Jeans For Men Definition
Source(Google.com.pk)The story of jeans begins in the city of Genoa, in Italy, famous for its cotton corduroy, called either jean or jeane; the jeans fabric from Genoa (at that time) was in fact very similar to corduroy. During the Republic of Genoa, the jeans were exported by sailors of Genoa throughout Europe. In the French city of Nimes, weavers tried to reproduce the fabric exactly, but without success. However, with experimentation, and through trial and error, they developed another twill fabric that became known as denim, literally "de Nimes". Only at the end of the eighteenth century did jeans arrive in the United States.
Riveted jeansA young man named Levi Strauss immigrated in 1851 from Germany to New York to be with his older brother, who ran a dry goods store. In 1853 he moved to San Francisco to establish his own dry goods business.
Denim is a rugged cotton twill textile, in which the weft
passes under two (twi- "double") or more warp fibers. This produces
the familiar diagonal ribbing identifiable on the reverse of the fabric, which
distinguishes denim from cotton duck. Denim has been in American usage since
the late eighteenth century. The word comes from the name of a sturdy fabric
called serge, originally made in, France, by the Andre family. Originally
called serge de , the name was soon shortened to denim. Denim was traditionally
colored blue with indigo dye to make blue "jeans," though
"jean" then denoted a different, lighter cotton textile; the
contemporary use of jean comes from the French word for Genoa, Italy (GĂȘnes),
where the first denim trousers were made.
A similarly woven traditional American cotton textile is the
diagonal warp-striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroad en's
overalls, in which blue or black contrasting with undyed white threads form the
woven pattern. Hickory cloth was characterized as being as rugged as hickory
wood—not to mention the fact that it was deemed to be worn mainly by "hicks"—although
neither may be the origin of that term [from a nickname for
"Richard"]. Records of a group of New Yorkers headed for the
California gold fields in 1849 show that they took along four "hickory
shirts" apiece. Hickory cloth would later furnish the material for some
"fatigue" pantaloons and shirts in the American Civil War.
The word dungarees, to identify heavy cotton pants such as overalls
can be traced to a thick cotton country-made cloth, Dongari Kapar, which was
sold in the quarter contiguous to the Dongari Killa, the fort of what was then
known as The word entered English with
just this meaning in 1696 (OED). Dongri Fort was rebuilt in 1769 as Fort
George, Bombay, where the first cotton mill was established in 1854. Dyed in
indigo, the traditional cloth was used by Portuguese sailors and cut wide so
that the legs could be swiftly rolled up when necessary. Thus, dungarees have a
separate history.
Dry or raw denim, as opposed to washed denim, is a denim fabric
that is not washed after being dyed during its production. Over time, denim
will generally fade, which is often considered desirable.
Most denim is washed after being crafted into an article of
clothing in order to make it softer and to eliminate any shrinkage which could
cause an item to not fit after the owner washes it. In addition to being
washed, non-dry denim is sometimes artificially "distressed" to
achieve a worn-in look.
Much of the appeal of dry denim lies in the fact that with
time the fabric will fade in a manner similar to factory distressed denim. With
dry denim, however, such fading is affected by the body of the person who wears
the jeans and the activities of their daily life. This creates what many
enthusiasts feel to be a more natural, unique look than pre-distressed denim.
To facilitate the natural distressing process, some wearers
of dry denim will often abstain from washing their jeans for more than six
months, though it is not a necessity for fading.
Selvage denim (also called selvedge denim) is a type of
denim which forms a clean natural edge that does not unravel. It is commonly
presented in the unwashed or raw state. Typically, the selvage edges will be
located along the outseam of the pants, making it visible when cuffs are worn.
Although selvage denim is not completely synonymous with unwashed denim, the
presence of selvage typically implies that the denim used is a higher quality.
The word "selvage" comes from the phrase
"self-edge", the natural edge of a roll of fabric. In this case, denim
made on old-style shuttle looms. These looms weave fabric with one continuous
cross thread (the weft) that is passed back and forth all the way down the
length of the bolt. As the weft loops back into the edge of the denim it
creates this “self-edge” or Selvage. Selvage is desirable because the edge
can’t fray like lower grade denims that have separate wefts which leave an open
edge that must be stitched. Shuttle looming is a more time-consuming weaving
process that produces denim of a tighter weave resulting in a heavier weight
fabric that lasts.
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