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Sep 2023
38m 16s

Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jean...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, this is the story of how one man got his American Dream stitched into a pair of blue jeans. Lynn Downey (Levi Strauss & Co. historian) is here to tell the story.

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