英语学习点: Vocabulary: popular trends 潮流与时尚
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Jeans are now popular around the world
It's difficult to find a garment as widely embraced, worn and loved as jeans. The denim trousers are a staple of wardrobes around the world. But why?
Anthropologist Danny Miller has just written a book on the subject. He says that in every country he's visited, almost half the population wore jeans.
They were designed as work-wear for labourers in America's Western states in the late 19th Century. When a Nevada tailor called Jacob Davis was asked to make a pair of sturdy trousers for a local woodcutter, he had the idea of reinforcing them with rivets. They proved extremely durable and were soon in high demand.
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