Fashion in the United States

Apart from professional business attire fashion in the United States is eclectic and

predominantly informal. While Americans diverse cultural roots are reflected in their
clothing particularly those of recent immigrants cowboy hats and boots and leather
motorcycle jackets are emblematic of specifically American styles. Blue jeans were
popularized as work clothes in the 1850s by merchant Levi Strauss a German immigrant in San
Francisco and adopted by many American teenagers a century later. They are now widely worn
on every continent by people of all ages and social classes. Along with mass marketed
informal wear in general blue jeans are arguably U.S. cultur primary contribution to global
fashion