Okay, is it a "Jeans Jacket" or a "Jean Jacket?"

For as long as I can remember (even though my mother forbade us to wear one as they were what “Hoods” wore) I have called the above garment, a jeans jacket.

     I work with people who are considerably younger than me, and they all call it a “jean jacket.” I was flabbergasted! What? How could that be? Was it a generational (or more than one generation) shift in vocabulary?

      I swear, everyone I knew in the 1970s and 80s called them jeans jackets. As in, “Just a minute, it’s a little chilly out. Let me get my jeans jacket since my sweatshirt no longer has a neckline as I cut it after I saw “Flashdance.”

     The jacket is made from jeans material so it must be a jeans jacket, yes? Well, unless you call jeans, dungarees, in which case you would be going to get your dungarees jacket.

        Isn’t that an odd word…dungarees? Dung as in poop? I mean, you got your Dung Beetle, right, so the obvious jump is Poop Pants.

     I digress. So, what is it? What do you call the item worn as a jacket made of jeans material? You have to tell me, please! Jean, or Jeans, what is it?

Oh, just in case you were worried about me wearing one (as I do on a regular basis) I never became a “Hood” (short for Hoodlum) contrary to my mother’s concern and conclusion.

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