Blue Jeans

Learn all about the surprisingly old origin of the durable, blue fabric we call the blue jean!

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Woad Dye

Indigo Dye

John Kay's Flying Shuttle (1733)

James Hargreaves's Spinning Jenny (1770)

Edmund Cartwright's Power Loom (1785)

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin (1793)

Slater's Mill (1790)

Lowell, Massachusetts

Jacob Davis's and Levi Strauss's Patent Letter (1873)

The Levi's "two horse" trademark.

An old example of the Levi's tag.

H.D. Lee Mercantile Company, est. 1889

Lee's Famous Union-Alls

Women at a Dude Ranch.

Dude Ranch Visitors

The 1990s Nickelodeon Show: Hey Dude

Hollister, California Event (1947)

Marlon Brando in The Wild One film. (1953)