The patent for "improvement in fastening pocket-openings" was granted in 1873, and soon after Levi Strauss & Company opened its first San Francisco factory to manufacture bluejeans. The original design, which was simply called "XX," was eventually assigned lot number 501. Competition was fierce: In addition to an upstate New York company called Sweet-Orr, founded in 1871 (which may actually have been the first commercial jeans producer), there were countless regional jeans companies by the turn of the century, including Osh Kosh B'Gosh in Wisconsin and Carhartt in Michigan. In 1911, the H.D. Lee Mercantile Company of Kansas started producing its own brand of workwear, which eventually led to Lee Dungarees. Along with Wrangler (originally founded in 1904 as the Hudson Overall Company of Greensboro, N.C.) and Levi's, Lee went on after World War II to become what James Sullivan, author of "Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon," calls "the big three" of bluejeans.
“改进加固口袋的方法”的专利在1873年获得批准,不久之后,利维·斯特劳斯公司(Levi Strauss & Company)在旧金山开设了第一家工厂,生产蓝色牛仔裤。最初的设计被简单命名为“XX”,最终指定的批号为501。竞争非常激烈:1871年纽约州北部成立了一个名叫甜蜜奥尔(Sweet-Orr)的公司,它实际上可能是第一个牛仔裤生产商;到20世纪初,出现了数不清的地区牛仔裤公司,包括威斯康星州的奥什·科什·比哥什公司(Osh Kosh B'Gosh)和密歇根州的卡哈特公司(Carhartt)。1911年,堪萨斯州的H·D·李商业公司(H.D. Lee Mercantile Company)开始生产它自己的工作服品牌,最终演变为李牌工装裤(Lee Dungarees)。Levi's公司、Lee公司和牛仔公司(Wrangler,它成立于1904年,最初名为北卡罗来纳州格林斯博罗市哈德逊工装裤公司[Hudson Overall Company of Greensboro, N.C.])这三家公司一直存续到“二战”后,成为詹姆斯·沙利文(James Sullivan)所说的牛仔裤“三巨头”。沙利文是《牛仔裤:一个美国标志的文化史》(Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon)的作者。
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