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31st May 2016
07:18pm BST
According to Hello Giggles, in France, the world serge is used to describe the material that jeans are made from and so people began to refer to jeans as "serge de Nimes". Serge de Nimes was a little bit long for everyday use and so, people began to refer the material as denim. The story goes that sailors from Genoa were so obsessed with denim that they bought LOTS of it and so they began associated with it. So, there you have it, that's how we came to refer to jeans as jeans.
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