Denim jeans, not invented here?

[alfredo]

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/7679

One thing we know for sure is denim was a working class fabric. It was tough as hell and could be worn for years by people who rode them hard and, especially in the case of the Genoese sailors, put them away wet. Cowboys, railway workers, fishermen, beggars and lumberjacks didn’t often get their daily lives documented for the historical record, and while high-end textiles are sometimes carefully conserved over the centuries, jeans got worn until they fell apart.

That’s why the discovery of an anonymous Northern Italian painter who depicted poor people wearing denim in the mid to late 1600s is such a surprising find. The fact that he painted the poor going about their business is rare enough; the fact in all but one of his recently-discovered works they’re wearing clearly identifiable jeans skirts, trousers and jackets is unheard of. It has earned him a snazzy anachronistic moniker, too: the Master of Blue Jeans.

He doesn't look like a 49'r.


Very cool jacket kid.

[EFerrari]

1. Omg. I thought *I* invented jeans skirts in 1974!

:)

[alfredo]

2. I invented the denim hash pipe cozy in 1972.

[EFerrari]

4. Ha! But *I* was the first to add calico inserts and quilting

a fashion felony which hopefully has a statute of limitations.



:rofl:

[alfredo]

9. No, it is a stain you can never remove.

[SoCalDem]

15. Hah!! We all dressed "funny" back in the day

Somewhere out there is a picture of me wearing hip-hugger bell-bottom op-art pants with a target on the backside:) In purple, white & turquoise:)

and then I went through the patent leather hot-pants era:) (no photos of that, THANKFULLY)...(I hope!)

[SoCalDem]

16. Here's a pic of me & my husband ( I was 5 months pregnant with our first)

summer 1973

[EFerrari]

18. At least you had the sense to hide your eyes for posterity.

:rofl:

Very nice picture, SoCalDem. Nice legs, too! :hi:

In my defense, that picture was taken on Christmas where we all had to wear the same bolt of fabric. lol

[immoderate]

3. IIRC, Levi Strauss added the rivets.

--imm

[ClassWarrior]

5. This isn't an April Fool's prank by Wrangler, is it?

:rofl:

NGU.

[EFerrari]

7. Is it? And I'm sitting here trying to figure out

what cloth I've read about in that period that would have selvages like that.

LOL

[ClassWarrior]

12. Only you would read about cloth.

:rofl:

:loveya: E!

NGU.

[EFerrari]

13. I'm terminal, I know.

:rofl:

:loveya:

[Aristus]

6. Freeper heads will explode when they find out denim was invented in FRANCE!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim

[old mark]

8. IIRC, it was called Bleu d'Travail...I don't think that anything was actually

even invented in the USA - we just stole ideas from elsewhere and SAID we invented things so stupid people would feel proud to live in the land of riveted agricultural pants and large hats for nomadic livestock handlers (the hats were actually invented in Mexico).

mark

ADDED: FWIW, the airplane was also actually invented in France by this gentleman...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_du_Temple

[alfredo]

10. Bourbon. The corn was too heavy to carry across the mountains.

[EFerrari]

11. Now, see, that's what I told merh about San Francisco.

One time she very kindly sent me some great Cajun food and I was at a loss as to how to reciprocate. She said we must have something that was ours but mostly, we just mooched other people's talent.

lol

[thelordofhell]

14. Invented in Nimes, France......using serge techniques with cotton instead of silk

Originally called "Serge de Nimes"(fabric of Nimes) and later shortened to "Denim".

[EFerrari]

17. "Serge" is the fabric I had in mind because it shows up as a class marker

when describing women's clothes in novels. But I had no clue that the fiber could be cotton.