Ever wondered how denims got their name? Or how jeans started being called as jeans? No! This post will help you to know how some of the most popular clothing and fabrics items got their names.
It actually turns out that many common clothing items and materials actually got their name from their place of origin. Let’s take a look.
Denim
One of the most popular clothing fabrics, introduced in the 19th century, that is still going strong, is denim. Denim is however, pretty straightforward about its origins. This hard-wearing cotton twill fabric, usually manufactured in blue color and used for making jeans and shirts, got its name from Nîmes, France, or ‘de Nîmes’. More precisely, denim was known as ‘serge de Nîmes’, where serge refers to a twilled woolen or worsted fabric that is highly durable in nature.
Jeans
Just like denim, the word jean has been around for a very long time. Even today, jeans are one of the most commonly worn clothing items among all ages and it seems it will remain so, for many years to come. However, this clothing word first made its appearance as an adjective in the late 15th century. The word originated from the Latin Janua ‘Genoa’, Italy, where the cloth was first knitted. Even with their different origins, denim and jean are nowadays often referred to as similar type of cloth.
Tweed
Tweed is a rough-surfaced woolen cloth, typically a mix of flecked colors; but it is not an original word. It is believed that the term tweed emerged due to an accidental misreading of the word “tweel,” a Scots form of twill, or from the misunderstanding of an abbreviated word tweeled. However, the term got adopted probably because of its similarity with the River Tweed in the United Kingdom.
Muslin
Muslin is a very lightweight cotton cloth with plain weave. The word comes from the Italian word mussolina, which itself originates from Mussolo, or Mosul, a city in Iraq where this type of cloth was first weaved.
In The End
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