How did blue jeans get to be "blue jeans"?
Jeans may be as American as apple pie, but the name comes to us from the land of pasta, via the land of croissants. The cotton cloth once used in work clothes was made in Genoa, a place that French weavers called 'Genes.' The name stuck to the pants, and all that was lacking was a designer label.
During the nineteenth century California Gold Rush - before Calvin Klein or The GAP - a young tailor named Levi Strauss sold his jeans to miners. (He made them from a French cloth called serge de Nimes, from which we get "denim") Straussdied the jeans blue so that dirt wouldn't easily show on them. All this so you would have something comfortable yet stylish to wear to school or after work.
Source: Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
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