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ABOUT FAMOUS INVENTIONS
People all over the world wear them. You wear them. They’re the best-known item of clothing in the universe. They’re comfortable, they’re stylish, they’re …
jeans!

The story of jeans started at the time of the American Gold Rush. In 1849 thousands of people went to California to dig for gold and hopefully make their fortune.
Among them was a young man called Levi Strauss who migrated to the USA from Germany at the age of 18. He didn’t find any gold but he made a lot of money.
Levi Strauss and his birthplace (now museum) in Buttenheim (Germany)

Levi Strauss realised that the gold miners needed very strong clothes which were comfortable to wear and easy to wash.
He bought some thick cotton denim from a mill in New Hampshire, USA.

He decided to make trousers from this strong material. Levi Strauss jeans found in a goldmine.

The name denim came from serge de Nimes, after the town of Nimes in the south of France.
Levi Strauss’s trousers were later called jeans, possibly because sailors from Genoa in Italy wore them.
The popularity of jeans increased and they were sold right across the USA. In 1873, stitching, shaped like the wings of the Rocky Mountain Eagle, was added.

In the 1950s, jeans became extremely popular all over the country. Other brand names such as Lee Coopers and Wranglers also became famous.


Film stars wore them in movies. They were associated with rock and roll and pop music.
Marlon Brando screen idol in jeans in the 1950s.
In the 1950s, the fashion for jeans arrived in Europe. People began to wear jeans in their free time.

In the 1970s, people started decorating their jeans, cut off the legs to make Bermuda shorts, then short shorts, skirts, bags and so on.
Jeans were a great hit with the hippie revolution. Jeans were the only uniform to wear to a 1970’s pop concert.
The most famous jeans produced by Levi are Levi 501 needed to be shrunk to fit. Shown in a TV advertisement in Britain in the 1980s, they made the sales increase by 800 per cent.
New designer jeans with names like Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Armani and others also appeared at that time.
Since that time people have seen different types of jeans: ripped, frayed, torn, stonewashed, with lycra and various decorations such as embroidery, silver and gold spraying, Swarovski crystal beading, fur, feather, etc.

Jeans are an American invention, they began as an iconic symbol of the American West and now they are worn all over the world.
They will never die!

Надіслано вчителем Міжнародного ліцею Гранд Афанасьєва Л.А.