“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity — all I hope for in my clothes.”
-Yves Saint-Laurent
Who doesn’t love denim? Whether its a jean pants, jacket ,shorts,top, purse, shoes ….Personally I loved wearing denim “jeans ” for as long as I can remember. It would instantly make me feel so “cool” and gave me some kind of “power”. Everything about denim is awesome versatile, tough, durable, easy to wear, seasonal, the list goes on and on the possibilities are endless. Listen up cause, Denim is here to stay in your wardrobe.
A little bit of history : History of Jeans and Denim. Jeans are actually pants made from denim or as they say dungaree material cloth. Invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. Evidently the gold-rush days needed for tough miner’s clothes created this high demand for a new material . Among too many rocks, crawling for hours, clothing scrapping along shafts, they’re was a realisation Strauss’s “overalls” where convenient and protective of the body. All he needed was a type of cloth that lasted. All he has to do is switch to this famous denim material.They were cheap and they felt good.Denim definitely lasts as we all know. Todays Jeans are named after the city of Genoa in Italy, a place where cotton corduroy, called either jean or jeane, was manufactured and based out of.
Jeans threw wear and tear, everyday use, get personality, new rips, new character. Memories become attached to your denim pair. Although Nowadays Denim seems to evolve with fashion. From blinged out denim jackets to distressed jean pants, shorts to acid washed or even extra bleached light color, what ever the style may be denim will jump right into it. All the high end fashion designers are all in as well. It is truly an undying legendary piece of material.
VINTAGE JEANS; what everyone looks for. You can even say its a piece of history. Every pair has its own art. from vintage levis to flea market finds. As well as re-done, patched up and re-fitted.
JAPANESE JEANS; The best quality of jeans in the world. Although jeans are American originated Japan has mastered the color and quality as well as fit.
So the next time your shopping and thinking twice about that denim jacket or jean pants, just buy it! Buy the jeans!!!! It will literally never go out of style, ever! Its literally a symbol for the everyday fashion trending style, but yet so simple.
ShadesofNatalee ♥
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