Surprisingly, we almost do not think about the details of our daily clothes! Such details as familiar rivets on jeans, or loops on the shirt, seem to us, at best, an integral accessory. It is a little offensive.
After all, all these little things were carefully designed to make life easier for us! Do not believe? Then read the article! Why do you need a little pocket in jeans? 0 Fashion varies, jeans remain. But few know that any, even the most tiny detail on jeans, has a very practical purpose. The beginning of global jeans accounts for 1853.
It was then that Levy Strauss, together with the cousin David, became the owners of the store "Levi Strauss & Co.. It was the time of prospectors. Many people rushed to California, hoping to get rich in gold mining. San Francisco was literally crowded with workers, and they needed durable, comfortable and inexpensive clothing. It was for them that the first jeans were tailored and sewn, and a small triangular pocket was intended to hide him a precious find - a nugget. Why do you need crosses on jeans?
We have long been accustomed to ripples, and do not pay attention to them at all. But in fact, they have their own story. As we have already found out, Levi Strauss was an exceptionally smart person. Having learned in 1829 that the workers often have to repair their clothes, because she constantly broke down on a seam, he immediately "insured" seams with rims. Why do you need flap fabric to new clothes?
Most people are convinced that the flavors of the fabric, from which the clothes are sewn are attached to the finished product in order for, in the case of which, it was imperceptible to make a patch. In fact, it is not. The flap of matter is needed in order to understand how "behaves" the fabric when washing and ironing. Absolutely practical meaning! Loeting on the shirt: Why? 0 This little item also has its own purpose. Such shirts with hinges first appeared in the 60s of the last century. Manufacturers stated that the loop was needed in order to hang a shirt in a sports dressing room. Such a witty designer move allowed to keep the thing smooth.
It is said that these shirts instantly became fashionable among students of elite universities. Young people even found a way with the help of a loop signaling the surrounding about whether their heart is employed, or free. In the first case, the loop cut off. Why do you need buttons on the collar? 0 Who would have thought that the first bugs on the collars began to wear polo players? Despite the fact that the collar could be fastened with the help of a pin, or starch, the athletes were loved by buttons. Still would! They did not constrain movements, like starch collars and they could not be roaming like a pin.
When, in 1896, John I. Bruks (one of the heirs of the founder of the famous American firm Brooks Brothers, saw these collars in the polo players, then came to such a delight from the original idea that, without losing a minute, gave an orders to get started Over the production of the same collars for standard shirts.
As soon as Brooks Brothers released the first batch of white shirts with a fastened collar, the thing became popular. Perhaps a partly because from now on the wives no longer had to stark collars on her husband's shirts, and approach them suitable pins.