Jeans are a type of trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans", with the addition of copper pocket rivets added by Jacob W. Davis in [ 1 ] and patented by Davis and Levi Strauss on May 20, Prior to the patent, the term "blue jeans" had been long in use for various garments including trousers, overalls, and coats , constructed from blue-colored denim.
Originally designed for miners , modern jeans were popularized as casual wear by Marlon Brando and James Dean in their s films, particularly The Wild One and Rebel Without a Cause , [ 3 ] leading to the fabric becoming a symbol of rebellion among teenagers, especially members of the greaser subculture. From the s onwards, jeans became common among various youth subcultures and subsequently young members of the general population. Nowadays, they are one of the most popular types of trousers in Western culture.
Historic brands include Levi's , Lee , and Wrangler. Genoa's jeans fabric was a fustian textile of "medium quality and of reasonable cost", very similar to cotton corduroy for which Genoa was famous, and was "used for work clothes in general". The Genoese navy equipped its sailors with jeans, as they needed a fabric that could be worn wet or dry.
It was replaced by indigo synthesis methods developed in Germany. By the 17th century, jean was a crucial textile for working-class people in Northern Italy. This is seen in a series of genre paintings from around the 17th century attributed to an artist now referred to as the Master of the Blue Jeans.
The fabric would have been Genoese jean, which was cheaper. Genre painting came to prominence in the late 16th century, and the non-nobility subject matter in all ten paintings places them among others that portray similar scenes. Dungaree was mentioned for the first time in the 17th century, when it was referred to as cheap, coarse thick cotton cloth, often colored blue but sometimes white, worn by impoverished people in what was then a region of Bombay , India a dockside village called Dongri.
