13th Oct 2009
Denim Jackets – The Everlasting Casual Chic
Denim is a material made of cotton woven in a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs (twill). This means that denim fabric has a “face side” and a “back side”. This is unlike your typical plain weave fabrics where both sides look the same. The face side of denim is the more durable than the back side and is the face that is used for fashion purposes. Your traditional denim clothing is dyed blue which is where the now-famous term ‘blue jeans’ comes from – denim pants that have been dyed blue. Denim is used to make many other articles of clothing aside from the traditional blue jeans. You can now also buy denim overalls, capris, shorts, dresses and jackets among other things. Nowadays you can also purchase denim jewelry which takes the form of silver jewelry with denim accents.
Denim jackets are probably the second most popular article of clothing made out of denim after denim jeans. Like other denim clothing, they can be dyed any number of colors which means that your clothing store may stock both your normal denim jackets as well as red denim jackets. Like with all clothing, the different colored jackets are used as different fashion pieces. You can also get denim jackets of different lengths, ranging from your very sort cropped denim jackets to long denim jackets which sometimes take the form of trenchcoats made of denim.
Many denim pieces including denim jackets are stonewashed to give them a worn-out appearance that would usually be achieved by years of constant wear. In addition to this, the stonewashing process makes your usually stiff denim clothing softer and more flexible. Traditionally, the stonewashing process, like its name suggests, puts the denim into a large washer filled with water and large stones and rotated. As the stones pound the denim, the fabric fibers soften and result in the worn out stonewashed denim look.
Many popular fashion designers like Calvin Klein and Guess? also work with denim in their fashion pieces. Calvin Klein created some of the world’s first “designer jeans” and continues to modify them as time and fashion rolls onwards. Designer jeans tend to be specially designed for either men or women and are usually more fitted than your standard run-of-the-mill jeans. However, recently more relaxed cuts of designer jeans have been hitting the stores. Like all designer clothing, they typically feature the designer’s name and/or logo in a prominent position such as the back or front pockets. These famous denim designers also have on their racks special designer denim jackets, which are usually made of higher grade denim and, like their jeans, feature the designer’s name or logo somewhere prominent, often on the back or on the breast pockets.
Whatever future high fashion may hold, one thing is certain and that is that denim will never go out of style. Whether or not it is seen on the runways in Paris and Milan is immaterial as denim jeans and other denim clothing has proven to be a fashion that has lasted in time memorial; and it’s not likely to be going anywhere anytime soon.
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