Durable and enduring, blue jeans turn 150 this week
Briefly

Pedestrians pass the Levi's store in in New York's Times Square.An immigrant and tailor named Jacob Davis teamed up with dry goods merchant Levi Strauss to patent the first riveted blue jeans in 1873.Richard Drew/AP There's bootcut, skinny, flare, ripped, low-rise, high-rise even blue jean look-alikes called jeggings impersonating the classic denim piece.
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