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Do you know what a jumpsuit ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, why ____ they called sneakers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whether ____ 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 cotton ____

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

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

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

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

The cloth was most ____ colored blue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now men’s formal wear is ____ tuxedo.

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

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

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

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

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

____ Japanese call them zories.

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

However, in the USA, these shoes are called ____

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

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

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

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

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