Jeanlike

The sentiment stuck with him and, years later, he decided to design a button-down shirt and a pair of jeanlike pants to sport in the studio.

Strauss was not the first producer of commercial jeanlike work pants in the United States. That honor goes to Sweet-Orr, which preempted Levi’s by two years, according to James Sullivan, the author of Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon.