Blue Jean Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers
What are blue jeans?
A: Jeans are a type of pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth.
Originally designed for miners, modern jeans were
popularized as casual wear by Marlon Brando and James Dean in their what?
A: Their 1950s films, particularly The Wild One and Rebel Without a Cause.
This led to the fabric becoming a symbol of what among
teenagers?
A: Rebellion, especially members of the greaser subculture.
From the 1960s onwards, jeans became common among
various youth subcultures and subsequently whom?
A: Young members of the general population.
Nowadays, they are one of the most popular types of
specialty trousers in what?
A: Western culture.
Three historic brands include what?
A: Levi's, Lee, and Wrangler.
Research on the trade of jean fabric shows that it
emerged in what cities?
A: Genoa, Italy, and Nîmes, France.
Gênes, the French word for Genoa, may be the origin of
what word?
A: The word "jeans".
In Nîmes, weavers tried to reproduce jean fabric but
instead developed a similar twill fabric that became known as what?
A: Denim, "de Nîmes" , meaning "from Nîmes".
Genoa's jean fabric was a fustian textile very similar
to what?
A: Cotton corduroy for which Genoa was famous and was "used for work clothes
in general".
The Genoese navy equipped its sailors with jeans, as
they needed a fabric which could be worn how?
A: Wet or dry.
Nîmes's "denim" was coarser, considered higher quality,
and was used for what?
A: For over garments such as smocks or overalls.
Copper rivets for reinforcing pockets are what?
A: A characteristic feature of blue jeans.
By the 17th century, jean was a crucial textile for
working-class people where?
A: In Northern Italy.
Levi Strauss, as a young man in 1851, went from
Germany
to New York to do what?
A: To join his older brothers who ran a goods store.
Where did he move to in 1853?
A: He moved to San Francisco to open his own dry goods business.
Jacob Davis was a tailor who often bought bolts of
cloth from whom?
A: The Levi Strauss & Co. wholesale house.
In 1872, Davis wrote to Strauss asking to partner with
him to do what?
A: To patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets.
The copper rivets were to reinforce the points of
stress, such as what?
A: Pocket corners and at the bottom of the button fly.
Strauss accepted Davis's offer, and the two men
received US patent No. 139,121 for what?
A: An "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings" on May 20, 1873.
Davis and Strauss experimented with different fabrics
and ended up using what fabric for their new pants?
A: Denim.
Initially, Strauss's jeans were simply sturdy trousers
worn by whom?
A: Factory workers, miners, farmers, and cattlemen throughout the North
American West.
During this period, men's jeans had the fly down the
front, whereas women's jeans had the fly where?
A: Down the left side.