Jeans - true story
2010-10-23 @ 16:24:15
Levi Strauss was the man who invented jeans. Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829, but went to the USA as a young man. At first he lived in New York, but in 1853 he moved to San Francisco, where he worked with his brother. They worked in a shop selling clothes to men who were loking for gold in the California Gold Rush. The men were working very hard in difficult conditions and they needed very strong trousers.
Strauss was the first man to begin producing special, strong troursers. He made these trousers from a fabric called 'denim' - this fabric probably came from a town called Nimes in France. Later, Strauss added special metal buttons to the trousers to make them even better and they immediately became very popular.
Today, there are many different styles of jeans: straight, baggy, flared, low-waisted - almost any style you can imagine.
Milions of people wear jeans to go to work in offices, as well as to go out. Jeans are as popular today as they ever were, but there is one thing no one is really sure about - why are they called 'jeans'...?
Strauss was the first man to begin producing special, strong troursers. He made these trousers from a fabric called 'denim' - this fabric probably came from a town called Nimes in France. Later, Strauss added special metal buttons to the trousers to make them even better and they immediately became very popular.
Today, there are many different styles of jeans: straight, baggy, flared, low-waisted - almost any style you can imagine.
Milions of people wear jeans to go to work in offices, as well as to go out. Jeans are as popular today as they ever were, but there is one thing no one is really sure about - why are they called 'jeans'...?