When jeans were invented

He intended to sell this canvas for use as tents and wagon covers. But the gold miners told him, �We don�t need tents! We need pants, pants that �(make) of a strong material.�

So instead of tents, pants were soon made from the canvas. The miners liked the pants, but complained that they were too rough on the skin. Then a softer kind of cloth �(substitute). This cotton cloth �(import) from France, and it �(call)�serge de Nimes. (Nimes is a city in France.) The fabric later became known as denim -- pronounced �de NEEM,� and meaning from Nimes.

The original color of the pants was brown, but indigo dye was being developed at this time, and the brown color �soon ��(replace) with the now-familiar deep blue. These denim pants were nicknamed blue jeans.

Although jeans �originally �(design)�for heavy physical labor, the image of jeans changed dramatically in the 1950s. In those years, many western movies were being made with glamorous stars like John Wayne and Gary Cooper as cowboys wearing jeans. Jeans acquired a glamorous image, too. Over the next decades, jeans were being worn everywhere, and were even featured in the fashion shows of the designers in Paris.