Jeans

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Willi Schmidheiny/Laura Villiger, SF mySchool

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What was the first name of the jeans inventor?
1. Lee
2. Levi
3. Marco
4. Tom
Blue jeans were invented in the Californian city of San ... .
1. Jose
2. Antonio
3. Diego
4. Francisco
The original jeans were not blue but ... .
1. brown
2. black
3. white
4. grey
For whom did Levi Strauss manufacture working clothes?
1. Sailors and whalers
2. Cowboys, mineworkers and gold diggers
3. Cowboys and cowgirls
4. Actors in westerns
Which plant is the dye for jeans extracted from?
1. Ginger
2. Indigo
3. Blueberries
4. The common blue
What cultivation method is largely used today to grow cotton?
1. Monoculture
2. Stereo system
3. Organic farming
How are jeans treated to make them look worn?
1. With granite
2. With pumice
Why are hardly any jeans manufactured in Switzerland?
1. Cost is too high.
2. There is no cotton in Switzerland.
3. Too little know-how in matters of fashion.
4. Not enough demand.
There are various labels for organically farmed cotton. Which, for example?
1. M-Budget
2. Naturaline
3. Fairtrade
4. Knospe