Levi Strauss partnered with a clothing maker named Jacob Davis, who had invented a process for making rivets for jeans.

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In the nineteen fifties, people saw famous Hollywood actors like James Dean and Marlon Brando wearing jeans in movies.

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The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington,D.C., has one of the oldest known pairs of Levi's jeans in its collection.

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He did not invent jeans. But he is considered the first person to manufacture and sell this kind of clothing in large amounts.

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Jeans have come to express different ideas about American culture based on the people who wear them.

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In the book,he says jeans serve as a sign for two American values, creativity and rebellion.

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But now,Mommy wears my jeans, adorned with glitter belts and shirts that say hottie and sexy.

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Writer James Sullivan published a book called "Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon."

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Jeans come in many colors other than blue and in many styles and prices.

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The history of blue jeans usually begins with a man named Levi Strauss.

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They were always too big for me, but I knew in my heart, that it was Mommy's jeans that help me be the best Mommy that I could be.

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Jeans are usually made from a heavy cotton cloth called denim.

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Jeans are pants made from a kind of cloth called denim.

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Today,jeans are worn by people of all ages, incomes and lifestyles.

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And answer a question about the history of blue jeans .

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Alex Shestakov wants to know the history of blue jeans.

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Shoulders stooped, broad back Bent with weighted expectations from Umi,Khaltu,Fatima and Baba Eagerly awaiting your return, the Conquering hero With Big Macs And blue jeans For all They tricked us.

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For many people, blue jeans represent American culture.

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Fashion designers even create very costly jeans.

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Among the products he sold were jeans.

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"We have found out that most of our cotton here in eastern North Carolina goes to make jeans,"

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Like the competitors, they usually have on broad-brimmed hats, boots and blue jeans.

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They say when people learn that the prostitute in a brothel may be an unwilling victim of sexual exploitation or the cheap jeans they buy in a store are produced by people working some of these forms of contemporary slavery may dry up.

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