HE WENT THERE TO SELL THINGS TO THE MINERS. HE SAW THAT THE MINE...

1850. He went there to sell things to the miners. He saw that the miners neededstrong pants, so he began to make them. He used cloth that people made tentsfrom. He put rivets on the pockets to make them strong because the men putrocks in their pockets. These pants were very strong and lasted a long time. Thepants became very popular immediately. Later Mr. Strauss started making Jeansfrom cotton cloth from Nimes, France. People called this cloth denim. Denimwas popular in the fifteenth century. Christopher Columbus used denim for thesails of his ship. Sailors in Genoa, Italy, wore denim pants. The word “Jeans”comes from the words “Genoa”. Mr. Strauss made the first Jeans in the UnitedStates, but the idea and the kind of cloth came from Europe. The name came fromFrance and Italy. Jeans were always blue until presently. People used indigo(thuốc nhộm màu chàm) to dye (nhuộm) them. Indigo is the oldest dye in theworld. Most Jeans have blue threads going across and white threads going up anddown. These two colors make denim look different from other kinds of cloth. 26 The word denim comes from the name of a city in _______________. A. France B. India C. Italy D. Germany