UNIT 3, 11, Brand names

[enriquear]

Levi Strass, a businessman emigrated from Germany, started the Levi Strauss Company at 1873 in San Francisco, California.

At 1872 the Lithuanian tailor Jacob Davis, say to him that the pockets of your trausers were breaking easily, with the hard work of the mine. And they found a solution, to put a rivet in its corners. So it was born the first Levi Strauss jean.

In the 1950s, some famous actors like James Dean made popular the jeans among young people. (I could not find any more).

The Nike Company produce very kinds of sportswear and others articles for the sport. In actuality very young people like wearing this brand of sportswear, they want to wear trainers, t-shirts, sweatshirts, tracksuits and others.

The Nike's Fun Police are a trainers of this brand for to play basketball.

The Rayban sunglasses company started at 1937. Was created by Bausch & Lomb, in commission with the USA Air Force. At 1999 Bausch & Lomb soul the brand to the Italian company Luxottica.

[carol lucena]

Do you think are good brands with more advertising than others?
Prefer to wear clothes very modern even bother or otherwise seek comfort?
Usually wear jeans every day?
What is your favorite clothes?
You can never miss in your wardrobe?
Tend to attract attention at parties for your style and your look?

[carol lucena]

Who started the Levi Strauss Company? Levi Strauss, whose real name was Loeb, born in the town of Buttenheim, Bavaria (Germany), and was forced to emigrate at the age of 18 with his mother and siblings to the United States, after the death of his father 1845.
Which actors influenced the image of jeans, and why? Some of the actors who popularized the brand Levi's, were Marlon Brando and James Dean thus becoming an icon of the rebels
Any other interesting facts about the history of jeans: For me very interesting it is a fact that was completed thanks to popularize the young stars of Hollywood and World War II, who lead the rustic life urbana.Y trousers above (in Europe) in the French May, Feminism, Hippie movement, Woodstock, Vietnam and Andy Warhol.
What kinds of sportswear does Nike produce? Nike is a company dedicated to sportswear, sports shoes how much clothing for any sport.
What are Nike's Fun Police? It’s the slogan "Just do it" became more than a brand: it was a symbol of sport and self-improvement
When was the Rayban sunglasses company started? In the 20's and the development of new aircraft to achieve ever higher levels, there are problems related to altitude: riders begin to suffer headaches and nausea because of the reflections of light, so in 1929 the general MacCready is directed to the company Ray-Ban to request a new type of glasses for Air Force.