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Blue Jeans: Celebrate a Birthday! (PLANT MATTERS).(Brief Article)
Blue jeans are almost 150 years old. Jeans are often called Levi's, named after Levi Strauss, who invented them. Strauss first make work pants out of canvas for California gold miners.
Later, he used cotton denim that he dyed blue using dye made from the indigo plant. By the 1860s, blue jeans were being worn by farmers and cowboys throughout the American West.
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Today, jeans are worn in all parts of the world and not just as work clothes. And jeans come in many different colors. The most popular color, though, is still blue.
Look at your jeans with a magnifying glass. Can you see the tiny threads that make up the material? Each thread is made from fibers. And the fibers come from cotton plants.
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Special machines can make the cotton threads any thickness, from very thin to very thick.
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