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powerful. Its sailors traveled all around the world. Genoa City decided to make better pants for their sailors. They used the dungaree cloth because it was sturdy and strong. The new pants were called 'geanos' or jeanos'. Sailors could use it in both wet and dry weather. They could roll up their pants when cleaning the ship. To clean the pants, they put them inside a net, threw them in the ocean, and dragged the net behind the ship. This is when they realize their color changes to white. This is how bleached jeans were invented.
Later French workers in Nimes also made jeans. They used a different type of cloth called denim. But it was also sturdy and dyed blue, like the jeanos. In 1872, there was a small cloth merchant in Germany. His name was Levi Strauss. He bought and sold denim from France but Levi Strauss got into trouble and had to go away to America. In New York, Levi leamed how to sew. When he moved to San Francisco, he met many gold diggers. These men went to find gold in rivers. The weather was often bad and the men were only thin pants. Levi started to cut pants out of denim. He sold these jeans to the gold diggers, and they loved them. Soon all factory workers and farmers were wearing jeans too.They were comfortable and easy to take care of and cheap.
In 1950, popular movie and music stars like Elvis Presley and James Dean started wearing jeans.Those jeans were really tight and parents didn't like them. But they caught on with teenagers. Jeans became so popular because they meant freedom. Teenagers wanted to be independent and to make their
