Who invented jeans wiki

Jeans are pants made from denim or dungaree cloths which are both cotton cloths but denim is woven and then colored while dungaree is woven from colored yarn. Jeans as name for trousers come from city of Genoa in Italy, a place where cotton corduroy, called either jean or jeane, was manufactured. Republic of Genoa exported the jeans throughout Europe. Weavers from the French city of Nimes tried to copy jean but could not.

In Levi Strauss came from Germany to New York where his brother held dry goods store as a family business. That is also why it was used by Levi Strauss and Jacob W. Davis for material for jeans pants. Indigo dye is a color used for coloring the denim. It is an organic dye with a distinctive blue color. It was manufactured and used in India, from where it got its name, since the ancient times. Indigo in India was made from plant Indigofera tinctoria.

It was used on cotton because it was the easiest method of coloring. Indigo was a rare luxury in Europe in the Middle Ages because of high duties imposed by Persian, Levantine, and Greek middlemen. With discovering of a sea route to India that problem was solved and indigo plants are moving to colonies. Organic Indigo is used until the discovery of the synthetic indigo in the late 19th century. The copper rivets used to reinforce the pockets were appreciated by miners and other labourers, who complained about frequent pocket rips.

Strauss and Davis initially made jeans in two types of fabric, brown duck and blue denim, but the creation of the denim style in helped the latter fabric take off. Hollywood helped romanticize the blue jean in the s and s by putting the trousers on handsome cowboy types played by the likes of John Wayne and Gary Cooper.

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