Nearly 150-year-old jeans were auctioned at an auction in the US state of Colorado for a record amount of nearly 78,000 euros (76,000 dollars). Never before has so much money been paid for jeans. Levi's jeans date from the 80s of the nineteenth century, 1880 or later. A few years ago, the pants were found by a self-confessed “denim archaeologist” in an abandoned mine shaft in western America. It would be one of the oldest existing jeans in the world.

A century and a half ago, the frustration of an anonymous American laid the seeds for a global fashion phenomenon. The jeans are 150 years old, and it all started with a workman who kept tearing out of his pants. The story of jeans often starts with Levi Strauss, who started manufacturing the garment on a large scale in San Francisco in 1873. But the history of origin begins more than two years earlier and 350 kilometers northeast, in Reno, Nevada. There, in January 1871, Jewish tailor Jacob Davis was asked to make extra sturdy pants.

From white workman pants to haute couture: the jeans are 150 years old

Do you love your trusty jeans as much as we do? Then, like many others, you won't keep up with the times. Indeed, jeans are celebrating their 150th anniversary this year! Nevertheless, our clothing already offers many more options than we think, says fashion researcher Lianne Toussaint (Utrecht University). Did you know, for example, that it is already possible to make an invisibility cloak, just like in Harry Potter?

Wondering why we still stay true to our trusty jeans and what other cool options are hidden in our wardrobe? #jeans #kleding #mode

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