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Fascinating facts about Levi Strauss co-inventor of Blue Jeans in 1873. ... Levi Strauss, the inventor of the quintessential American garment - the blue jean - was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria on February 26, 1829 to Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss.
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Levi Strauss had the canvas made into waist overalls. Miners liked the pants, but complained that they tended to chafe. Levi Strauss substituted a twilled cotton cloth from France called "serge de Nimes." The fabric later became known as denim and the pants were nicknamed blue jeans.
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Browse for a different Invention or Inventor ... Levi Strauss (1829-1902) ... No item of clothing is more quintessentially American than the blue jeans invented and perfected in the mid-19th century by Levi Strauss.
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One product of those heady times has become an enduring part of American popular culture: Levi’s jeans. The durable denim pants were brought to market by Levi Strauss, a Jewish dry ... While Strauss was not the "inventor" of the garment known worldwide today as "Levi’s," he was surely responsible for its success.
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Levi Strauss was a dry goods merchant, who came to San Francisco in 1853 at the age of twenty-four to open a west coast branch of his brothers' dry goods business. He had spent a number of years learning the trade in New York after emigrating there from his native Germany.
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Inventor's name: Levi Strauss ... Invention: Levi Strauss invented and marketed the blue jeans. He trained as a tailor in Buttenheim, Germany. Strauss went to San Francisco, USA from New York in 1853. Strauss sold dry goods, including tents and linens to the 49ers (the people who came to the California gold rush,
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Levi Strauss, the inventor of what many consider to be the typical American garment, the blue jean, was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany on February 26, 1829 to Hirsch Strauss and his second wife Rebecca Haas Strauss.
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