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Carving the Thanksgiving turkey with your newly sharpened carving knife, pruning the hedge with your pruning shears, or trimming your child's hair - it is quite likely you are wearing jeans.
Now you can click on the Amazon Denim Shop banner to the right, and shop for men's and women's jeans from designer brands to the long-time standard Levi's.
Amazingly, there are no shipping charges to have the jeans delivered, and no shipping charges if you want to return them!!
Jeans, Denims, Dungarees!
The word "jeans" comes from the French words bleu de Gênes, literally the blue of Genoa. The fabric from which jeans are made, denim, originated independently in two places: the French town of Nîmes, to which 'denim' owes its name; and in India, where trousers made of denim material were worn by the sailors of Dhunga, which came to be known as dungarees.
At around the same time, denim trousers were made near Turin in Italy during the Renaissance, and were popularized in the 16th century. Early examples of these trousers were made for the Genoese Navy, which required all-purpose pants for its sailors. They required pants that could be worn wet or dry, the legs of which could easily be rolled up to wear while swabbing the deck.
These jeans were laundered by dragging them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the exposure to sea water and sun would gradually bleach them to white.
Modern Blue Jeans with Riveted Pockets Date Back to the Gold Rush
A German-Jewish dry goods merchant named Levi Strauss was selling blue jeans under the "Levi's" name to the mining communities of California in the 1850s. One of Strauss's customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from Levi Strauss & Co.
After one of Davis's customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn pants, Davis thought of using copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the top of the fly. Davis suggested to Strauss that they go into business together. After Strauss accepted Davis's offer, the two men received a U.S. patent for an "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings," on May 20, 1873.
Contact the Westside Sharpener / Rhino Custom Knives
Laurence Segal
Telephone:
310- 266-5416
(10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday)
Email: rhinoknives@msn.com
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