Jeans History

The word, 'Jeans' from the port of Genoa, Italy, and the people there were also known as Genes. The first jeans were made for the Genoese Navy because they required such trousers for their sailors that could be worn dry or wet, and whose legs would rolled up to wear while they swab the deck. The majority of source books suggest that word "Jeans" derives from the English translation of a French phrase 'serge de Nîmes'. Some people also quote that jeans was used as thick cotton cloth in the 16th century and were known as dungaree colored in indigo and was sold at the Mumbai (Bombay) port where sailors use to cut them to sizes and likes.

Jeans or Denim Jeans is basically trousers made from denim fabric which was considered a hard sturdy wearing fabric mainly wore by peoples who were engaged in heavy laboring jobs. The denim fabric is made from rugged cotton twill textile that is colored blue with indigo dye; jeans may also vary in a variety of fabrics these days like corduroy and others. Jeans were originally used a work clothes, later they became popular among young people in the 1950s. And today jeans are a very popular casual dress around the world and it is been considered as a leisure wear in America and many other countries, 7 out of 10 Americans like jeans as their first pick for casual dressing and on average an American owns 7 pair of jeans. Jeans nowadays also comes in many styles and colors and that is the reason it is still popular and will remain popular in the future.

Jeans are considered the Coca Cola of clothing, consumed almost every country around the world. The Jeans industry has grown to $14.6 billions. In 1980s the demand of Jeans increased on average 10% a year.

Some facts about Jeans:

   1.. A jean takes about 1 3/4 yards of denim, 213 yards of thread, five buttons and six rivets. 

  2.. There are 37 separate sewing operations involved in making a single pair of jeans. 

   3.. One bolt of denim weighs approximately a quarter of a ton. Cutters use an electric saw to cut through 120 layers of cloth at one time. About 60 pairs of jeans can be cut from one bolt of fabric. 

   4.. An average factory makes approx 2500 pieces of Jeans daily.

   5.. Denim is unique because it is woven with two yarn colors: the indigo yarn and the "filler" yarn, which is un-dyed.

   6.. Jeans were called "waist overalls" or just "overalls" until 1960 when Levi Strauss changed it to its popular name of "jeans."

   7.. Jeans is available in multiple styles such as skin tight jeans, low rise jeans, skinny jeans, low rider jeans, low jeans, low cut jeans, cut off jeans, wide leg jeans, stretch jeans, leather jeans, lowrise jeans and tall jeans.

   8.. The inventor of Jeans is Levis Strauss and there most popular was the Levi 501 Jeans. However now a day, the following brands are very popular:

true religion jeans, blue cult jeans, hudson jeans, marc jacobs jeans, seven jeans by seven for all mankind, seven jeans, seven for all mankind, evisu jeans, red monkey jeans, d & g jeans, levis jeans, wrangler jeans, ralph lauren jeans, abercrombie jeans, hollister jeans, apple bottom jeans