Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How blue jeans started in LA
For every era in American history, there’s a pair of jeans to go with it: bell bottoms, cowboy wranglers, skinny hipster jeans, daisy dukes. They were invented in California. Today is the 165th anniversary of the first blue jean patent.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readFor every era in American history, there’s a pair of jeans to go with it: bell bottoms, cowboy wranglers, skinny hipster jeans, daisy dukes. They were invented in California. Today is the 165th anniversary of the first blue jean patent.
