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Be green, have blue: wearing vintage French workwear as a sustainable act
When you pick your French Workwear Company jacket, you take part in a sustainable world. Whilst acquiring a new wardrobe piece, you are...
The French Workwear Co
Feb 5, 20191 min read


Why are workwear garments blue? And did you know the word ‘Jeans’ came from a type of blue?
The cotton workwear garments are the European equivalent of the denim clothes on the other side of the Atlantic, in both cases they have spawned the ‘blue collar’ expression that describes the working class. With the industrial revolution, workers used machines and did dirty work, the clothes would get dirty or stuck into machinery, sometimes ripped. Workers secured the obligation for their employers to provide the clothes: an outfit consisting of trousers and a jacket to go
The French Workwear Co
Mar 20, 20181 min read
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