谁发明了牛仔裤？

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Melanie Rehak, 谁发明了牛仔裤？ 纽约时报中文网, Sept 5, 2014
cn.tmagazine.com/living/20140905/t05jeans-makers/


, which is translated from

Melanie Rehak, Who Made That? (Bluejeans). New York Times Magazine, Aug 24, 2014.

Note: "in 1872, one of Strauss’s customers, a tailor named Jacob Davis, made him the offer that would change his fortunes — and the way Americans dressed — forever. Davis had been buying Strauss’s blue denim and duck cloth to sew 'waist-overalls' and had perfected a method of reinforcing them with the same copper rivets he used on horse blankets."

For duck cloth, see cotton duck
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_duck
("from Dutch: doek, 'linen canvas'), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, commonly called 'canvas' outside the textile industry")