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Feb 26, 2019 · History Behind the Color of Jeans | Trusted Since 1922. RD.COM Beauty & Fashion Clothing. This Is the Real Reason Blue Is the Most Common Denim Color. By Marissa Laliberte. Updated: Nov....
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The science behind blue jeans' classic color
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It might just be the world's most popular piece of clothing. Skinny leg, wide leg, boot cut, relaxed fit, cowboys, hipsters, models, and punks. We love our jeans. Specifically, blue jeans.
What you may not know is the number of hoops your pants have to jump through for the fabric to turn that classic blue. Roll it.
First, a quick history lesson. Stay with me.
In 1853, a dude named Levi Strauss moves out to gold rush- crazy California to sell dry goods. He did not sell wet goods. Understand? Dry.
Strauss sold clothes, boots, et cetera. And in 1872, he teamed up with a tailor to add rivets to his workwear to add durability. They were made of a mix of brown cotton duck, which is essentially canvas and demin. A year later the true blue jean was born, riveted and made from all denim. The original brand was the Levi Strauss Double X.
The logo featuring two horses trying to pull the genes apart debuted in 1886 and is still stamped on the waistband today. Go ahead and look at it. Enough history.
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- May 20, 1873: The Birth of Jeans. Back in the day—the mid-1800s to be exact—dungarees a.k.a. "waist overalls" were all the rage. And not because they were stylish, but rather, practical.
- 1920s to 1930s: Wild, Wild, Western. Jeans as workwear continued throughout the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the American West among miners, cowboys, and laborers.
- 1950s: Cool Blue. Jeans became a symbol of "cool" in the 1950s. Pop culture bad boys like James Dean and Marlon Brando popularized cuffed, boxy styles of denim as they shook up the squares in their films.
- 1960s: Flower Power. Peace, love, and bellbottoms became the counterculture anthem of the 1960s. The youthful, free-love movement embraced the casual blue jean (bellbottoms and low-rise hip-huggers, especially), which represented freedom from more structured clothing while also serving as a form of creative self-expression.
Jun 20, 2022 · But the history of blue jeans has been edited to better suit its biggest producers, Levi’s and Wrangler, a documentary by PBS, reveals. While dry good supplier Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis are credited with mainstreaming denim pants with reinforced stress points and pockets, there are people both before and after them that deserve ...
Jul 4, 2019 · We consider May 20, 1873 the “birthday” of blue jeans, because although denim pants had been around as workwear for many years, it was the act of placing rivets in these traditional pants for the first time that created what we now call jeans.
Dec 20, 2021 · It wasn’t until the first half of the 20th century that blue jeans brands–among them Lee, founded by a hardware store owner in Kansas; Blue Bell, the North Carolina overall company that would...
Blue jeans, now called “denim”, were originally made from this fabric and manufactured in the French town of Nîmes ( bleu de Nîmes ). There is still debate over whether the word “denim” is an anglicized version of the French textile or whether the French name was given to an already existing English product to give it prestige.
