When Did Womens Jeans Start Becoming Fashionable?
Everyone must already know a little bit about the history of jeans and so they kind of know when it started becoming fashionable. For a really quick run down, jeans are made from denim material and Mr Strauss, a German Jew came up with them. He paired up with an American guy who thought it would be great to put rivets on all the parts of a pair of pants that rip easily. This is why we have rivets on our pockets and other areas.
So, originally they were used for the working people and during the war too in factories. They became a lot more popular and used very much as part of the fashion in the 1950′s. They were worn by the youth of the day as a sort of rebellion. Because both men and women wore jeans as a working pair of pants, when it crossed over to the world of fashion, both men and women wore it too. That is how womens jeans came about.
This is pretty much the answer to the question I was hoping to answer as the title of my post. What more should I talk about here. How about the changes of it throughout the ages? Well, not throughout the ages but rather the decades.
The location of the zipper used to be different for men and women with men wearing it down the front and women on the side. Not sure why this was the case and I guess others were not so sure of it either because it soon changed to how it is now, all down the middle.
Women wearing pants was not an often seen thing back in the 1950′s so it truly was a rebellion for women to be wearing jeans at all. As the years went on it became more and more acceptable, and this is the same story as with anything that is rebellious at first and womens jeans were no different.
Jeans are still worn mainly for casual places but more and more they are being dressed up and worn to less casual places like a night club or a party. I still do not think that it is widely accepted to use jeans to a formal event, however men can get away with this more than women.
So there you have it, the history of jeans in a nutshell and the answer to the question of when did jeans on women start becoming fashionable.
Vanessa Hudders. Woman. Jeans Wearer.
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