Jeans, or more commonly blue jeans, comprise the range of casual or work trousers made most often of indigo blue cotton denim with reinforced stitching at the seams and metal rivets placed at stress points. Though introduced as durable work clothing, jeans have become an almost universal part of modern culture, and are worn by people all over the world as both work and fashionable attire. Blue jeans, originally associated with the hard-working spirit of miners during the California Goldrush, were most directly descended from the "waist overalls" developed by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis in 1873. Featured in American movie Westerns as early as the 1930s and 1940s, jeans began to attain cult status through their association with pop icons. Military servicemen during World War II wore jeans regularly while engaging in leisure activities, but it was their children growing up during the 1950s who embraced blue jeans...