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mirror.co.ukDid you know that the tiny bits of metal on your jeans - which look like small buttons - are actually called rivets? And what's even more interesting is that they aren't always added to your clothes for decorative purposes, they have a much more important job.
Rivets are normally found around the front and back pockets on jeans and they're made by pressing or hammering a ‘washer’ or ‘disk’ onto a metal stud through the denim.
The use of rivets on pockets dates back to 1872 and their existence is all thanks to a tailor from Nevada named Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss & Co.
Davis had been buying fabric from Levi Strauss to create clothing for miners and adding rivets to the pockets. He wrote a letter to Strauss explaining how the copper
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