Blue jeans are really comfy pants, but have you ever heard the story of how they were invented? It's actually pretty interesting. It goes like this...

    In 1850, there was a man named Levi Strauss. He came to San Francisco when he was 17 years old for the Gold Rush.

    He noticed that all the miners needed tougher pants because of the rough work they were doing. Seeing that he could start a business, he cut up some canvas from a tent. He made pants out of it, and soon, every one wanted a pair.

    Levi didn't really like making pants out of canvas because it was too stiff. He started to make pants out of a different fabric. People in Italy started to call the pants "genes". They called them that because the city where the fabric was made was called Genoa.

   Levi decided to change the spelling to jeans, and dyed them dark blue so stains wouldn't show up as well.

   Today, blue jeans sell better than any other type of pants in America!

   How many pairs do you own?

  What other kinds of pants would be fun to invent? Use your creativity and imagination to invent new pants made of special material or made with a special design. What about a new pattern....you decide!