{"id":12012,"date":"2013-05-20T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T12:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2013-05-20T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:49:48","slug":"celebrate-the-birth-of-jeans-may-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12012","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the birth of jeans May 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that blue jeans were born on May 20, 1873? That&#8217;s the day that U.S. patent no. 139,121 for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US139121?printsec=drawing#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" title=\"Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings\" target=\"_blank\">Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings<\/a>&#8221; was granted to Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss, creating work pants reinforced with metal rivets at the stress points (the corners of the pockets and the base of the button fly). At first these pants were called &#8220;waist overalls&#8221; to distinguish them from bib overalls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/howmade.jpg\" alt=\"cover of How Things Are Made\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Read more about it! Search <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/databases-by-title\" title=\"Article databases list\" target=\"_blank\">article databases<\/a> to find articles such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&#038;db=aft&#038;AN=505377486&#038;login.asp&#038;site=ehost-live\" title=\"UWW-only link to article Blue Denim by the Bay online\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Denim by the Bay: The Levi Strauss &#038; Co. Archives<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Costume<\/em>, 2009, no.43, pp.150-165), or refer to the reference work <em>Patents: Ingenious inventions: How they work and how they came to be<\/em> (2nd-floor Reference Collection, T47 .I44 2004). There are sections on blue jeans in the books <em>Uniforms: Why we are what we wear<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, GT1900 .F87 2002) and <em>How things are made: From automobiles to zippers<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, TS183 .R67 2003). You also can read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levistrauss.com\/sites\/default\/files\/librarydocument\/2010\/4\/history_of_levis_501_jeans.pdf\" title=\" HISTORY OF THE LEVI\u2019S &#174; 501 &#174; JEANS\" target=\"_blank\">timeline<\/a> of the history of Strauss jeans from the company website.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" title=\"Ask a Librarian email or chat\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> if you would appreciate assistance with finding additional materials.<\/p>\n<p>Now that exams are over, it&#8217;s the perfect time to indulge your intellectual curiosity about all sorts of things <strong><em>that aren&#8217;t required for a class<\/em><\/strong>! 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