Chit Latt (ခ်စ္လတ္)

ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အျပင္သြားခါနီး ဘာဝတ္ရမလဲဆိုတာကို စဥ္းစားစရာမလိုဘဲ ဝတ္ေနက် ေဟာင္းႏြမ္းႏြမ္း ဂ်င္းျပာေလးကုိပဲ ထုတ္ဝတ္ရင္း လူတိုင္းသေဘာက်တဲ့ စတို္င္က်တဲ့ ဒီဂ်င္းေလးရဲ. ရာဇဝင္ေလးကုိ webမွာ ရွာဖတ္ျကည့္ရင္း ကုိယ္ကိုယ္တိုင္ စိတ္ဝင္စားတာေျကာင့္ တင္လိုက္မိတယ္။

	The history of jeans
Denim and jeans - where do the names come from? The word jeans comes from a kind of material that was made in Europe. The material, called jean, was named after sailors from Genoa in Italy, because they wore clothes made from it. The word 'denim' probably came from the name of a French material, serge de Nimes: serge (a kind of material) from Nimes (a town in France).

The 18th century

At first, jean cloth was made from a mixture of things. However, in the eighteenth century as trade, slave labour, and cotton plantations increased, jean cloth was made completely from cotton. Workers wore it because the material was very strong and it did not wear out easily. It was usually dyed with indigo, a dye taken from plants in the Americas and India, which made jean cloth a dark blue colour.

The 19th century – The California Gold Rush

In 1848, gold was found in California (not too far from San Francisco) and the famous Gold Rush began. The gold miners wanted clothes that were strong and did not tear easily. In 1853, a man called Leob Strauss left his home in New York and moved to San Francisco, where he started a wholesale business, supplying clothes. Strauss later changed his name from Leob to Levi.

Rivets

A big problem with the miners' clothes were the pockets, which easily tore away from the jeans. A man called Jacob Davis had the idea of using metal rivets (fasteners) to hold the pockets and the jeans together so that they wouldn't tear. Davis wanted to patent his idea, but he didn't have enough money, so in 1872, he wrote to Levi Strauss and offered Strauss a deal if Strauss would pay for the patent. Strauss accepted, and he started making copper-riveted 'waist overalls' (as jeans were called then).

In 1886, Levi sewed a leather label on their jeans. The label showed a picture of a pair of jeans that were being pulled between two horses. This was to advertise how strong Levi jeans were: even two horses could not tear them apart.