>Blue jeans, as we know them today—the durable, riveted denim pants—were invented through a collaboration between Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss. Jacob Davis, a Latvian-born tailor in Reno, Nevada, came up with the key innovation: adding metal rivets to reinforce the pockets and stress points of work pants. This idea emerged around 1871 when a customer asked for stronger trousers. Davis used denim fabric purchased from Levi Strauss & Co., a San Francisco dry goods business run by Levi Strauss, a German-American immigrant.
We wuz German-Latvians.
>>Blue jeans, as we know them today—the durable, riveted denim pants—were invented through a collaboration between Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss. Jacob Davis, a Latvian-born tailor in Reno, Nevada, came up with the key innovation: adding metal rivets to reinforce the pockets and stress points of work pants. This idea emerged around 1871 when a customer asked for stronger trousers. Davis used denim fabric purchased from Levi Strauss & Co., a San Francisco dry goods business run by Levi Strauss, a German-American immigrant.
We wuz German-Latvians.