Jeans are now a very popular form of
casual dress around the world, and have been so for decades. They come in many
styles and colors; however, “
blue jeans” are
particularly identified with American culture, especially the American Old West
The word “
jeans” comes from the
French phrase bleu de Gênes, literally the
blue of Genoa.
Jeans fabric, or denim, originated independently in two places:
Jeans are pants made from denim. Some of the earliest
American blue
jeans were made by
Jacob Davis,
Calvin Rogers, and bin 1873. Starting in the 1950s,
jeans, originally
designed for the U.S. Army and working people, became popular among teenagers.
Historic
brands include Levi’s, Lee, and Wrangler.
Jeans come in various fits, including skinny, tapered, straight, boot cut, Mommy-cut, maternity, and flare.he French town of Nîmes, from which ‘denim’ (de Nîmes) gets its name. From Dongari Killa in India, from which the
word ‘
dungarees’ came. See Etymology of “
dungaree”
