Fashions That Came…And Stayed

JEANS! JEANS! JEANS!  In 1853 blue jeans were being manufactured and sold for work clothes and to cowboys.  In the 1950′s teenagers picked them up as a fashion statement and that’s what they’ve been ever since.  Skinny, baggy, tapered, straight, boot cut, mommy-cut, maternity, bell bottom, low slung and even lower slung.

The word “jeans” comes from the French phrase bleu de Gênes, literally the blue of Genoa. Jeans fabric, or denim, originated in the French town of Nimes, from which ‘denim’ (deNimes) gets its name. (Wikipedia)