Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the Kilt isn't 'just clothes'.

[Lallans]

The story I heard was that Levi Strauss ended up with a surplus of the darned stuff and made pants with rivets for miners, not to mention his name and his fortune. And that happened in the U.S.A.

Yay! Another chance to air my inner Clavin!

It was during the Nevada or California gold rushes. He had an abundance of tent canvas but noted that there was a shortage of work clothing for miners. The results were jeans, named for the fabric. He put rivets in the crotch, which led to many a yelp around the cowboy camp fires of later years. Wrangler removed the crotch rivets and took over a huge share of the cowboy market.

[Mike_Oettle]

Chirs wrote: “One of my favourite things to tell ‘racial enthusiasts’ is that, if you're of European extraction, your ancestors are probably from India.”

Small geographical correction: The Indo-European or Indo-Germanic peoples (both terms are used) originated from a region somewhere in the steppes, from where they invaded many lands in both Europe and Asia.
The ones called Aryan were in fact those who initially settled in Persia (or Iran). Other groups also invaded India and eventually reached as far south as Sri Lanka.
Various waves of Indo-European invaders settled in western Europe, including the Celts, the Italics (the Romans were Italic), the Hellenes, the Slavs and the Germanic peoples.
One tribe conquered an existing kingdom in the southern Caucasus region and intermarried with its people, so creating the Armenian nation.
Regards,
Mike

[kc8ufv]

...made pants with rivets for miners...

Big mistake on his part. Should have made kilts. They would have been more comfortable, and wouldn't have needed the rivets.

[Mike_Oettle]

kc8ufv wrote: “Big mistake on his part. Should have made kilts. They would have been more comfortable, and wouldn't have needed the rivets.”

[jgcunningham]

Strauss was against removing the crotch rivet until he fell victim to it himself at a campfire. Ouch! Talk about learning a lesson the hard way.

[thescot]

...or Honduras, Cuba, Nicaragua...?

Well, OK. Mexicans, Hondurans, Cubans and Nicaraguans, too. . . But no Irish!

(General sounds of complaint.) OK, the Irish can wear 'em, too.

(If you haven't seen Blazing Saddles, watch it before you blast me.)

[The Thirsty Viking]

Well, OK. Mexicans, Hondurans, Cubans and Nicaraguans, too. . . But no Irish!

(General sounds of complaint.) OK, the Irish can wear 'em, too.

(If you haven't seen Blazing Saddles, watch it before you blast me.)

'Scuze me while I whip dis out.....

[The Wizard of BC]

There is almost as much myth around blue jeans as there is around kilts.

Levi Strauss was not a tailor and never made a pair of blue jeans. There is also no evidence that he ever wore a pair. He ran a wholesale dry goods store in San Francisco. He opened his first store in 1858 which was 18 years after the California Gold Rush.

It was Jacob Davis who was a tailor who made and repaired the items which were called generically "overalls" and which we today call blue jeans. Overalls were commonly available but they were prone to wearing out. Jacob Davis was buying cloth from Strauss to repair overalls. Some of the first cloth was a hemp tent fabric but it chafed. Strauss got a hold of some cotton denim and sold it to Davis. It was Davis who came up with the idea of reinforcing the weaker denim fabric at the stress points with rivets. He called these "Riveted Overalls"
Davis had no money to take out a patent and go into production so he approached merchant Strauss.

Manufacturing of "Levi Strauss & Co's Riveted Overalls" began in 1873.

The design of Levi Strauss jeans has be changed many times even though the company marketing implies otherwise. What the marketing actually says is that the "label design" has never changed.

[Father Bill]

There is almost as much myth around blue jeans as there is around kilts.

Levi Strauss was not a tailor and never made a pair of blue jeans. There is also no evidence that he ever wore a pair. He ran a wholesale dry goods store in San Francisco. He opened his first store in 1858 which was 18 years after the California Gold Rush.

It was Jacob Davis who was a tailor who made and repaired the items which were called generically "overalls" and which we today call blue jeans. Overalls were commonly available but they were prone to wearing out. Jacob Davis was buying cloth from Strauss to repair overalls. Some of the first cloth was a hemp tent fabric but it chafed. Strauss got a hold of some cotton denim and sold it to Davis. It was Davis who came up with the idea of reinforcing the weaker denim fabric at the stress points with rivets. He called these "Riveted Overalls"
Davis had no money to take out a patent and go into production so he approached merchant Strauss.

Manufacturing of "Levi Strauss & Co's Riveted Overalls" began in 1873.

The design of Levi Strauss jeans has be changed many times even though the company marketing implies otherwise. What the marketing actually says is that the "label design" has never changed.

Cool!

[Nick the DSM]

Actually, the NM sounding-out you provided is pretty close to the dictionary pronunciation (I copied the dictionary pronunciation guide). There's a little bit of a 'j' sound with the 'y', making the double-l (ll) sound kinda like 'zhay' - hence the 'JE' in the dictionary pronunciation. (gah-ZHAY-go).

Anyway, that's the Spanish lesson for the day. Back to your regularly scheduled thread. Sorry for the threadjack.

It really depends on where the speaker is from. Sometimes the "ll" has a "y", sometimes it has a "je" sound.


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