10 amazing facts about your jeans and denim
10/6/2020
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Denim is one of the most frequently used types of cotton fabrics. People of different ages wear denim clothes all year round. How much do you really know about them?
Everyone has a pair of jeans. They are comfortable and go almost with any other clothing. However, not all of us know that denim and jeans have a long and interesting history.
Before reading the article try to answer these tricky questions about jeans:
- What year was the patent for copper rivets for denim jeans issued?
- The patch on which brand of jeans features two horses pulling a pair of jeans apart?
#1 First denim comes from Nîmes, France. However, the first pair of jeans is believed to originate from Genoa, Italy.
#2 This type of pants became popular in 1873. It happened after Jacob W. Davis, a tailor from Nevada, created rivet-reinforced pair of jeans for workers. All previous pants didn't last long so this model was in high demand.
#3 Levi Strauss founded a company that sold fine dry goods including clothes. Together with Jacob W. Davis, who was one of his customers, they patented the new style of pants - riveted blue jeans. Soon the company started mass production of blue jeans.
#4 It's interesting to learn that Levi Strauss never wore jeans as he was a wealthy man and this item of clothing was meant for workers.
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#5 Indigo is a colorant used to make denim blue. It is one of the oldest dyes used specially for clothes. It was derived from certain plants and now it is produced synthetically.
#6 Blue jeans are forbidden to be worn in North Korea.
#7 The small pocket on jeans was meant for pocket watches.
#8 In the 1950s the jeans were not allowed to be worn at schools as they were considered the symbol of rebellion.
#9 The most expensive pair of jeans costs $250,000. The jeans are decorated with gold and diamonds.
#10 On average, 6 billion pairs of jeans are made every year.
What other facts about jeans do you know? Do you like denim clothes? Share in comments!
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25 Comments
Carol A. Whittaker Hall
I am 82 years old and still wear blue jeans. I love them, I have been wearing them for years.
Audie Hicks
I’m with Neil Diamond, “Forever in Blue Jeans.”
Cheri Skelding
Forever in blue jeans will be sung at my funeral !!!!
gerald hardig
I have to disagree with item #8. I am a product of the 50's and Levis were the fad and just about every guy around wore Levis to school and everywhere else. There were different styles of wearing them, especially the way the bottom of the legs were worn, rolled, tucked under, tucked under and rolled or straight. Me, I preferred tucked under with one roll.
Betty Wiendels
Rhonda Hamilton McPhail, It can also be used for lens cleaning wipes or a small cleaning cloth for glasses.
Lynda Wild
Love jeans. Been wearing them for 52 years
David Heinz
gerald hardig, Sounds like stories my grandfather told us about when he was a sandblaster. Where he worked he would climb up on the dock and while two other guys held his stiff overhauls he would jump into them. After his shift was over, two guys would lift him out of the pants. Would have enjoyed seeing that.
David Heinz
Wondering if Levi Strauss knew John M.Studebaker. Studebaker searched for gold for a while but found that he could make more money building wheelbarrows for the miners. Later on he moved back to South Bend Indiana and bought out one of his older brothers shares in the Studebaker wagon company and the rest is history.
David Heinz
Carol A. Whittaker Hall, 80 years old and been wearing them since I was a tyke.
David Heinz
Joke! DNA! It’s in your jeans 👖
Rhonda Hamilton McPhail
That small pocket was always used for a lighter back in the 60’s and 70’s.
Heather Low
Heather Low 16 yrs
Heather Low
I worked for Levis in Scotland for q5 yrs before it closed down . A great company to work for .
Shoshana Katz
I understood that Levi Strauss was in the California gold fields with a load of canvas and the miners were in need of pants that would hold all their tools. Thus the need for the rivets. And he wasn't rich when he started out.
Julie Allen
When I first wore Levis there were no womens jeans. I wore 30"W 31"L. Lived in jeans all my life, straight leg, then flares, then bootleg even though I lived in the tropics for a large part of that. Due to a medical condition had to stop wearing them 18 months ago.
Tina Marie Haddad Rhodes
Tom Kelly, never caught that. Cool.
Elsy O. Stromberg
Never heard of jeans being forbidden in schools in the 50's. We wore them all the time and I don't think anybody thought they were a symbol of rebellion. they were comfortable, practical and cool! I've worn them ever since when I didn't need to dress more formally.