Day 33 - Denim

I love jeans and I was wondering where the word came from:

In the 1850s, when Levi Strauss ran out of tent canvas for the pants he was selling to California gold miners, he imported a tough material from Nimes in France called "serge de Nim".

Americanized, "de Nim" became "denim."

The word "jeans" comes from the French phrase "bleu de Gênes", which literally means "the blue of Genoa".

So, now I know...