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Never Forget to Say Thank You
As children we were taught it was a common courtesy to send thank you letters. Remember the chore of having to sit down after a birthday or Christmas and thank grandparents, aunties and uncles for your presents?
As adults, we often forget the...
Quotes and Sayings - Colloquialisms
ku'lowkeweeu'lizum [n] a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech, an expression, a local or regional dialect expression. I always remember my grandparents using such...
The Martha Complex - The problem with being a 1950's mom
"It's a good thing" is a mouthful for a new generation of working mothers Poor Martha. For five long months she will be forced to leave all her “good things” behind as she serves her sentence in federal prison for obstruction of justice. While...
Wearing birkenstocks is like wearing no other pair of shoes!
Wearing birkenstock shoes is like wearing no other pair of shoes. Johann Adam Birkenstock was a shoemaker in Germany in the late 1700’s. The birkenstock shoe was designed with an understanding that a person’s shoes should reflect the shape of...
Why Classic Styles Offer The Best Clothing Value
“I want to look good without spending a lot of money. What's the best way to use my clothing budget?” This question - or variations thereof - regularly hits my inbox from readers all over the world. While we may not all speak the same language,...
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Behind Your Levi 501 Jeans!
Behind your Levi 501 jeans is a lot more than just comfortable clothing that's both fashionable and durable. There's also a very interesting history about it. For one, do you know that Levi Strauss, after whom the jeans are named, didn't make the jeans at all? Levi Strauss was a dry goods merchant who became a very successful businessman. He was also a philanthropist. He had a regular customer, a tailor named Jacob Davis. Jacob had a client who kept ripping the pockets of the pants that Jacob made.
Jacob developed a method of strengthening this man's trousers by putting metal rivets at the points of strain. The idea was a great success, and Jacob wanted to patent it. However, he did not have the $68 needed to file for a patent, so he asked Levi to be his business partner. Levi, seeing the potential, agreed. They held the patent for 20 years until it expired in 1891, allowing everyone else to copy the process
of using metal rivets, which then became public domain. Another interesting story is the use of the word, "jeans." Denim pants have been used in the 1800s for work wear. "Waist overalls" was the name used for these work clothing.
The word, "jeans," started to be used around the 1960s when the generation then adopted the term for this type of pants. Why "501" for Levi jeans? It just so happened that at around 1890, the type of pants made from denim supplied by the Amoskeag Mill in Manchester, New Hampshire, which gave the jeans a strong reputation regarding durability, was given the number 501. The number stuck to this day, giving the meaning that the 501 jeans you wear assures you of durability.
About the author:
Mike Yeager
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http://www.my-jeans-4me.com/
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