Concept in Definition ABC

Denim is a type of strong fabric that is made primarily of cotton. This fabric is well known throughout the world because popular jeans are made with it, as well as other clothing accessories.

Elaboration process

Industry machinery textile turn this cotton into threads. These threads are subsequently dyed blue with a dye known as indigo. In the next phase they are glued to make them more resistant.

In the loom the bluish threads are crossed with other white ones and for this reason This combination is called denim. Various treatments are applied to the mixed threads: machines that clean the fabric, app of currents air to make the fabric flexible, stretching process, etc.

All these steps make the cotton definitively transform into a new fabric, denim.

Origin of the term and a brief historical brushstroke of the jeans brand Levi Strauss

The word denim comes from French and refers to a fabric that already in the Middle Ages it was used to make resistant fabrics. This fabric came from one of the most important French cities in the textile sector, the city of Nimes. In this way, the term denim means precisely that it comes from Nimes.

In the nineteenth century in California many of its inhabitants were engaged in the mining sector, especially in the search for gold. The gold rush attracted thousands of people from all over the world. In this context, a young man named Levi Strauss, a businessman of Jewish fabrics of German origin.

Levi Strauss had a great idea: add copper rivets to the denim fabric and incorporate a fly and pockets in the front and turn it into pants

In a short time this resistant garment became very popular among miners and cowboys and was renamed jeans or jeans.

A few years later the new trouser model was added a red leather patch on the back with the number 501 representing the batch number of manufacturing.

Consequently, jean is the garment and denim is the fabric used in the manufacture of said garment. Levi Strauss brand jeans are a real icon of fashion. His international popularity began with the gender western from the 1940s with actors such as John Wayne, Robert Mitchum or Randolph Scott. Around 1965 the hippies incorporated jeans as a fundamental piece in their clothing.

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