On This Day in History in 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno Nevada tailor Jacob Davis receive a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets on the stress points – at the corners of the pockets and the base of the button fly – to make them stronger. This marked the birth of one of the world’s most famous garments: blue jeans. Read the full story here. Below, bonus pictorial content. Yer welcome.
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