enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Jacob W. Davis - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_W._Davis

   Strauss agreed, and on May 20, 1873, US Patent No. 139,121 for "Improvements in fastening pocket openings" was issued in the name of Jacob W. Davis and Levi Strauss and Company. [8] That same year, Davis started sewing a double orange threaded stitched design onto the back pocket of the jeans to distinguish them from those made by his ...

3. Levi Strauss & Co. - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss_&_Co.

   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. Jean jacket - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_jacket

   Also known as "the trucker jacket", design elements of the Type III include a tapered style, welt hand pockets, and bar tacks which hold down chest pocket and sleeve openings. [3] In 2014, Google collaborated with Levi Strauss & Co. to develop a "connected" denim jacket described by Wired as the "denim jacket of the future". [6]

5. What's the point of that tiny front pocket on your jeans? - AOL

   www.aol.com/news/2016-01-28-whats-the-point-of...

   Levis Strauss and Co. debunks the mystery of why jeans have that small front pocket -- and the answer comes from the 1800s. ... Denim maker Levi Strauss confirmed it in a blog post. It said the ...

6. Levi Strauss - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss

   Levi Strauss (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / 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]

7. David Stern (businessman) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stern_(businessman)

   David Stern was born to a Jewish family in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1820. [1] In the 1840s, he immigrated to the United States first to New York then the American South and finally to San Francisco in 1853 or 1855 where he was later joined by his brother-in-law Levi Strauss. [1]