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ThePowerOfFuet on Aug 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Italy's pizza detectives

>Sort of reminds me of how Japan has mastered high end denim despite it being a very American product.

Denim is a contraction of "serge de Nîmes". It is French in origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim

https://www.insidefashiondesign.com/post/how-denim-was-inven...

harimau777 on Aug 8, 2025 | [–]

Interesting! I didn't know that and I'm fairly into fashion! Thanks for teaching me something new!

I guess I was more thinking of how blue jeans (and maybe denim jackets?) specifically are a classic part of Americana.

thefz on Aug 8, 2025 | [–]

Mastered by Levi Strauss, who was Bavarian.

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