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Reported by Mark Lang
LEVI STRAUSS & CO., SAN FRANCISCO
1829 Levi Strauss is born in Bavaria; he will emigrate to the U.S. at age 18.
1853 Strauss, 24, arrives in San Francisco and fashions the first pair of jeans–known as ‘waist overalls’–out of heavyweight brown canvas-like material.
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