Джинсы

Jeans questionnaire.
Do you wear jeans?
How often do you wear them?
Where do you wear jeans?
What jeans do you prefer (usually buy)?
Do you know why jeans are called so?
How old are jeans?
Where were they born?
What do you think why are jeans so popular?

The results of the opinion poll.
Do you wear jeans?
Everybody does 100%.
How often do you wear them?
Every day 60%, almost every day 32%, not often 8%
Where do you wear jeans?
Everywhere 64%.
What jeans do you prefer?
20% could name their jeans brand.
How old are jeans?
Nobody knows for sure.
3 years old 7%, 56 years old 7%, ~ 100 years old 8%.
Why are jeans called so?
Nobody knows for sure.
After the name of their inventor 40%.
Made from jeans cloth 16%.

Date of birth ~ 1567
Place of birth - Genoa, Italy
Date of modern jeans’ birth ~ 1853
Place of modern jeans’ birth –
San Francisco, California, USA
Jeans factfile
Inventor of modern jeans –
Levi Strauss
The first trousers were
b r o w n

Later coloured
dark – blue
(indigo)

Indigo
– after India,
where the dye
was brought from

Jeans cloth = “ denim “
“ denim “ = from Nim
Nim = a French city where it was made