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Goals and history

Lee National Denim Day is the world's largest single-day fundraiser for breast cancer. One day each year during the National Breast Cancer Month of October, Lee Jeans encourages millions of people nationwide to wear their favorite jeans to work and make a $5.00 donation to support the fight against breast cancer.

The fundraiser has been raising millions of dollars since 1995. Originally, 100% of the proceeds were donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Now Lee National Denim Day has announced that it will partner with the Women’s Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. Lee National Denim Day will support groundbreaking early detection and treatment research for breast cancer with application to all women’s cancers, as well as local community breast cancer programs nationwide. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is a foundation created to support breast cancer research. ...

The first ten years of Denim Day have been focused on education and awareness. The second decade of Denim Day will focus on funding specific research projects working to find a cure for breast cancer.

The Komen Foundation received more than $61 million in the first decade. In 2005, people at nearly 30,000 companies and organizations wore denim on Lee National Denim Day in exchange for a $5.00 donation to fight breast cancer.

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Celebrity spokespersons

• 2005 - Actors James Denton and Ricardo Antonio Chavira, stars of the hit TV show Desperate Housewives, joined forces to help raise $8.5 million to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Lee National Denim Day®. The mothers of both actors lost their lives to breast cancer. [1]

• 2004 - Actor Charlie Sheen, star of the hit TV show Two and a Half Men, was the 2004 spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day. A close friend of his lost her life to breast cancer, and Charlie wanted to help find a cure for the disease. [2]

• 2003 - Actress Christina Applegate, who is particularly well-known for playing Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married... with Children, was the 2003 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day. Christina's mother, Nancy Priddy, is a breast cancer survivor. [3]

• 2002 - Actress Melina Kanakaredes, star of the CBS TV show CSI:NY as Detective Stella Bonasera, was the 2002 spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day. A friend of hers was diagnosed with breast cancer. [4]

• 2001 - Actress Lucy Liu, co-star in the film Charlie's Angels and on TV's Ally McBeal, was the 2001 spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day. Liu was once diagnosed with a non-cancerous breast lump. [5]

• 2000 - Actor Rob Lowe, perhaps best known for playing Sam Seaborn in the TV show The West Wing, was the first male spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day. His grandmother and great-grandmother both suffered from breast cancer. [6]

• 1999 - Actress Patricia Arquette, star as the psychic Allison DuBois on NBC's TV show Medium, was the 1999 spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day. Patricia's mother died from breast cancer in 1997. [7]

• 1998 - Actress Yasmine Bleeth, most famous for her acting role as Caroline Holden on the worldwide-syndicated TV show Baywatch, was the 1998 spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day. Yasmine's mother died from inflammatory breast cancer when Yasmine was only 20 years old. [8]

• 1996 - Professional Basketball star Rebecca Lobo, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, was the 1996 spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day. In 1996, Rebecca and her mother, RuthAnn Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team [9], which dealt with RuthAnn's battle with breast cancer. [10]

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Trivia

The manufacturer of Lee Jeans, VF Corporation, is also a leader in the manufacture of intimate apparel such as Vanity Fair®, Vassarette®, Bestform®, and Lily of France®.

See also

• Lee Jeans

Lee is a famous brand of denim jeans founded in 1889, headquartered in Merriam, Kansas, and owned by the VF Corporation. ...

External links

• Lee National Denim Day
• Lee Jeans