Jeans

                    The Gold Rush of 1848 attracted many adventurers to Caifornia. Levi Strauss (20Years) had been a draper, or cloth seller, in New York and he took a few bolts of cloth seller, in New York and he took a few bolts of cloth to sell on the journey west. In this manner he earned his way and by the time he reached California, Levi Strauss had sold everything except a roll of canvas.

                     It turned out that "up in the diggin's," where the miners worked, pants wore out very quickly. So Strauss made some pairs of canvas trousers to sell to miners. More and more miners wrer coming to Strauss and  asking him for a pair of those canvas trousers. It was not  long before he forgot all about gold digging.

                    He called his pants "Levi's", They were popular with cowboys as well as miners. Today, called Levis or blue jeans, they are popular with men, women and children in many countries of the globe.