The History Of Denim And The Rise Of The Denim Shirt
Posted By Your Fashion Expert: Sarah Pucci

Denim History
When most people think of denim they think of denim jeans when in fact denim is not just a material it is also a color. Denim is a combination of different colors such as black, blue, gray, and white. These are the most commonly used colors to create denim.
Manufacturers that extract cotton use the largest percentage to create denim attire such as a denim shirt and denim jeans. By this, you can estimate for yourself exactly the amount of cotton that is used yearly for other wearing apparel and household materials. Denim is consuming about half of most manufacturers cotton supply.
Quick Tip:
“Make sure that you are properly washing your denim, that way you will have it a lot longer.”
Heavy Duty
A denim style shirt is often thought of as commercial attire used in heavy industry. However, a denim shirt can also be used in high fashion and is the longest lasting style of clothing in the history of fashion.
Celebrities have also added to the popularity of denim shirts by wearing them in movies as well as in high fashion to premieres and other events. The latest in fashion is denim suits worn with a denim made shirt.
Enchanted by denim, the Americans fabricated, marketed, conventionalized and popularized the wild west culture. However, originally the material was acquired from a different country. The early Americans had acquired the material and then produced functioning long-wearing clothes. The fashion industry also welcomed the denim material shirt at that same time through fashion events and runways.
Durability
Tailors started placing copper studs on denim shirt pockets to keep them from splitting, however, they were not able to handle the expense of obtaining a patent. Later, tailors decided to get assistance from a prosperous clothing manufacturer and several distributors to contribute to the style by placing the garment labels on the outside of the clothes instead of the inside. Hence, a brand-new fashion was born.
Blue jeans came from France and were already worn as bell-bottom jeans and trousers. At that time, they were also part of the Italian naval uniform and were called Geans Jeans.These trousers were very popular since other than being fashionable, they were also very practical. If a sailor accidentally fell overboard, they could easily remove the bell-bottom pants and not get their feet caught in the hem of the pants, thus staying afloat!
The denim shirt was also used in the navy as part of the sailors everyday uniform while on board the ships.





If you choose to order a regular jean rise to wear on your hips, you might want to order a size larger than you normally wear.