CVN Today - Workers wearing their jeans for farming, mining, forestry or other heavy jobs would find them tearing at the pockets or in the crotch. This led to the most important American innovation - the use of copper rivets to add strength to the points of stress where the pants were commonly tearing open. The use of rivets was patented by Levi Strauss, and rivets on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly became recognizable features of American jeans made by Levi Strauss in their mills in San Francisco.

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