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Okla-homey
5/20/2009, 05:49 AM
May 20, 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans

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136 years ago on this day in 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the world's most famous garments: blue jeans.

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Born Loeb Strauss in Buttenheim, Bavaria, in 1829, the young Strauss immigrated to New York with his family in 1847 after the death of his father.

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Strauss' birthplace in Buttenheim

By 1850, Loeb had changed his name to Levi and was working in the family dry goods business, J. Strauss Brother & Co. In early 1853, Levi Strauss went west to seek his fortune during the heady days of the Gold Rush.

In San Francisco, Strauss established a wholesale dry goods business under his own name and worked as the West Coast representative of his family's firm. His new business imported clothing, fabric and other dry goods to sell in the small stores opening all over California and other Western states to supply the rapidly expanding communities of gold miners and other settlers.

By 1866, Strauss had moved his company to expanded headquarters and was a well-known businessman and supporter of the Jewish community in San Francisco.

Jacob Davis, a tailor in Reno, Nevada, was one of Levi Strauss' regular customers. In 1872, he wrote a letter to Strauss about his method of making work pants with metal rivets on the stress points--at the corners of the pockets and the base of the button fly--to make them stronger. As Davis didn't have the money for the necessary paperwork, he suggested that Strauss provide the funds and that the two men get the patent together. Strauss agreed enthusiastically, and the patent for "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings"--the innovation that would produce blue jeans as we know them--was granted to both men on May 20, 1873. Strauss and Davis received United States patent #139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants.

Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the first of the famous Levi's brand of jeans in San Francisco, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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Strauss brought Davis to San Francisco to oversee the first manufacturing facility for "waist overalls," as the original jeans were known. At first they employed seamstresses working out of their homes, but by the 1880s, Strauss had opened his own factory.

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The famous 501 brand jean--known until 1890 as "XX"--was soon a bestseller, and the company grew quickly. By the 1920s, Levi's denim waist overalls were the top-selling men's work pant in the United States. As decades passed, the craze only grew, and now blue jeans are worn by men and women, young and old, around the world.

Oh, and BTW, if you're over 35, you probably recall those copper rivets on the back pockets of Levis. They took them off in the 70's and replaced those rivets with bar-tacking because the darn things tended to scratch surfaces like car paintwork and furniture.

TUSooner
5/20/2009, 07:30 AM
There's something just good and "American" about that story. :)

SoonerJack
5/20/2009, 08:20 AM
Shrink-to-fit 501s were my favorite jeans back in the day. Haven't had a pair in years. I wonder if they still feel the same.

C&CDean
5/20/2009, 08:31 AM
Shrink-to-fit 501s were my favorite jeans back in the day. Haven't had a pair in years. I wonder if they still feel the same.

Well I don't think your fat *** would fit in those 28s anymore, so no, they wouldn't feel the same.

King Crimson
5/20/2009, 09:01 AM
George Will is making a bad face at you.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502861.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR

NormanPride
5/20/2009, 09:07 AM
Wow. That article is... special. I think that guy got beaten as a kid with pairs of jeans.

King Crimson
5/20/2009, 09:27 AM
Wow. That article is... special. I think that guy got beaten as a kid with pairs of jeans.

it's interesting and is a lot more consistent with historical conservatism's disdain for "the public" (read: irrational masses) than what you see on this board. jus sayin.

NormanPride
5/20/2009, 10:12 AM
Historical conservatism as in Financial or Social conservatives?

BornandBred
5/20/2009, 10:56 AM
George Will is making a bad face at you.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502861.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR

This guy can kiss my denim covered ***.

King Crimson
5/20/2009, 11:01 AM
Historical conservatism as in Financial or Social conservatives?

well, both. part of this is the contradiction inherent in today's free market style conservatism. it acknowledges the primacy of a "liberal" economic market (which it opposed, historically) but at the same time seeks to maintain traditional values (family, church, existing social and economic class distinctions). Those values themselves often subverted or threatened by "new values" enabled by the free market itself. a perceived excess of violence and sex in media as a social danger or the symptom of social ill, for example, which is clearly market driven. nothing makes money like sex and violence.

olevetonahill
5/20/2009, 01:31 PM
Another reason fer removing those Metal brads on the Back side
those ****ers got Hot out in the sun and could burn yer tush:eek:

badger
5/20/2009, 02:26 PM
And now, the American-born jeans are made in Mexico. The end :D

TUSooner
5/20/2009, 02:27 PM
Dear George,
Demin is very comfortable and it's durable and it's easy to keep clean. I like wearing it; especially when I work outside, or when I'm going someplace where my nice pants might get messed up or torn, like a parade or a ball game or some other place where there's a crowd and maybe lots of drinking and eating and other stuff that normal people do. You don't wear demin because you probably haven't done one stinking minute of manual labor in your entire spoiled life, or even sat on the grass to eat at a picnic, you silly b*tch.
Also, I wear shorts a lot because it's 99 degrees with 99% humidity down here in the p!ss puddle swamp. Must I wear only genuine Bermuda shorts with a coat and tie and knee socks?

Your friend,
Kev :)
PS - Your bow ties suck. K.

(Actually, I like George Will, but he's way off the edge of the world on this deal.)

BornandBred
5/20/2009, 03:00 PM
Also, I wear shorts a lot because it's 99 degrees with 99% humidity down here in the p!ss puddle swamp.

You MUST be in Houston.

olevetonahill
5/20/2009, 03:54 PM
You MUST be in Houston.

Close
Nawlens ;)

King Crimson
5/20/2009, 05:57 PM
Must I wear only genuine Bermuda shorts with a coat and tie and knee socks?


and a pith helmet, a monocle for that extra colonial touch.

Pricetag
5/21/2009, 02:07 PM
Also, I wear jorts a lot
Fixed.