高中三年级英语(人教版)全一册 Unit 15 Integrating Skills

　　DENIM JEANS

　　It is the weekend! Time to have fun and relax, and time for young people to take off their school uniform and put on their favourite casual clothes. When teenagers have a free day, many of them like to wear a pair of denim jeans. Although the styles may change from year to year, jeans never go completely out of fashion. They are part of the lifestyle of many of today's youth.

　　The idea of blue trousers called jeans came from Europe, and the word "jeans" was first used to describe the blue clothes that sailors in Italy wore in the sixteenth century. However, the jeans of today are very much an American invention. They were created in the 1870s by a shopkeeper in San Francisco. His shop sold denim work. trousers to men employed in heavy labour. The workers liked them because they were cheap and strong. They were also comfortable, especially after they had been washed a few times. The shop was successful, but it was about sixty years before people started to buy jeans for fashion as well as for work.

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