Excellent, SR, but next time, please don't take so long in answering. -------- Blue jeans story: or how `waist overalls' for gold diggers, gun slingers and rebels without a cause got smart, clothed the American Dream and conquered the world New Internationalist, June, 1998
In 1872 Levi Strauss received a letter from Jacob Davis, who had been making riveted clothing for miners in the Reno area. Davis had no money to file for a patent and offered Levi Strauss a deal if he would pay for the patent. Levi Strauss began to make copper-riveted `waist overalls' (as jeans were then known). In 1886 Levi's `Two Horse Brand' leather patch, showing the garment pulled between two horses to prove its strength, was first used. By 1890 lot-numbers were being used for Levi products: 501 was assigned to copper-riveted overalls. In 1902 two back pockets were added. - Find Articles
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