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A pair of jeans Microscopic image of faded fabric. 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.
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]
This design is on all Levi's jeans today. In December 1870, Davis was asked by a customer to make a pair of strong working pants for her husband who was a woodcutter. [7] To create suitably robust pants for working, he used duck cloth and reinforced the weak points in the seams and pockets with the copper rivets.
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.
By the 1970s, denim jeans were such an integral part of youth culture [9] that automobile manufactures, beginning with American Motors Corporation began offering denim-like interior finishes. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] (Because denim cannot pass fire resistance safety standards, [ 12 ] indigo-colored spun nylon or vinyl was used, [ 13 ] with contrast ...
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According to Levi's, one pair of jeans — from the cotton field to the department store — consumes more than 900 gallons of water during its lifetime. But the water waste doesn't stop when that ...
Wrangler Jeans were first made by the Blue Bell Overall Company, which had acquired the brand when it took over Casey Jones in the mid-1940s. Blue Bell employed Bernard Lichtenstein ("Rodeo Ben" [ 1 ] ), a Jewish [ 2 ] tailor from Łódź who worked closely with cowboys , to help design jeans suitable for rodeo use. [ 3 ]