Why it's called Denim

[macmxbmw]

Many of you probably know this, but for those of you that don't here goes:

When Levi Strauss in the middle of the 19th century started to design jeans, he had actually come across the speciel jean fabric in Nîmes (France), so the fabric "came from Nîmes", or "de Nîmes" in French, thus the name Denim.

Fashion history right there.

Edited by macmxbmw on Dec 8, 2004 at 04:26 AM

[gsep]

useless yet entirely necessary information....good work...some quality dinner party anecdotes...thanx!

[macmxbmw]

No problem. I think things like that are quite interesting actually...