The history of jeans fabric goes back to the 16th century in Europe.
(A) The story goes that the word jeans comes from the word Genoa, which refers to the materials sailors from Genoa used in their pants.
(B) Jeans fabric that Genoese sailors used was made from a mixture of cotton, wool, and linen before it evolved into 100 % cotton by the 18th century.
(C) Jeans became popular in the 1930s after Hollywood made lots of western movies featuring cowboys who often wore jeans.
(D) No one would have thought back in Genoa then that the material worn by sailors in Genoa would fuel today’s multi-million dollar denim industry.