short story for intermediate-The Story of Blue Jeans..

Blue jeans are the most popular type of clothing in the world; but they are not modern! In fact, jeans have existed for over 140 years.

   In 1996, someone found some very old clothes in an old mine in Nevada, USA; they included a pair of dirty old jeans. Today, those jeans are very valuable, and they are now in the Levi Strauss Archival Collection, in San Francisco. The jeans, which are over 120 years old, are the oldest pair of Levi's 501 jeans in the world.
    They are almost the same as a modern pair of 501's; there are just some small differences in the detail. For instance, today's 501's have two back pockets, the old pair just has one.

THE STORY OF JEANS

 ....   Jeans were the classic clothes of the American West.