Denim Jeans take their name from two Mediterranean cities.
Jeans are probably the most popular clothes in the world. We wear jeans everywhere and every day, enjoying the convenience of this wonderful fabric. But what do we know about its history?
Jeans are named after the city of Genoa, Italy (in French, "Gênes"), a place where cotton corduroy, called either jean or jeane, was manufactured. The name “denim” comes from the name of a sturdy fabric called “Serge de Nîmes”, originally made in Nîmes, France, hence “de Nîmes” - “denim”. Weavers of Nîmes tried to reproduce the Genoa cotton corduroy. After several tries, failures and errors, they finally developed another twill fabric that became extremely popular and known as denim.
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83 Comments
Jay Sheppard
Good question and explanation! ...Makes me wonder if there is a Mediterranean city called dungarees?
Frank Cowell
Not Mediterranean -- a bit further away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongri
Alain Fougerit
Allan Walker, 40km to the sea is not in central France
Cheryl Love
Not Mediterranean, the name comes from a French city which is not coastal, rather inland from Montpellier and Marseille. Badly-worded question, should be reworked or removed.
Krissie
Margaret Martin, where does the question mention fabric?
Krissie
Iancompat, correct is that denim jeans were invented by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis in 1873. But they didn’t ‘invent’ denim.
Krissie
Phoebe Figalily, no it doesn’t, it asks where denim jeans get their name from, there’s no mention of jeans material.
Player
Chris Braid, totally correct form De Nimes
Player
It was woven in Neme, and the prefix de means of,hence deneme
Fern Russell
One city in France and not Mediterranean. Poor question.
rhazzmaze
Now that's the first real question in a while
dlh
No idea!
Joanne Serin
Nîmes is near but not on the Mediterranean.
Joanne Serin
Juniperbrenda, that's the brand, not the material, denim, from Nîmes .
Allan Walker
not med, denim is in central france
Caroline Wolter Hall
George Oliver Prince, That's already happened.
Caroline Wolter Hall
fcowell, "The Tyrrhenian Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea, located off of the western coast of Italy." also from the World Atlas https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/tyrrheniansea.htm