For this 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, here at Meoutfit I remember (since the address of the blog) for the uninitiated, that Giuseppe Garibaldi better known as the Hero of Two Worlds, was a frequent bearer of the ancestors of blue-jeans.
Why jeans are italians, I give it to America.
The birthright made in the manufacturing of jeans is traced historically to the city of Genoa and the Genoese in general, virtue of the great textile tradition since ancient times has been an important voice in the Ligurian exports of manufactured goods (such as velvet and damask Zoagli Lorsica).
The English word blue jeans it is thought to derive directly from the phrase blue or bleu de Genes of Genoa in French.
According to other versions of the practical and resistant "pants work" in ancient times were sewn with linen Nimes (de Nimes and then denim) of indigo and were worn by Genoese sailors. Nîmes was the direct competitor of Chieri in the production of this fabric, but in any case it seems certain that the transformation from pieces of cloth to their clothing was in city \u200b\u200bof Genoa.
Another forerunner of the denim fabric is identified bordatto in Liguria, a particularly resistant fabric that was produced in the past centuries to pack work clothes.
The term of the English language is used jeans since 1567, was in fact in the sixteenth century, the port of Genoa began the major export of this material. The Genoa fustian, of medium quality at affordable prices, dyed with indigo, it was imposed in Europe, particularly among the British merchants.
About More recently, Giuseppe Garibaldi, who had already been a sailor in the Superb, during unloading of a lot to put Marsala like many of his partisans a pair of "Genovese", now preserved in Rome at the Central Museum of the Risorgimento in the Vittoriano.
Despite all the evil that we want, it's always nice to be Italian, and if you can not read what is written behind the label of a Levi's or any of another blue-jeans, we read, wrote big, ITALY THANKS!
