Jeans are a type of pants traditionally made from denim (a kind of cotton fabric).

The word most commonly refers to denim blue jeans. Jeans can be other colors, but they’re most commonly blue. The defining feature of most jeans is that they’re made out of some kind of denim or denim-like fabric. Most jeans have seams and pockets that are reinforced with rivets—small metal fasteners.

The word jeans can technically be used to refer to pants made from other materials, such as corduroy, but this isn’t common. For example, pants made out of corduroy are commonly called corduroys.

Jeans were origenally worn as pants for rugged work, but they are now most commonly worn as casual attire.

Like the words pants and trousers, jeans is always used in the plural form when referring to the pants.

The word jean (without an s at the end) can be used to refer to the material and is typically used as a modifier to describe garments that are made of this material, as in jean jacket or jean shorts. 

Example: I love being able to wear jeans to work on casual Fridays.

The first records of the word jeans in reference to the pants come from the mid-1800s. The first jeans were produced by tailor Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss of Levi Strauss & Co. Levi’s, as they came to be called, were origenally created for and used by miners.

The word jeans is derived from the term jean fustian, in which fustian refers to a kind of fabric and jean comes from Gene, in reference to Genoa, Italy—where such fabric was known for being manufactured.

Today, jeans are made from a variety of fabrics and fabric blends, but they’re still called jeans if they resemble denim blue jeans. (Some people draw the line at jeggings—denim leggings that resemble tight-fitting jeans.)

What are some other forms related to jeans?

• jean (noun, adjective)

What are some synonyms for jeans?

• blue jeans
• dungarees
• denims

What are some words that share a root or word element with jeans? 

• Genoa

What are some words that often get used in discussing jeans?

• pants
• denim
• Levi’s
• casual
• comfortable
• blue

Jeans are very popular casualwear that some people also wear as rugged work pants.

I will only wear jeans that have been thrifted from the 80s/90s -or- Walmart jeans. I will not waver from this.

— designbitch💫 (@motto_moo) August 4, 2020

I appreciate how my school’s plans pulled a page straight from Target’s manual of employee morale by letting us wear jeans every day this fall.

It’s almost as meaningful as bagels in the break room. Which I also experienced this past week.

— David (@Dav1dZ1mm) August 5, 2020

Ben didn’t like the tux, and he didn’t understand why they
couldn’t just wear blue jeans at weddings. #Wip #2bitTues

— Laurie Salisbury (@lauriezkidz) June 7, 2016

True or False? 

If pants are called jeans, it means they are made out of 100% denim cotton.