Jeans - this ... description, history of the origin, type and model

Today, jeans - it MUST keV in any wardrobe, while originally blue trousers denim work clothes were Dockers, stevedores and cowboys. It may be wise to learn a little more about the things that are practically at all?

The history of jeans

It is believed that the comfortable dark-blue trousers were the first to wear the American longshoremen. In fact, thick cotton pants came shortly before Columbus discovered America. "Denim" fabric made in the small French town of Nimes, called it Nîmes yarn. Hence, by the way, and there was the word "denim" and jeans - a French "invention".

especially denim loved sailors, who were quite picky and do not chase fashion. Fabric liked them for lightness and strength. First Nîmes yarn sheltered loads, it is patched sails out of it is sewed spacious comfortable pants. Sailors, by the way, came up with flared jeans. They needed slacks, to be able to roll them when dropped out turn to wash the deck.

That's sailors brought jeans in America in the Age of Discovery. However, firmly taken root practical pants in the New World until the early nineteenth century. The Cowboys then just needed a durable pants for riding.

Many are completely sure that the jeans Levi Strauss invented - the founder of the eponymous company, things that are known and popular in the world today, but in reality it did Jacob Davis, a tailor who offer services to the miners. The latter, incidentally, was a native of the Russian Empire. However, money to patent it did not have, so he asked them to Levi Strauss. Since decades jeans were only a robe for sailors, miners, workers and cowboys. Dark blue pants were cheap, served for a long time, but "decent" people treated him as they are today are the one who decides to wear sweatpants to the theater.

Durable pants made of denim and clothing would still be working if not fashion. In America, many wealthy people from the industrial northern regions sent their children to summer camp in the south. The boys became "cowboys in miniature" and, of course, wore jeans. Kids, of course, very pleased that the trousers were not torn and hardly soiled. It was born and fashion - first among the children, and later - in adults.

Jeans "rocked" the whole world, when Bastien youth in the United States during the sexual revolution, decided to choose jeans to demonstrate to all our solidarity and unity. Then, in the dark-blue pants and began to walk quite wealthy people - bankers, university professors and even office workers. What is interesting, then around the world at the same time growing anti-American sentiment and sales of jeans.

Jeans USSR

In the Soviet Union about the jeans first came to know only in 1957, when a simple dark-blue trousers, appeared at the VI World Festival of Youth and Students. The first of them have learned the residents of the two capitals - Moscow and Leningrad - in fact there began to appear foreign students and tourists. Also, western things often appear first in the major international ports - Odessa, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok. It is in these cities later began to open the first "Birches" - shops where you could buy foreign goods. Learning about the jeans, they started to mention in his works E. Yevtushenko, Aksenov and other cultural figures of the time. The case when a political leader Nikita Khrushchev states at a meeting with the intelligentsia rebuked Voznesensky for the fact that he was in jeans.

The most famous jeans

What is jeans today? The first, of course, remember the famous levaysy. The first store opened this enterprising young man in 1853 when he was a little more than twenty years. Strauss strong sewed trousers of any fabric that was durable in its properties, and delivers them to the gold miners camp. In the United States, covered by the gold rush, it was a brilliant decision.

Modern type of jeans - it is convenient and practical trousers with pockets and rivets, levaysy began to produce in 20-ies. Then Strauss had already died, and the company passed to his nephews.

In the 90 years of the twentieth century the company has lost more than half of the market share of the former, but not for the reason that there are many competitors around. "Levays" lost their position because continued to produce the classic straight jeans, while the worldwide fashion for narrow.

Today, owners of one of the most well-known companies that sew jeans, are the heirs of Strauss. The company has not sold, except that the people engaged in the management side. In 2008, the company's net profit amounted to almost $ 230 million.

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Basic model

Each manufacturer introduces its own labeling and classification, but there are commonly occurring types of jeans:

1. Slim - narrowed, completely tight jeans.
2. The classic straight trousers cut standard.
3. The free cut or the so-called "boyfriends".
4. Skinny - tight-fitting pants along the entire length.
5. Riding breeches - pants that tight fitting lower leg, but expand on the hips.
6. dzhegginsy - something average between leggings and jeans.

The main types and names of women's jeans listed above, but there are other common types of these practical trousers.

denim types

Modern jeans are made from denim rarely, because today it is the most expensive fabric. Often pants made from gin, stretch, ecru, chambray or broken twill. These fabrics are cheaper, stain them, as a rule, only one of the yarn systems - longitudinal.

Fashion Jeans 2017

In 2017 Jeans - a mast keV. In this fashion season became classic models with high waist model oversayz baggy and loose boyfriend. Jeans can be worn with both classical shirts (preferably combined with a classic dark blue trousers) and a bright T-shirts. Classical models look good on almost any shape, high waist profitable hides unnecessary on hips and straight leg (or narrowing, which looks better on slender tall girl) visually lengthens the leg.

Interesting Facts

At one time jeans were branded clothing representatives of youth movements hippies - is known to many. But there are other interesting facts about the practical dark blue pants:

1. The company "Levays" bought at auction in 2001 jeans, which were produced at approximately 1880 miners' village.
2. black marketeers and V. Ya Rokotoff Faibishenko in 1961 shot for trade jeans - it was one of the charges.
3. In Peru, fabric age was discovered more than six thousand years old, dyed with natural indigo dye, which is used for the production of jeans in our time.

The history of the emergence and jeans as interesting as the current trends associated with this garment.