This precursor to jeans, practical to wear over one’s normal clothing, also to pretect it, was called overalls.
The story tells how Levi Strauss gradually, left his work as a traveling salesman and rationalized the production of overalls, in the form of trousers.
Soon they were being mass produced, with workers sewing mainly larger sizes which fit everyone, since they covered everything anyway.
Spectacularly successful, by 1856 Levi Strauss’s little store on Sacramento Street had become an emporium. Ten years later Strauss had a very solid company.
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