[quote=WASA;6021398]   And I believe blue jeans were invented by a Jew, I'll look that up.   No, you're thinking about the American Jew, Levi Strauss, founder of the famous Levi's jeans company. He didn't invent blue jeans, they had been invented in northern Italy long before he came around. He was just the first to start mass producing them.      Okay, maybe not. From what I'm reading blue jeans were invented by cowboys...  In Spain they are known as vaqueros or cowboys, in Danish cowboybukser meaning cowboy pants and in Chinese niuzaiku (SC: 牛仔裤), literally, cowboy pants (trousers), indicating their association with the American West, cowboy culture, and outdoors work. Similarly, the Hungarian name for jeans is farmernadrág, meaning farmer-trousers.[/   Interesting, I always heard they were invented in northern Italy by sailors and the name Jeans has something to do with the city of Genoa. This is what the wikipedia has to say about it and it jibes with what I remember hearing......     Jeans fabric was made in  Chieri , a town near  Turin  ( Italy ), in the 1600s. It was sold through the harbour of  Genoa , which was the capital of an independent  republic , and a naval power.  The first were made for the Genoese Navy  because it required all-purpose pants for its sailors that could be worn wet or dry, and whose legs could easily be rolled up to wear while swabbing the deck. These jeans would be laundered by dragging them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the sea water would bleach them white. According to many people  the jeans name comes from bleu de Gênes, i.e., blue of Genoa [ citation needed ]. The raw material originally came from the city of  Nîmes  ( France ) Serge de Nîmes i.e.  denim .    Well, jeans are the invention of White Europeans either way you want to look at it I guess.