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Why do we love our blue jeans so much? It's not so hard to understand. Jeans are comfortable, they last a long time, they're not terribly expensive, and they are fashionable. You can wear them for casual get togethers or dress up affairs, for lounging around watching TV, or for working at the office or in the garden. You can even wear them for your next guest appearance on the Jay Leno show. As the expression goes, you can live in your jeans.

Who Originally Created Jeans?

There is no one "inventor" of jeans. Believe it or not, they evolved over a long period of more than 400 years. They started out as versatile and rugged pants worn by sailors and turned into the everyday uniform now worn by millions of people around the world.

Jeans are made of denim which is a durable woven cotton fabric that appeals to most people. There are many reasons: denim has long-lasting durability, it is comfortable, it comes in varying hues, it is versatile and it is not terribly expensive. Denim jeans can be worn for hard physical labor, out to dinner, or any type of activity in between.

The name "dungaree" comes from Dongarii Fort, an area on the outskirts of the Indian city of Bombay, where the material was produced and sold. It was usually dyed with blue indigo dye creating the distinctive blue colour that exists to this day. This distinctive dungaree cloth was first used by sailors on Portuguese sailing ships. They wore it in their travels around the world and introduced it to Europe.

Not too many years later the fabric was being manufactured in Europe, more or less as the thick cotton material we know well today as "denim". In France in the 1600s denim was woven near the city known as Nimes where the cloth was called serge. It became known as "serge de Nimes" which was eventually shortened to "de Nimes" and anglicized to "denim".

The term "jeans" came about because denim trousers were manufactured in the Italian port of Genoa, which is pronounced "Genes" in French. The durable pants were first used by sailors in the Genoese navy. Like teenagers of today, these sailors practically lived in their clothes, which made the denim fabric ideal. The sailors could wear the denim either wet or dry, and it is easy to roll the legs up for swabbing the deck. They could also wash the 'jeans' by putting them in a large net, and dragging them behind the ship.

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