Call Me Leob, I Mean Levi – The Early Days Of Levi Jeans
In its early days, well before stonewashed jeans came into popularity, jean cloth was produced from a variety of items. However, in the eighteenth century as trade, slave labor, and cotton plantations became more pervasive, jean cloth was derived entirely from cotton. Workers liked it because the material was very tough and it did not wear out as quickly as other materials such as wool. It was usually dyed with indigo to give it its blue coloration, a dye taken from plants in the Americas and India.
