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Who is credited for manufacturing and marketing jeans?A. Levi StraussB. Arthur WellesleyC. Mary PhelpsD. Lyman Blake1. C2. D3. A4. B

Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : A

The correct answer is Levi Strauss.

  • Levi Strauss is credited for manufacturing and marketing jeans.
    • Levi Strauss, as a young man in 1851, went from Germany to New York to join his older brothers who ran a goods store.
    • In 1853, he moved to San Francisco to open his own dry goods business. Jacob Davis was a tailor who often bought bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co. wholesale house.
    • In 1872, Davis wrote to Strauss asking partner with him to patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets.
    • Levi Strauss patented trousers, the term "blue jeans" had been long in use for various garments (including trousers, overalls, and coats), constructed from blue-coloured denim.
  • Hence, option 3 is correct.

  • Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister.
    • Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington is today more famous as a soldier than as a politician.
    • In fact, as the Prime Minister, he was known for his measures to repress reform, and his popularity sank a little during his time in office.
  • Mary Phelps Jacob (20 April 1891 - 24 January 1970), better known as Caresse Crosby.
    • She was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra.
    • She was also an American patron of the arts, publisher, and peace activist.
    • She and her second husband Harry Crosby founded the Black Sun Press which was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of many emerging modernist authors including James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, and René Crevel, among others.
  • Lyman Reed Blake was an American inventor who devised the sewing machine for sewing the soles of shoes to the vamp of the shoe.
    • Born in South Abington, Massachusetts, Blake started off in the shoemaker business at a young age, first working for his brother Samuel.


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