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Do you know what a ____ is?

It is usually a single item that covers your whole ____, even your arms and legs.

It is ____ and quick to put on and to take off.

As the name ____, the jumpsuit began as clothing for jumping from planes.

Later, designers transformed this functional design into luxurious women’s fashion items seen in fashion ____ around the world.

Like the jumpsuit, there are other fashion items with interesting stories ____ how they got their names.

You ____ probably owned a pair of sneakers for everyday activities or sports.

They are a ____ of athletic shoe designed specifically to be worn for physical activities and sports.

So, ____ are they called sneakers?

The ____ “sneakers” is derived from the term “to sneak up.”

Due to the fact that sneakers’ soles are mostly made of rubber, they ____ little noise when people walk.

This allows people who are wearing them to sneak up on ____.

Before rubber, ____ was used for the sole of shoes.

Traditional leather shoes make a lot of noise, and it is ____ to hear the person wearing them.

However, with sneakers, you can quietly sneak up on your ____ and surprise them.

Whether they are loose fit or slim fit, most of you ____ at least one pair of blue jeans.

They were named “jeans” because they were made of jean, a ____ of tough cotton cloth.

The word jean is a modification of Gênes, the French name of the Italian ____ of Genoa.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Genoa was a major center for ____.

Sailing merchants from Genoa traded their goods throughout Europe, particularly in ____ and France.

One of the items that made Genoa famous was a strong ____ cloth, ideally suited to making tough work clothes.

The ____ was most likely colored blue.

French was widely spoken in Europe at that time, so the cloth was called “bleu de Gênes” (the blue of ____).

This is how the pants made with “bleu de Gênes” ____ known as blue jeans in English.

People wear tuxedos when a formal dress ____ is required, like for the opera, dinner parties, or awards shows.

The tuxedo likely got its name ____ Tuxedo Park, one of the first gated communities in New York.

In the late 19th century, men usually wore jackets with long tails that reached their ____ on formal occasions.

One ____, a man showed up with a short black jacket without tails in Tuxedo Park.

The male guests who stayed there were fascinated by the new jacket and started to wear the same ____.

Later, more ____ asked their tailors to make them a jacket “like the one worn in Tuxedo Park.”

At first, this style of jacket was considered less ____ than one with long tails.

As more and ____ men wore the shorter style, it eventually replaced the longer version.

Now men’s formal ____ is the tuxedo.

Isn’t it ironic that the ____ was not originally considered very formal, but now it is the most formal clothing men wear?

On beaches and at pools, everyone seems to wear simple shoes with a band across the top of the ____ and between the big toe and second toe.

Amazingly, they are ____ of the oldest shoes in history.

Ancient Egyptian paintings ____ they were worn around 4,000 B.C.

Due to the fact that they have such a long ____, they have different names all around the world.

The Japanese call ____ zories.

New Zealanders call ____ jandals, which is a shortened form of “Japanese sandals.”

However, in the USA, these shoes are ____ “flip-flops.”

Just walk around in a pair of them, and ____ can easily guess why they got this name.

The rubber soles hit the ____ of your feet as you walk, making a flip-flop, flip-flop sound.

The ____ became the name of the shoes, flip-flops.

Whatever origins these fashion items have, they are being worn by more and more people in ____ places around the world.

Why don’t you look for ____ fashion items that have as interesting name origins as those introduced here?