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Levi's 501 Jeans The 501 are a genuinely unique product, first manufactures in 1873 in San Francisco and are unchanged to this day. The 501 Jeans are timeless, well designed, functional, adaptable and classic. Traditionally Levi's were worn as hardwearing trousers for working men. Cowboys and Californian farmworkers throughout the century wore them. In the 1950s Levi's meant jeans and jeans meant youth. Levi's were associated with the youth culture of sex, rebellion and heroism. Popular heroes of the youth culture such as Elvis Pressley and James Dean represented this at the time in America. It was also the time of 57 Chevrolet. This fifties look and a fascination with and worship of an American of the past of wide open spaces, cowboys, freedom are what the advertisers drew upon to raise the popularity of the jeans in the 1980s. In the 1960s and through to the mid 1970s jeans were...

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