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Did you Know the Earliest Know Jeans Came From Bombay?
The earliest known pre-cursor for jeans is the Indian export of a thick cotton cloth, in the 16th century, known as dungaree. Dyed in indigo, it was sold near the Dongarii Fort near Bombay. Sailors cut it to suit them.
Jeans fabric was first created in Chieri, a town near Turin (Italy), already in 1400s. It was sold through the harbor of Genoa that was the capital of an independent republic, and a naval power. The first were made for the Genoese Navy because it required all-purpose pants for its sailors that could be worn wet or dry, and whose legs could easily be rolled up to wear while swabbing the deck. These jeans would be laundered by dragging them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the seawater would bleach them white. According to many people the jeans name comes from blue de Genes, i.e. blue of Genoa.
Riveted jeans
In the 1850s Levi Strauss, a German dry goods merchant living in San Francisco, was selling blue jeans under the “Levi’s” name to the mining communities of California. One of Strauss’s customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co wholesale house. After one of Davis’s customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn pants, he had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly. Davis did not have the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Strauss suggesting that they both go into business together. After Strauss accepted Davis’s offer, on May 20, 1873, the two men received patent #139,121, a patent for an “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings,” from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Copper rivets for reinforcing pockets are a characteristic feature of blue jeans.
Copper rivets for reinforcing pockets are a characteristic feature of blue jeans.
Initially, blue jeans were simply sturdy trousers worn by workers, especially in the factories during World War II. During this period, men’s jeans had the zipper down the front, whereas women’s jeans had the zipper down the right side. By the 1960s, both men’s and women’s jeans had the zipper down the front. In the United States during the 1950s, wearing of blue jeans by teenagers and young adults became symbolic of mild protest against conformity. Some older adults as disruptive considered this; for example, some movie theaters and restaurants refused to admit patrons who wore blue jeans. During the 1960s the wearing of blue jeans became more acceptable and by the 1970s had become a general fashion in the United States, at least for informal wear. Notably, in the mid-1950s the denim and textiles industry was revolutionized by the introduction of the stonewashing technique by GWG (Great Western Garment). Entrepreneur, importer and noted eccentric, Donald Freeland of Edmonton, Alberta, pioneered the method that helped to bring denim to a larger and more versatile market. Denim suddenly became an attractive product for all age groups and Freeland became one of the most important innovators in the history of denim and denim products. It should be noted, also, that Freeland contributed to a variety of other denim textile developments throughout his career with Great Western Garments (GWG)[2] Acceptance of jeans continued through the 1980s and 1990s to the point where jeans are now a wardrobe staple, with the average North American owning seven pairs.
Being imported American products, especially in the case of the Soviet Union that restricted hard currency imports, jeans were somewhat expensive. In Spain they are known as vaqueros or “cowboys” and in Chinese, jeans are known as niuzaiku (literally, “cowboy pants” (trousers), indicating their association with the American West, cowboy culture, and outdoors work.
Jeans can be worn very loose in a manner that completely conceals the shape of the wearer’s lower body, or they can be snugly fitting and accentuate the body. Historic photographs indicate that in the decades before they became a staple of fashion, jeans generally fit quite loosely, much like a pair of bib overalls without the bib. Indeed, until 1960, Levi Strauss denominated its flagship product “waist overalls” rather than “jeans”.
Blue jean insulation
Recycled blue jean is becoming a popular insulation material in the construction of houses. Due to its low relative synthetic chemical composition and because it is made of recycled materials, it is gaining prominence in green building circles. Like conventional insulation, it moderates temperature and reduces sound transfer between floors or rooms.
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