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Do you know ____ a jumpsuit is?

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

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

As the ____ indicates, 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 have probably owned a pair of sneakers for everyday ____ or sports.

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

So, ____ are they called sneakers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The cloth was most likely ____ blue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now ____ formal wear is the tuxedo.

Isn’t it ironic that the tuxedo was not originally considered very formal, but now it is the most ____ 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 one of the ____ shoes in history.

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

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

The Japanese call ____ zories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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