When & Who invented blue jeans?
No item of clothing is more American than the blue jeans invented in 1873 by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss. These two visionary immigrants, turned denim, thread and a little metal into the most popular clothing product in the world. Waist overalls, was the traditional name for work pants, which is what these first jeans were called. The word jeans became more popular around 1960 when the baby-boom generation adopted the term for its favorite type of pants, blue jeans.. Invention: blue jeans Definition: noun / waist overalls, jeans, Levi’s® jeans Function: Clothes, especially pants, that are usually close-fitting and created from the rugged cotton twill textile that is colored blue with indigo dye Patent: 139,121 (US) issued May 20, 1873 for Fastening Pocket-Openings Inventor: Jacob Davis (aka Jacob Youphes) Criteria: First to invent. First to patent. First practical. Birth: 1834 in Riga Latvia Death: 1908 in San Francisco, California Nationality: German Inventor: Levi Strauss (aka Loeb
