Mid 1970s to early 1980s: In the mid-1970s, blue jeans are trumped by the popularity of colored corduroy pants. In the late 1970s, jeans become a status symbol when designers like Jordache and Calvin ...

For a long time, “fashion” had nothing to do with it. Even before the Industrial Revolution, laborers from around the globe–farmhands, builders, miners–often wore some kind of homespun denim workwear.