Did you know your jeans are an actual piece of history?

• Jeans are named after the city of Genoa in Italy, a place where cotton corduroy, called either jean or jeane, was manufactured.
• Statistically, every American owns, on average, seven pairs of blue jeans.
• For a birthday of blue jeans is considered May 20, 1873, a date when Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss and Co. obtained a patent for blue jeans.
• Almost immediately, coal miners in California adopted them as their “unofficial uniform”, as they stood up extremely well to the rigors of the mines
• Eversince it appeared in the 1800s,it has changed shape, meaning and symbolism many times over. They meant hard work, rebellion and wealth among other things. Find out many interesting facts about jeans

• Jeans were first colored with indigo because darker color better hides the dirt.
• In a time when the jeans were worn by factory workers, jeans for men had zippers on the front, but jeans for women had zippers on the side.
• Stretch denim is a type of denim that is used for skinny jeans. It is not made from the pure cotton, but it has an elastic component such as elastane.
• Blue jeans became popular for the first time outside of the United States, thanks to American Soldiers in World War II wore jeans when they were off-duty.
• By the ’30s, cowboys in the U.S. had also adopted this seemingly indestructible pant.
• Jeans have made their way into our everyday lifestyle and have lost its association as a “working class” garment. Today, millions of people still wear their jeans to work—not only to the mines, but also into the boardrooms of the upper class.



Levi Strauss and the miners in denim jea.
 being worn in the 1890s.




Blue jeans were banned at certain places like schools, theaters, and restaurants in the ‘50s because they were seen as a form of rebellion against conformism.

And today, Jean is being rocked by all age groups

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