Workers stack Levi's 501 jeans in San Francisco in 1997. Denim is now the state’s official fabric. MIKE PERSSON AP Next time you pull on a pair of jeans, you won’t just be embracing casual ...

“The reason most jeans are blue is deeply rooted in the fabric’s 19th-century origins,” Massi says. “When Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented their riveted denim trousers in 1873, ...

Denim was the fabric of nonconformity, and because it was cheap and easy to clean, blue jeans became especially popular with kids (and the mothers washing their clothing) from the 1930s to the 1950s.

American blue jeans were born in San Francisco in the 1870s and ... Texas — a large mill that’s just a few years old — is witnessing increased demand for made-in-America fabrics from ...

This cotton fabric from the site of Huaca Prieta in Peru is more than 5,500 years old and features indigo blue stripes. Photograph courtesy Lauren A. Badams The Super-Ancient Origins of Your Blue ...

At Burberry, Christopher Bailey reimagined the iconic trench in blue-jean fabric. A new label called Marques'Almeida emerged with a buzzy London runway show that was almost exclusively denim.

'There is blue jean in every painting except one,' she added. 'We have accounts from an English tailor saying that this fabric came from Genoa, and that is the origin of jeans, ...