If you’ve ever worn a pair of jeans you’ve probably wondered what these tiny buttons on the pockets are for. They’re rivets. Jacob Davis — a Nevada tailor — sent a letter to Levi Strauss ...

The small circular studs called rivets were added in order to prevent the pockets from fraying as back in the day people were ...

the choices that help a brand differentiate its jeans from all the rest. (Have you ever noticed that Stella McCartney likes to punctuate the J-stitch with a rivet, for example?) In my search for ...