USCIS on Twitter: "#OTD in 1873 German-born American Levi Strauss & Latvian-born American Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings.” In other words, work pants made with copper
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From workwear to $2,000 luxury, jeans tell a quintessentially American story of class aspiration — Quartz
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