Fun Facts About Jeans
- The average American owns 7 pairs of jeans!
- Jeans-inventor Levi Strauss of San Francisco is now the world's largest clothing manufacturer. Nothing like a great idea that keeps on giving!
- "Jeans are the Coca Cola of clothing – consumed almost everywhere in the world." Great cliche, couldn't resist using it.
- The original fabric used to make jeans was a serge from de Nimmes, France - what we now know as "denim."
- Banned! In the 1950s and 60s most schools prohibited students from wearing jeans to school as they were deemed to represent rebellion. Can't have that!
- Although popular throughout the world, jeans were often branded a symbol of evil capitalist corruption, and closet evil capitalists in these countries had a hard time buying them.
