On May 20, 1873, businessman Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis were granted a patent to create work pants with metal buttons, marking the birth of one of the world's most famous garments: blue jeans. Levi Strauss established a business in San Francisco that imported clothing, textiles, and other goods and resold them to small stores that were then opening throughout California to supply the rapidly growing needs of the gold miners and other workers who lived there. By 1866 he had succeeded in becoming an important businessman in San Francisco. One of his regular customers, Nevada tailor Jacob Davis wrote him a letter in 1872 about his method of making work pants with metal riveted buttons at the seam points of the pockets and other parts of the pants to make them more durable. As Davis did not have the money for the necessary documents, he suggested that Strauss invest […]
Source: News Beast
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