Did You Know?

[moony3424]

Did you know that today is the day Blue Jeans were invented! Of course by Levi Strauss and in 1880. Let’s all go home after work and put on our Jeans.!!!! We can also go home and have a drink with those Jeans on as today is also the day that Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

Just something to brighten your Monday Morning.

[Cowgirl]

Moony, my most favorite pair of jeans in the whole world are an old faded blue pair of 501 Levi's !

Cowgirl

Edited December 5, 2005 by Cowgirl

[coolchef1248 @adelphia.net]

if i can't wear jeans to work i ain't going!!!!!!!!

but then again i don't have to work any more :P

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I have five pairs of jeans: one nice one for going out, one worn one for going to work (I work in a lab), one very worn one for working in the yard, and two pairs of shorts. This is Texas, after all! :)

George

[Belle]

I have about ten pair of jeans. I wear them almost every day.

Thank God for small companies and casual work environments! :P

[WordWolf]

If what I learned in cultural anthropology was correct back in college,

Levi Strauss was the guy with the company that sold the denim pants,

and Jacob Davis was the guy who patented the rivets on the pocket-corners.

The Davis story as I read it was:

Davis knew this miner (as in miner '49er) who was always

shoving his tools in his pockets and ripping them open.

So, he'd complain to Davis every time he came back to town,

and paid Davis to repair them.

Finally, Davis riveted them in sheer frustration.

When the guy came back NEXT TIME,

the pockets all survived.

Davis stopped laughing and took out a patent.

:)

As I understand it,

Levi Strauss had a catalog with a lot of items,

like the old Sears catalog (or the new one).

Item 501 was the pants.

So, they retained the name "501" all this time

out of continuity.

501's are the button-fly jeans.

I once read-from an unverified source-

that 501 was the number of rivets used on a

pair of the pants.

I never believed that because I know that

100 rivets on a pair of pants would make them

needlessly heavy and impractical,

and 501 of them would just be silly.

[dmiller]

Ha. I have ONE pair of pants that are not jeans!

Psst -- George, what are shorts?? This is Minnesota, after all! :lol:

[Brother Speed]

I have about ten pair of jeans. I wear them almost every day.

At the same time?!![/size=2]

:P

[dmiller]

Brother Speed

Joined: 15-August 05

From: Boise, Idaho

Brother Speed -- It's so good to see you left the Iraqis to post west of the Rockies!

I think I said it before, but if I didn't -- Welcome home. :dance:

David