EigoPro 準2級プラス 読解 — From Work Pants to Worldwide Fashion

From Work Pants to Worldwide Fashion Jeans are perhaps the most popular clothing in the world. People of every age, country, and background wear them. Yet jeans were not originally created as fashion. They began as tough work clothes for some of the hardest jobs of the nineteenth century. A Practical Beginning In the 1870s, in the western United States, miners and farmers needed trousers that would not tear easily. A businessman and a tailor came up with a clever solution: trousers made from strong cotton cloth, with small metal pieces added at the points that usually ripped first. These tough trousers quickly became popular among workers who needed clothes that could survive hard labor. Becoming Cool For many years, jeans remained simply work clothes. This began to change in the middle of the twentieth century, when famous actors started wearing them in films. Suddenly, jeans were seen not as the clothes of workers, but as a symbol of youth and freedom. Young people everywhere wanted to wear what their heroes wore. A Global Symbol Today, jeans are worn almost everywhere on Earth. They have become a symbol that crosses borders and cultures. Part of their appeal is that they suit almost anyone, and they can look casual or smart depending on how they are worn. Few other items of clothing have traveled so far from their origins. More Than Fashion The story of jeans shows how something created for one simple purpose can grow into something much larger. As one fashion historian noted, "Jeans were invented to survive hard work. In the end, it was their honesty and toughness that made them beautiful."

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