A trip in the Andes

[aster]

Cool photos! Thanks for posting.

Here is some info about blue jeans.

The Origin of Blue Jeans

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsoni ... -89612175/

Thank you Henry. : )

Incidentally, I knew the story behind the Levi's Jeans and the mine workers and the need for more durable material and tayloring. Somehow though, I also used to associate the jeans with cattle herders or cowboys since they needed very durable pants while on horseback and in the wilderness. The Duck model with the brown colour giving way to indigo blue-dyed ones seems an original thought though, since almost everyone seem to like blue for its calm and cool. : )

Thanks for the link. Refreshing what I knew and more was good.

Yildiz

[the_hefay]

Thanks for the link Henry.

[sury]

I remember reading somewhere that the word denim came from fabrique de Nimes. The characteristic of that fabric being
its indigo color.

Sury

[the_hefay]

and indigo came from India, correct?

[aster]

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and indigo came from India, correct?

Hi Jeff;
Apparently the plant species Indigofera were cultivated in Peru, India, East Asia and Egypt in antiquity. According to sources the plant was growing in Indus Valley about 5000 years ago and that's how it got its name. In the Indus Valley, the plant was called Nila but Peruvians seem to be one of the earliest people to use the Indigofera plant for dying fabrics and other.

A Good Link On INDIGO

Isn't it ironic that I inquired about the jeans that are dyed in Indigo Blue assuming it was more of a Western or modern look and history points us to Peru for the first records of dying with indigo ? Quite a correlation !

Yildiz

[aster]

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and indigo came from India, correct?

Hi Jeff;
Apparently the plant species Indigofera were cultivated in Peru, India, East Asia and Egypt in antiquity. According to sources the plant was growing in Indus Valley about 5000 years ago and that's how it got its name. In the Indus Valley, the plant was called Nila but Peruvians seem to be the earliest people to use the Indigofera plant for dying fabrics and other.

A Good Link On INDIGO

Isn't it ironic that I inquired about the jeans that are dyed in Indigo Blue assuming it was more of a Western or modern look and history points us to Peru for the first records of dying with indigo ? Quite a correlation !

Yildiz

[the_hefay]