The best answer to this question is how the American HP fandom somehow got it in their heads that British people don't say "jeans" and in the UK they're called "denims"https://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1295530510857502720 …
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There's really not that much to the story Apparently some fanfic writer made the idiosyncratic choice to refer to Harry, Ron and Hermione in Muggle street clothes as wearing "denims", and a ton of fanfic enthusiasts assumed this was a Britishism
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And this misconception just chugged merrily along with American fanfic writers carefully describing Harry's street clothes as "denims" in the year after Goblet of Fire came out
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