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In 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and 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.

Born Loeb Strauss in Bavaria 1829, the young Strauss immigrated to New York with his family in 1847 after the death of his father. 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. His new business imported clothing, fabric and dry goods to small stores opening all over California to supply the rapidly expanding communities of gold miners. 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 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, he suggested that Strauss provide the funds so the two men lodge the patent. Strauss agreed and the patent for "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings" Their innovation  would produce blue jeans as we know them--was granted to both men on May 20, 1873.

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 opened his own factory. The famous 501 jeans "known until 1890 as "XX" was a bestseller. 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.
 

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