40 Common Household Items With a Purpose You Never Realized
Keeping Things Attached
Jeans have many buttons, especially in the pocket area. But those aren’t just there for decoration. No matter how much some of them look like buttons, they’re known as rivets. Their function is to stop the jeans for wearing out at the seams and tearing. Would you believe that the owner of the patent for the rivets is Levis Strauss? When miners in 1829 kept complaining to him that their jeans wore out very quickly, he thought up that solution. Today, it’s like an eternity before jeans wear out, and the company continues making a ton of money. Levi Strauss & Co has also trademarked the orange thread they use to stitch jeans.
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