Denim fabric originated in France is basically cotton. It’s a durable fabric woven with fine white warp threads and little bit heavier blue weft threads. The weave structure is twill, because of the twill weave, fabric is very strong. In the traditional denim the blue weft is dyed with Indigo. Denim is highly popular due to its hard wearing nature and it does not require frequent washing and hence most of the people like it. One can read more about it at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim
Just for those who love to know the history, the story goes that “jean” derives from the word Genoa. It refers to the material that sailors from Genoa used in their pants. This was a coarse cotton-wool or linen blend. It originally came from Italy, and is evidence of the custom of naming a material for its place of origin. By the late 16th century, jean was already being produced in Lancashire, England. The composition eventually evolved to 100% cotton by the 18th century. On the other hand, the origin of the term “denim” can be traced to late 16th century France where a fabric known as “serge de Nîmes” was very popular. Both fabrics grew in popularity, denim being the stronger and more expensive of the two. The major difference between them was that denim was woven with one coloured thread and the other white, while jean was woven with two coloured threads. Details can be seen at http://www.denverfabrics.com/pages/static/denim/denim.htm
How did the modern term “jean” come to refer to pants made out of a fabric called denim? The answer lies in the story of Loeb Strauss. This is where the modern history of blue jeans starts, visit the link for detail. http://www.levistrauss.com/sites/default/files/librarydocument/2010/4/History-Denim.pdf Interesting enough that 48% of the world’s trade in fabric is in cotton where as archaeologists found cotton fabric 5000 years old in Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan which tells cotton fibre was in use long long time ago and now denim is everywhere. Although denim was never completely out of style and history of blue jeans goes on, many still like designer jeans but in practice the basic style jeans are mostly worn all over the world. There are plenty of online sellers too and wide variety of styles and price. If one is looking for basic jean of quality denim, it worth to have a look at http://www.mamuciumgear.co.uk/20-jeans
