<P> By the 17th century, jean was a crucial textile for working - class people in Northern Italy . This is seen in a series of genre paintings from around the 17th century attributed to an artist now nicknamed The Master of the Blue Jeans . The ten paintings depict impoverished scenes with lower - class figures wearing a fabric that looks like denim . The fabric would have been Genoese jean, which was cheaper . Genre painting came to prominence in late 16th century, and the non-nobility subject matter in all ten paintings places them among others that portray similar scenes . </P> <P> Dungaree was mentioned for the first time in the 17th century, when it was referred to as cheap, coarse thick cotton cloth, often colored blue but sometimes white, worn by impoverished people in what was then a region of Bombay, India a dockside village called Dongri . This cloth was "dungri" in Hindi . Dungri was exported to England and used for manufacturing of cheap, robust working clothes . In English, the word "dungri" became pronounced as "dungaree". </P> <P> The term jeans appears first in 1795, when a Swiss banker by the name Jean - Gabriel Eynard and his brother Jacques went to Genoa and both were soon heading a flourishing commercial concern . In 1800 Massena's troops entered the town and Jean - Gabriel was entrusted with their supply . In particular he furnished them with uniforms cut from blue cloth called "bleu de Genes" whence later derives the famous garment known worldwide as "blue jeans". </P> <P> Levi Strauss, as a young man in 1851, went from Germany to New York to join his older brothers who ran a goods store . In 1853, he moved to San Francisco to open his own dry goods business . Jacob Davis was a tailor who often bought bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co. wholesale house . In 1872, Davis wrote to Strauss asking to partner with him to patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets . The copper rivets were to reinforce the points of stress, such as pocket corners and at the bottom of the button fly . Levi accepted Davis's offer, and the two men received US patent No. 139,121 for an "Improvement in Fastening Pocket - Openings" on May 20, 1873 . </P>

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