Brief Intoduction to History of Jeans

In “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, clothing of people was described out in Chapters 1 & 2, since this story was written in the early 20th Century, we would like to know more about the history of clothing and how it came about, primarily focusing on jeans, giving a brief introduction.

Jeans, in the past could be recognised by two names, denim trousers or fabric trousers. In the 18th Century, jeans were made in a town near Turin named Chieri which is in Italy. At this point of time, these are not the type of jeans that we have today, it was only after it was converted by Levis Strauss (thus having the brand Levi). He had a customer, called Davis, who had bought cloth from him for his torn pants since Levi Strauss had a company, selling bolt of cloths. From this idea, Levi decided to use copper rivets for pocket corners and button fly, thus resulting in the jeans we have today.