held since by the UK's anti bullying alliance in London, with the aim of instilling pride in having red-hair.

Since , a red-hair event is held in Israel, at Kibbutz Gezer Carrot , held for the local Israeli red hair community, [] including both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi red-heads. The first and only festival for red heads in the United States was launched in A festival to celebrate the red-haired people is held annually in Izhevsk Russia , the capital of Udmurtia, since The Norse god Thor is usually described as having red hair. Early artistic representations of Mary Magdalene usually depict her as having long flowing red hair, although a description of her hair color was never mentioned in the Bible, and it is possible the color is an effect caused by pigment degradation in the ancient paint.

Judas Iscariot is also represented with red hair in Spanish culture [] [] and in the works of William Shakespeare , [] reinforcing the negative stereotype. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the film, see Red Hair film. For other uses, see Redhead disambiguation.

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