Each time you step into your jeans,you are putting on a piece of history.The world's favorite trousers are now over one hundred fifty yearsold.
The first jeans were made in 1850,in the California gold rush.A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold miners'normal trousers wore out too quickly.Strauss had bought some strong canvas,intead,he made some trousers out of it and those were the first jeans—in brown at that time.
The trousers sold well,and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even stronger.He found a material that was better than canvas — a kind of cotton cloth that was manufactured only in the south of France.Strauss ordered boat-loads of that materoal and,to keep color consistent,had it all dyed blue.The resuting trousers then became known as "blue jeans."