Levi Strauss began in San Francisco, my home town, during the Gold Rush Days. Nothing lasts.

>Blue jeans - a western commodity that had lots to do with the demise of Communism in western Europe - are now having one of their largest producers totally exit the continent (production in both the U.S. and Canada being shut down). I don't know if they produce in Mexico, so maybe not the whole continent.
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>Apparently, over the last several years, the jeans have only been assembled here anyways, with all of the preliminary production steps being done off-shore.
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>It would be great irony if it turned out that production is now to be done in (communist) China.
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>UNcheers