Jeans, blue jeans, jeans, or mahonés, are the different names by which a variety of pants are known, which are generally made of a type of fabric known as denim. This style of pants was created in 1871 by Levi Strauss & Co and Jacob Davis and patented two years later by Levi Strauss and Davis. Initially they were created for men originating from the old west of the United States and also for miners, but it was not until the 50s that they began to become popular among the youngest, but especially in those who belonged to the Grease culture. By the 60s, followers of the hippie subculture were among those who most used these pants at that time, and since then they have been used by all kinds of people, from different cultures and subcultures.
Depending on each region and each country, jeans receive different names, among which stand out, charros, cowboys, llaneros or gauchas. In the case of the Cowboys, it is a fairly common term in the English language, since it is called that way to the most skilled horsemen who participated in the American civil war and who faced the aborigines of the area.
Currently the production of jeans has a considerable difference from the first, is that they are made of a fabric called denim, cloth colored white and made from cotton, which subsequently is colored blue. For this reason, the first phase that has to be carried out for its elaboration is to obtain the raw material, after that what is done is to separate the fibers from the cotton, this is done so that they open and stretch
In the beginning, Strauss and Davis carried out different experiments with various fabrics, one of them was the so-called duck brown cotton, whose weight was less than denim once they managed to find denim, (a fabric with which pants were created of work) all the pants that they made from now on were made with this fabric. As for its production, it was the responsibility of a manufacturer in the United States, but according to some historians, the origin of denim is located in France, specifically in Nimes.
