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You Know ?
Jeans were first
created in Genoa, Italy when the city was an independent
Republic and a naval power The first jeans were made
for the Genoese Navy because it required all-purpose
trousers for its sailors that could be worn wet or dry, and
whose legs could easily be rolled up to wear while swabbing
the deck These jeans would be laundered by dragging
them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the sea water
would bleach them white The first denim came from (French:de)
Nīmes, France, hence
de Nimes, the name of the fabric The French word for these trousers
was anchored around their word for Genoa The French
bleu de Gźnes, from the Italian blu di genova,
literally the "blue of Genoa" dye of their fabric, is the
root of the names for these pants, "jeans" and "blue jeans",
today
Jeans were developed in
America around 1872 Levi Strauss was a Bavarian dry goods merchant living in San
Francisco One of Levi's customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently
purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co wholesale house After
one of Jacob's customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn trousers, he
had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on
the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly Jacobs did not have
the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Levi suggesting that
they both go into business together. After Strauss accepted Davis's offer, on
May 20, 1873, the two men received patent #139,121, a patent for an "Improvement
in Fastening Pocket-Openings", from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, and the blue jean was born
Source:
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