Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Why is jeans textile called denim?
The cotton textile used to make jeans is called denim because originally it was imported "from Nimes" (de Nimes) a small town in south of France
The word "Jean" was refering to a different, lighter cotton textile. It comes from the french name for the town Genoa in Italy: Gênes, where the first denim trousers were made.
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