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Levi Strauss Jeans

In the late 1800s, San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis began manufacturing worker’s trousers reinforced by copper rivets—the world’s first jeans. The jeans in this photo are one ...
WUSA

If Levi Strauss didn't invent jeans, who did?

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- What do you know about your jeans? Do you know the name most commonly associated with jeans, Levi Strauss, didn’t invent them? This week in history we find out how jeans were made ...
Los Angeles Times

Gold Rush-era jeans billed as world’s oldest sell for $114,000. But were they Levi’s?

RENO, Nev. — Pulled from a sunken trunk at an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, work pants that auction officials describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for ...