Cedric schreef:"Research on the trade of jean fabric shows that it emerged in the cities of Genoa, Italy, and Nîmes, France. Gênes, the French word for Genoa, may be the origin of the word "jeans". In Nîmes, weavers tried to reproduce jean fabric but instead developed a similar twill fabric that became known as denim, from de Nîmes, meaning "from Nîmes". Genoa's jean fabric was a fustian textile of "medium quality and of reasonable cost", very similar to cotton corduroy for which Genoa was famous, and was "used for work clothes in general". (...) The term jeans appears first in 1795, when a Swiss banker by the name Jean-Gabriel Eynard and his brother Jacques went to Genoa and both were soon heading a flourishing commercial concern. In 1800 Massena's troops entered the town and Jean-Gabriel was entrusted with their supply. In particular he furnished them with uniforms cut from blue cloth called "bleu de Genes" whence later derives the famous garment known worldwide as "blue jeans"."Ik denk dat er een verschil zit tussen de stof (denim) en de broek (met spijkers), allez, ik ben niet zeker, maar heb altijd gedacht dat de broek als eerste door Levi Strauss werd gemaakt.
Vandaar dat ik Nieuwe Tijd zei dus, en niet Nieuwste Tijd.
In elk geval is het inderdaad een opdracht die gedoemd was om te mislukken .