Kevlar jeans
Simply known as ‘Kevlar jeans’ to most bikers, this
sweeping naming convention hides a vast array of technical innovation and
wildly different construction methods which all achieve the same thing:
combining protection from impact and abrasion with the casual looks of the
world’s favorite cotton product.
Technically, Kevlar jeans are not Kevlar jeans at all: most commonly
they are Kevlar-lined denim jeans, and quite often the Kevlar is not Kevlar but
the generic version called Aramid.
Kevlar is a trademark of the fiber specialists DuPont; it is
their version of the aramid fiber, milled into the Kevlar thread, whose
singular quality is its strength. The thread is turned into Kevlar fabrics that
protect mankind from all sorts of ills, from abrasion protection in motorcycle
jeans to bullet-proof vests.
What makes a Kevlar-based fabric special is not so much that
DuPont has fundamentally reengineered the aramid fiber, but that DuPont is
specialists in their field: which means that abrasion-resistant fabric made
from the Kevlar fiber is of consistently
high quality. To ensure this is still the case in the end product, DuPont
control the production chain from yarn to final garment.
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