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2. Levi Strauss - Wikipedia

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   Levi Strauss (/ ˈliːvaɪ ˈstraʊs / LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. [1][2]

3. Levi Strauss & Co. - Wikipedia

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   Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [9] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.

4. Jeans - Wikipedia

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   Jeans. Jeans are a type of trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans", with the addition of copper pocket rivets added by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 [1] and patented by Davis and Levi Strauss on May 20, 1873. Prior to the patent, the term "blue jeans" had been ...

5. The hidden (and not-so-hidden) meanings of 12 brands ... - AOL

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   in the 1870s, when Levi Strauss invented his famous blue jeans, they were known simply as "XX." Two decades later, they were given the lot number "501®" and to this day, that three-digit number ...

6. Levi’s CFO on the Western fashion trend and the brand’s ...

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   Levi Strauss was founded in 1853 and introduced the riveted 501 jeans. Singh, CFO at the company since 2013, knows the ins and outs of Levi’s products and operations as it’s a big part of his job.

7. Jacob W. Davis - Wikipedia

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   Jacob William Davis (born Jākobs Jufess; Russian: Якоб Яковлевич Юфес, May 14, 1831 – January 20, 1908) was a Russian-American tailor of Latvian Jewish origin [1] who is credited with inventing modern jeans. [2] Growing up in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States as a young man and spent some time in Canada ...