Jean Genie Let Yourself Go
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Hendrik Pohl
Pohl is a regular author on mens fashion and style. He is also the founder of Wholesale tie-shop Uniform Ties - A retailer specializing in custom neckwear for uniforms. The site also offers more information on School Uniform Neckties. By Hendrik Pohl
Published on 11/10/2010
Blue Jean material, also called denim, was originally invented to make work clothes more durable back in the late 1800's and marketed by Levi Strauss to prospectors, settlers, farmers and just about anyone that needed to wear work clothes that would not wear out so easily.
Blue Jean material, also called denim, was originally invented to make work clothes more durable back in the late 1800's and marketed by Levi Strauss to prospectors, settlers, farmers and just about anyone that needed to wear work clothes that would not wear out so easily. They entered the men's fashion arena during the 1950's and especially were popular during the 1960's and almost the uniform of youthful rebellion and hippie culture.
Their popularity has not waned since. In the 1970's, we saw during the time at the height of the disco dance craze, the jean fashion was to wear your jeans as tightly as you could. Taken to the extreme, this meant putting them on while still slightly damp and having to lie down on the floor to be able to do so. That all ended when the punk rock music and new wave scene started in the 1980's. During this time, everyone starting wearing safety pins on their clothes and piercing various parts of their skin.
In rebellion to the perfectly new, absolutely tight jeans, suddenly jeans that were ripped were much more cool. In the 1990's grunge music continued this trend until all the clothes looked like you got them out of the nearest dumpster.
Because of the versatility and durability of the fabric they are made from, a pair of comfortable jeans may be worn until they are worn out and worn through. Even this result became a fashion statement. Brand new jeans did not have that highly desired "worn" look so this created a brand new fashion line of jeans that were sold as new but were also distressed. As part of this trend, the newly made jeans were stone-washed (literally washed in a bin with tumbling stones to beat the fabric into softness), they were splashed with bleach, splattered with paint or they were cut with razors, or scissors to make intentional holes in them.
If you could not afford the highly priced stylishly distressed jeans, you could always make them yourself, by washing them many times and slicing them up in the most fashionable ways, or just by wearing them on the weekend to work underneath your car and/or paint your shed. Or you could go to the nearest second hand store and probably find some that were already very distressed. Jeans are probably one of the most popular items to recycle in this way.
So where did we go from there? Colors of course. After the turn of the century, the end of the millennium or from some time slightly before, not only were there the still very desirable classic blue jeans in a wide variety of cuts and style to suit any taste, but we also had every color of the rainbow made out of jean material. Men can now wear any shade of jean color imaginable from black, to blue, to white, to hot pink (especially if they are rock stars). Of course blue jeans are still the most popular.
Their popularity has not waned since. In the 1970's, we saw during the time at the height of the disco dance craze, the jean fashion was to wear your jeans as tightly as you could. Taken to the extreme, this meant putting them on while still slightly damp and having to lie down on the floor to be able to do so. That all ended when the punk rock music and new wave scene started in the 1980's. During this time, everyone starting wearing safety pins on their clothes and piercing various parts of their skin.
In rebellion to the perfectly new, absolutely tight jeans, suddenly jeans that were ripped were much more cool. In the 1990's grunge music continued this trend until all the clothes looked like you got them out of the nearest dumpster.
Because of the versatility and durability of the fabric they are made from, a pair of comfortable jeans may be worn until they are worn out and worn through. Even this result became a fashion statement. Brand new jeans did not have that highly desired "worn" look so this created a brand new fashion line of jeans that were sold as new but were also distressed. As part of this trend, the newly made jeans were stone-washed (literally washed in a bin with tumbling stones to beat the fabric into softness), they were splashed with bleach, splattered with paint or they were cut with razors, or scissors to make intentional holes in them.
If you could not afford the highly priced stylishly distressed jeans, you could always make them yourself, by washing them many times and slicing them up in the most fashionable ways, or just by wearing them on the weekend to work underneath your car and/or paint your shed. Or you could go to the nearest second hand store and probably find some that were already very distressed. Jeans are probably one of the most popular items to recycle in this way.
So where did we go from there? Colors of course. After the turn of the century, the end of the millennium or from some time slightly before, not only were there the still very desirable classic blue jeans in a wide variety of cuts and style to suit any taste, but we also had every color of the rainbow made out of jean material. Men can now wear any shade of jean color imaginable from black, to blue, to white, to hot pink (especially if they are rock stars). Of course blue jeans are still the most popular.