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A wardrobe without a pair of jeans is a rare one to say the least. Over the last few decades, jeans have morphed from their previous role as a practical, versatile trouser to a key fashion staple. From the cut to the stitching, there are many things that set one pair of jeans apart from the next, but understanding the wash process is key when selecting your next pair of jeans.

The way that jeans are treated and washed in the manufacturing process says a lot about the way they will look and wear. And, perhaps surprisingly, getting the wash right is thought of as one of the most difficult parts of making a pair of jeans. .

From dark indigo jeans to faded vintage look styles, the way that the jeans are washed can give them a whole different look, so two pairs of jeans that may look identical before being treated can be drastically different once they have been through the washing process.

Raw denim jeans are the most traditional and those in the most untreated state. This type of jean will start out typically quite rich in colour and feeling stiff, but over time, raw denim softens up and conforms to your movements and body. However, many people don’t want to wait for their jeans to have a lived-in look. They prefer a distressed aesthetic that suggests a long life for their new jeans without the growing pains. Luckily there are plenty of developments in jean manufacturing and design that allow jeans to be worked and processed at earlier stages.

When creating vintage denim, the manufacturers spend a lot of time ensuring that a new pair of jeans look old. The idea is to create jeans that look as though they have been worn and loved for many years. This generally involves the repeated washing of raw denim. To cut the process down from the large amount of time it would take the denim to fade naturally, these jeans are washed in a chemical bath.

There are other ways to create a vintage or well loved look however, these include; stone washed denim, when the jeans are washed with the aid of a pumice stone; sandblasted jeans, an old technique that sees pairs of jeans blasted with sand from a canon or gun. This technique is ideal for creating worn patches. Additionally, jeans are sometimes dyed or tinted with a darker dye to create a dirty denim look.

Coated denim is a new progression that provides a different finish again. Their waxed coatings can be either shiny or matte and can also be scraped to create new textures throughout the jeans. Coated jeans can also start out quite stiff, but this is part of the look. Experts recommend always washing your jeans inside out in cold water and waiting as long as possible between washes.

Buying a new pair of jeans may not be easy with so many options and separate treatments, but understanding the wash process of denim should help you choose your next pair of jeans with confidence.

Daniel Collins writes on a number of topics on behalf of a digital marketing agency and a variety of clients. As such, this article is to be considered a professional piece with business interests in mind.

While nowadays the working clothes are, depending on the cases, mono-use or especially made for a specific environment and use, in the past centuries security on the workplace was a topic still to be developed: to make work clothes they simply looked for resistant and cheap materials.
When cotton became easily available and cheap, in Nimes the production of a kind of cloth made with linen and cotton started, and it was known as the cloth de Nime, hence the name denim. It arrived in Italy, where in Liguria it was coloured with the bleu de Gnes and initially used for the ships sails, to cover the goods and to make the Genoese mariners trousers, because it was very durable. From there it reached the United States, where the production of work pants, which we can consider as the ancestor of the modern personal protection clothing, gave life to the blue jeans.
Until the first half of the XIX century, saying blue-jeans you meant the cloth, while from then on that term will indicate the famous model of trousers. While in those times they were used as a protection clothe, durable and cheap, together with the boots, rather different from the modern safety shoes.
The arrival of the cloth from Nimes coloured with the blue of Genoa in the United States is due to Lb Strau, who after his arrival and naturalization in the States changed his name into Levi Strauss: Levi stayed in New York for some years with his brothers, who had started a business with clothes. Some years later he moved to San Francisco, where he used the demand of resistant cloths for the production of working clothes and sails opening, together with his brother-in-law David Stern, the Levi Stauss & Co.
Apart from having been among the first one to use the cloth de Nimes bleu de Gnes for clothing, Levi Strauss has the merit of having invented a particular model, especially thought for miners: the dungarees.
Once entered in the market, the jeans arrived in the whole world: comfortable, durable and cheap, they were perfect for anyone who needed trousers to work. In fact, Garibaldis Redshirts, in Italy, are said to have wore blue jeans during the battle of Marsala, in 1860.
To remind the origins of the blue jeans, in 2004 in Genoa they made a giant pair of jeans, 18 meters high and with a waistline of 5 meters: they have been designed by the students of the artistic high school Barabino and made by those of the professional high school Duchessa di Galliera, using six hundred pairs of used jeans.
Nowadays the situation changed a lot both for jeans and working clothes: while the first are not the cheap and durable clothes of once, the latter became more technical, especially studied to protect at the best those who wear them.