Talk:Levi Strauss/Archive 1

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does anyone know who his wife was if he got married
 * His bio at the Levi Strauss and Co. website doesn't mention a wife or children. When he died, his estate passed to his nephews.  That suggests that he either didn't marry, or survived his wife and any children. Gentgeen 22:52, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

does anyone know where he died and where his burial place is?

Burial place of Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss was buried in Bruin P.A. in the park at October 14th 1994

he never married

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it did saw that his brother in law so he must have married —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.204.61.33 (talk) 03:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC).
 * The official site states he did not marry. A brother-in-law does not have to be his spouse's brother, but his sister's husband too, which in fact is what this brother-in-law is. You can find this and more at the official site in his bio. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 14:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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it says that his sister got married so maybe that was his brother in law by his sister not by his wife. Also how was he burried in 1994 if he died in september of 1902 thats a 92 year difference.

Origin of Denim
The article states: "... he switched to a sturdy fabric called serge, made in Nimes, France by the Andre family. Originally called serge de Nimes, the name was soon shortened to denim." This is in direct conflict with the official site. A history of denim is provided there and it pretty much makes it clear that this is not true. The fabric was not purchased from France and this sentence not only indicates it was, but it also suggests that Strauss purchased fabric from the Andre family, although that might not have been intentional. What the history article is clear about however is that the hypothesis that denim orginates from de Nimes is likely incorrect, since de Nimes fabric was made of silk and wool where denim has always been made of cotton. The article is very in depth, and it's clear that the above statement needs revision. Probably instead something saying that traditional scholars have speculated a de Nimes / denim connection, but the Levi Strauss company (as well as "recent scholars") find it questionable. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 04:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The article is nonsense. Serge de Nimes was not made from cotton; levi bought his denim from the Amoskeag factory complex in New Hampshire. It was conventional denim, as we know it. The orignal Levi's article, and recent French and British research, makes it clear that Serge de Nime contained wool; then a cotton based twill, made in the UK, was called Serge De Nimes, or perhaps denim; then by the 1820s, a fabric essentially similar to today's denim was being made in New Hampshire.

The biography at the Levi's site is essentially correct; my own book, Denim, An Illustrated History, also draws on other sources —Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulCT (talk • contribs) 12:20, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Background
In addition to the denim myth above, this whole paragraph, with the exception of the David Stern statement (which I left out), is entirely fabricated. "''Levi, estimated at about 5' 11" and 185 pounds, was often found leading a pack-horse, heavily laden with merchandise, directly into the mining camps found throughout the region. The story goes that both prospectors and miners, often complaining about the easily torn cotton "britches" and pockets that "split right out" gave Levi the idea to make a rugged overall trouser for the miners to wear. These were fashioned from bolts of brown canvas sailcloth, with gold ore storage pockets that were nearly impossible to split. Levi exhausted his original supply of canvas as the demand grew for his hard-wearing overalls...''" Strauss never sold directly to miners, he sold fabric to outfitters who in turn sold them to miners. I can find no reference that he visited mining camps or that he exhausted his original supply of canvas. Again, Levi jeans was not Levi's idea, it was someone else's and it was Davis who originally made the jeans. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 13:20, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

AGREED.

THis para seems to date from stories that circulated in the 60s and 70s. The invention of jeans, by Jacob Davis, is well-documented because of a Levi's patent infringement lawsuit, when Jacob - Levi's business partner, and later factory manager - described the invention of the jeans. The first examples were made from white cotton duck, and then denim, supplied by Levi.

In addition, early Levi's were made, if not from denim, from cotton duck - NOT canvas.

I can't edit this entry as my knowledge comes from first-hand research done for a book, but the information to correct this is available in the Levi's history, and in my book, mentioned above. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulCT (talk • contribs) 12:24, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi people
I noticed the ".... the demand grew for his hard-wearing overalls, and so he switched to a sturdy fabric called serge, made in Nimes, France by the Andre family. Originally called serge de Nimes, the name was soon shortened to denim.[citation needed]"

I went to the article 'Denim' and there was a citation for basically the above statement (that denim was originally named 'serge de Nimes'). Since I don't know enough about Wikipedia to do it myself, could someone see if this source will work, and then cite it? Thanks. -Guest —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.194.83.177 (talk) 22:25, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Levi strauss died in 1902. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.212.37.149 (talk) 14:52, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow, there seem to be a number of significant questions concerning this article. It needs some work, or some warning notices, or something. My complaint seems almost trivial.

The article says "His parents named him Löb, but when he entered Ellis Island they couldn't understand his name, therefore, they changed it to Levi after he came to the United States.[3]" The cited reference says nothing about that, that I can see. What caught my attention was the reference to Ellis Island. It was the primary immigrant entry point only after 1892 (per the Wikipedia article on Ellis Island). Before that it was the Castle Garden Immigration Depot, but even that only goes back to 1855. In 1847, when Levi Strauss came over (if that's the right year), I don't know WHERE immigrants were processed in New York. But it wasn't Ellis Island.

What a mess this is. Yea you are.

71.86.125.122 (talk) 10:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Honors
The "Honors" section is blank. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.148.18.65 (talk) 11:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Photograph of Levi Strauss
Is there any interest in adding a photograph of Levi Strauss? Bus stop (talk) 17:53, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Name - pronounced
Years ago in Chicago (late '70's) there was a radio show I listened to called The Jewish American Variety Hour and they were discussing how his name was originally pronounced LEV-EE and over the years it came to be pronounced LEE-VY.

Has anyone else heard this?

Kielhofer 06:09, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Is Levi Strauss of any relations to the Isidor Straus of the Titanic fame or the engineer Joseph Strauss of the Golden Gate Bridge?
Any relations to the two people?

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