Originally Posted by
McElmurry
From the most reliable wikipedia
The word "jeans" comes from the French phrase bleu de Gźnes, literally the blue of Genoa. Jeans fabric, or denim, originated independently in two places:
The French town of Nīmes, from which 'denim' (de Nīmes) gets its name.
From Dongari Killa in India, from which the word 'dungarees' came.[1] See Etymology of "dungaree"
So it appears blue jeans did not originate in the Americas.
The story I heard was that Levi Strauss ended up with a surplus of the darned stuff and made pants with rivets for miners, not to mention his name and his fortune. And that happened in the U.S.A.
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