May 20, 1873 marked an historic day: the birth of the blue jean. It was on that day that Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis started making jeans for factory workers and gold miners.
Jacob Davis, one of the tailors who worked for Levi. One day the wife of a local laborer asked Jacob to make a pair of pants for her husband that wouldn’t fall apart
Jacob Davis found himself repairing torn clothes and came up with a solution, “Copper Rivets”
