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Answer1853.

Levi Strauss invented the blue jean in 1853 during the gold rush in San Francisco. It wasn't until 1873 when Levi and Jacob Davis started the company Levi Strauss & Company. It wasn't until May 20, 1873 that he received a patent for his jeans, which is known as the official birthday of the blue jean.

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1873.

In 1873, Levi Strauss & Company began using the pocket stitch design. Levi Strauss and a Reno Nevada-based Latvian tailor by the name of Jacob Davis co-patented the process of putting rivets in pants for strength. On May 20, 1873, they received

U.S.Patent No.139,121. This date is now considered the official birthday of "blue jeans.


He was at the gold camps during the CA gold rush in the 1850's and saw that the miners were having a hard time with the seams in the pants they were wearing because of the dirt and water they were using to find gold, so he made a pair of pants using brads at the seams. The miners loved them and bought them. The rest is history. By-the-way in the 1490's sailors were all ready wearing a denim type material as the material for their clothing on ship because it wore well.
He saw a need for pants that would stand up to the hard work in the gold fields and had a large supply of sail canvas.

Possibly on May 20, 1873 which was when Strauss and his business helper received United States patent for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants.
Levi Strauss made jeans in the year 1853
Levi Strauss first introduced jeans in 1873, twenty years after the company was first founded.
when the ancient Egyptian rebels decided they need something to wear so the their god of modern electronics, bibmoses, would visit. that's one theory

In 1873 by Levi Strauss. The exact date was lost in the 1906 San Fransiscos' Earthquake and Fire. The papers got destroyed by this.

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