Denim is made from durable cotton. Despite all the ideas about jeans, it can be quite heterogeneous. If initially the material was unchanged in density and “made up” only with dark-blue “indigo” paint, then at present it can be of different density and color, composition and appearance. Denim fabric almost always incorporates additive materials (lycra, viscose, etc.).
There are many types of this fabric.
Denim is the most expensive and popular material. It was denim that was used by the legendary Levi Straus in the manufacture of trousers for gold prospectors. It is produced by twill interweaving of two threads: freshly dyed main and unpainted. The main and only distinguishing feature of this material is the reverse side of such jeans is always white.
Gin is the fabric that is considered the cheapest of jeans. This is cotton dyed with just one dye. It is customary to sew denim trousers from such fabric, which are sold in clothing stores at a low price.
Broken twill - denim material with herringbone pattern. Distortion in the direction of the twill lines makes the surface much more prominent and denser.
Chambray is a relatively thin denim. They use it in most cases for the manufacture of light wardrobe items, such as summer shirts, sundresses, underwear. If you're in search of fabric for a dress, chambray is a great choice.
Stretch is a material in which, in addition to cotton, elastane is added. As a result , jeans perfectly fit the figure. Due to this feature, stretch is used mainly for the manufacture of female models of trousers.
Aikru is a denim material without any artificial coloring, that is, a natural color. Nowadays, just such a color is very popular among lovers of jeans trousers.
The quality of jeans is usually dependent on the cotton from which it is made. What material is denim made of?
Mexican cotton. The length of its fiber is 24 mm. It allows you to get very high-quality, almost glossy denim, without unwanted scars.
Barbados cotton. It is quite soft, shiny and strong. It is attributed to the category of quality materials, but a significant minus of this raw material is that it is too difficult to cultivate and collect. That is why in the current clothing market the proportion of jeans made of this fabric is only 7%.
Zimbabwean cotton - cotton of excellent quality, which also has a fairly low price.
Asian and Indian cotton are obviously the most widely used type of cotton. Almost half of the world's denim is made from this material. Its composition is a fiber of considerable length, which is often called short-staple.
Thus, jeans fabric is very diverse both in composition and in appearance. Probably, it was precisely this diversity that caused such a wild popularity of jeans clothes. After all, there are hardly any things more practical, convenient, familiar and fashionable than jeans.