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Joe Louis Dudley Sr. (May 9, 1937 – February 8, 2024) was an American businessman and hair-care entrepreneur. He was the president and chief executive officer for Dudley Products Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of hair and skin care products for the African American community.
It has been noted by the late historian William Starr Myers that Charles Goodyear, inventor of the Goodyear Welt, was a frequent visitor of Dudley's, conferring into the night with Dudley. [3] In 1880, Newark businessman James Johnston joined the company as Dudley's partner. Johnston's vision was to expand product lines and distribution channels.
A pair of jeans Microscopic image of faded fabric. Jeans are a type of trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans", with the addition of copper pocket rivets added by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 [1] and patented by Davis and Levi Strauss on May 20, 1873.
The official "birthday" for blue jeans is May 20, 1873. This was the day that Levi Strauss and a tailor named Jacob Davis received the patent for their process of reinforcing pants with rivets.
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Lee is an American brand of denim jeans, first produced in 1889 in Salina, Kansas. The company is owned by Kontoor Brands, a spin-off of VF Corporation's Jeanswear Division. [1] Since 2019 its headquarters has been in Greensboro, North Carolina, [2] relocated from Merriam, Kansas. [3]
Wrangler Jeans were first made by the Blue Bell Overall Company, which had acquired the brand when it took over Casey Jones in the mid-1940s. Blue Bell employed Bernard Lichtenstein ("Rodeo Ben" [ 1 ] ), a Jewish [ 2 ] tailor from Łódź who worked closely with cowboys , to help design jeans suitable for rodeo use. [ 3 ]
Some are wondering, given that history, why Dudley, a small town of 12,000 residents located on the Connecticut border, hired Hannon. ... Hannon, his soil transfer company, Agritech Inc., and his ...