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source: How Jeans Took Over the World, Insider, Youtube

1. Where can the history of denim fabric be traced back and why did they use this fabric?
2. Where was the fabric, denim, first produced?
3. What brand name is the most well-know in the world of jeans?
4. Who was Levi Strauss?
5. Who was Jacob Davis? What did he want to do?
6. What can be found in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan?
7. How much is the turnaround time?
8. What happened on 20^th May, 1873?
9. Why were Levi’s rivets revolutionary?
10. When was the name ‘jeans’ first officially used?
11. What did the jeans become in the 1960’s?
12. What style was in fashion in the 1980’s, 1990’s and early 2000’s?
13. How do Rhianna and Kim Kardashian wear jeans?
14. Why has denim been a mainstay?

keys/megoldások: 1. to Genoa, Italy, in the 17th century. It was used for work clothes, making it a crucial textile for working class people of northern Italy.; 2. Weavers in Nimes, France, tried to reproduce this fabric. The end result was what we know today as denim.; 3. Levi’s; 4. Levi Strauss shop-owner who moved to San Francisco to open a dry good store and targeted towards people who had moved west for the Gold Rush.; 5. He was a tailor who often bought bolts of fabric from Strauss, asked Strauss to partner with him to patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets.; 6. a Levi’s Store where there is a Lot 1 program, which allows a customer to design their perfect pair of jeans, from fit, to type of denim, down to every last detail; 7. It is 6 weeks.; 8. It is the day that Levi Strauss was granted he patent for copper-riveted work wear.; 9. they reinforced the stress points of the pants, causing them to be sturdier than other work wear on the market.; 10. in the 1960s.; 11. they became the signifier of the rebellious teens; 12. acid wash, baggy, ripped jeans and skinny jeans; 13. Rihanna wears denim really well and in unexpected ways. Kim Kardashian always rocks jeans pretty well.; 14. Because it is a very hardy fabric and wears out really slowly and looks better as it ages.