- Levi Strauss started the Levi Strauss company, he was a Bavarian inmigrant.
- Marlon Brando and James Dean made blue jeans fashionable by wearing them in movies, and jeans became part of the image of teenage rebelliousness.
- Blue jeans were originally invented by Tailor Jacob Davis.
- The Ray ban sunglasses company started at 1937. It was founded by Baush and Lomb.