Vent: I saw a video on the history of denim and the rivet thing blew my mind

I was watching a doc on YouTube about workwear, and they said Levi Strauss and his partner, Jacob Davis, got the patent for putting copper rivets on jeans in 1873 because miners kept ripping the pockets. I always thought it was just a style choice, not a fix for a real problem. Has anyone else found a piece of clothing that's built that way for a reason you never knew?

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the_gray2mo ago

Check out the history of the little loop on the back of shirts.

allen.william1mo ago

Seems like a lot of fuss over a scrap of fabric. It's just a loop, not some deep mystery of clothing design. People really overthink the small stuff sometimes.

anthony_sullivan72mo ago

Actually looked that up once and it's way more random than you'd expect. Heard it was for hanging your shirt on a hook back in the day, like in navy uniforms or something. Kinda useless now but I still use it sometimes to hang a shirt on the back of a door. Maybe it's just me but I like little details like that, even if they don't do much anymore.