Levi Strauss emigrated to the US from Germany ... The original US patent for riveted jeans, from 1873 Mr Bergh admits the clear out was dramatic, sometimes traumatic, but says: "You always have ...

Levi Strauss made the first pair of blue jeans in San Francisco in 1873, 16 years after the shipwreck that contained the miner's pants. But the company's historian and archive director Tracey ...

Levi Strauss & Co. will rejoin the stock market ... The company claims to have created the first pair of blue jeans in 1873. Its products are now sold in more than 50,000 retail locations across ...