Interesting facts about jeans (provided by STARZ DENIM)

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Today I want to share with you interesting facts about jeans. Our friends STARZ DENIM told us it. Wish you a pleasant read!

Jeans one of the most famous garment, which is probably the most common and comfortable outfits too. Men or women, boy or girl everyone has at least one garment in their wardrobe and that is jeans. It is mainly because of its easy maintenance and comfort. The style and structure of jeans have changed according to time but it is not out of fashion. They have a wonderful appearance but the story behind the materials used is very interesting. Every part of it has some story behind it that is very prevailing.

Fact #1 from Starz Denim. How keyword “jeans” was invented?      

According to a widespread historical saga, a French in the 19th century invented jeans in a small town called Nimes. The fabric is made from jeans which are called in the French language as “Serge” and thus their name “Serge de Nimes” and so it came to be called in short as “denims”. This was about denims, but what about “jeans”? Soon Denims become extremely popular in Europe And it was mostly used by Genoa’s sailors. Whenever these guys went to France they used to buy jeans in bulks. These paints were so famous among sellers that they began to give them as a tribute and started keeping nicknames.

Fact #2 from Starz Denim. Why the blue color?   

The world’s first jeans were created in blue color. People like labours or any kind of jobs which were like labourers used to wear them whose clothes used to quickly be dirty. Keeping this in mind, the world’s first jeans have a deep blue color because to was to overcome the dirt accumulated and also help to lower the visibility of these defects. Another main reason was the export of the “neil” means indigo from India to Europe. Earlier in Europe, when indigo was not exported, in Europe there was a particular leaf which was used to color jeans. These leaves would give a light blue color to the jeans. In comparison, indigo was far cheaper and would give better color. After indigo reached Europe the way of coloring jeans completely changed.

Fact #3. Why do you see YKK everywhere? 

The same company offers almost every world branded jeans zip. If you’ve ever had noticed, you will know that the jeans you purchased or the jeans which you wore, almost each have “YKK” zip. These English ‘characters ‘ are printed on the back of the zip. It is “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha” which is a Japanese company and it means “Yoshida Company Limited”. In 1934, it was known as Tadao Yoshida and today also this company makes zippers for most of the branded jeans companies.

Fact #4. Why do jeans have a small pocket?

This part of the jeans we have seen but we have never thought about it. Even if some people have noticed it they didn’t even give it a thought. Is it to keep coins or tickets? We all may have a different user of it. You’d be surprised to learn that there are no such reasons behind this little pocket.   Once it was posted in a blog about the reasons that the pocket is made to keep pocket watches in it. These are the oldest jeans pocket, which was in the year 1879. According to this blog, the world’s first blue jeans were having just 4 in the pockets, one back, two pockets in front and a small watch Pocket. These Pocket keeps the last parts to tight so that the Pocket is the right place. 

Fact #5. Reverse metal buttons. 

If you think these buttons are only show off then you are wrong. There is a story behind this. In old days, labours were using these jeans. Their work was too much physical involvement. Pockets were torn because of rough uses. One American tailor thought how he could fix this issue. People were poor. They could not repair again and again by spending money. This tailor started putting these button (called as rivets) in reverse order. This button mainly put in a corner of the pocket. So that buttons keep pockets join tightly. Rivets prevent stitches from breaking. 

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