剑桥英语(青少年)第二级P16

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剑桥英语（青少年）第二级P16

From Workwear to Fashion

Jeans are popular all over the world-millions of people wear them every day. But who invented them, and when did they become fashionable?

Levi Strauss-a name that is now famous-was the man who invented jeans. Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829, but went to the USA as a young man. At first he lived in New York, but in 1853 he moved to San Francisco, where he worked with his brother. They worked in a shop selling clothes to men who were looking for gold in the California Gold Rush. The men were working very hard in difficult conditions, and they needed very strong trousers.

Strauss was the first man to begin producing special, strong trousers for working men. He made these trousers from a fabric called ‘denim’-a tough fabric that probably came from a town called Nimes in France. Many people now think the English word ‘denim’ comes from the French words ‘de nimes’, which means ‘from nimes’. Later, Strauss added special metal buttons to the trousers to make them even better and they immediately became very popular.

In the early part of the 20th century, only working men wore jeans in workplaces like factories. But after the Second World war, teenage boys and young men at college started to wear them to go


out. These boys called the trousers ‘jeans’. In 1960s, more Americans started wearing them as informal, casual clothes outside the workplace and denim jeans became fashionable. In the 1960s and 1970s, ‘decorated denim’ became very popular. These are jeans decorated with sequins, beads, colours and patterns.

At that time, jeans were usually flared, but today, there are many different styles of jeans; straight, baggy, flared, low-waisted-almost any style you can imagine.

Today, millions of people wear jeans to go to work in offices, as well as to go out. Jeans are as popular today as they ever were, but there is one thing no one is really sure about-why are they called ‘jeans’?

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