“As long as I can have you here with me/ I’d much rather be, forever in blue jeans, babe.” Neil Diamond’s recording came along decades after many of us held that same sentiment in our youth. Blue ...

Laborers mining for gold in the early days of America's Wild West kept ripping their pants, leading tailor Jacob Davis to add copper rivets to key points of strain to prevent them from tearing. Davis' ...

Happy birthday, blue jeans! Here's a brief history lesson to celebrate how blue jeans got their start 147 years ago.

The perfect fit -- The sans-culottes: before the blue jean -- Tug-of-war: "those pants of Levi's," and the competition -- Dudes: selling the western frontier -- Modern pioneers: at work and play -- "A ...