“As long as I can have you here with me/ I’d much rather be, forever in blue jeans, babe.” Neil Diamond’s recording came along decades after many of us held that same sentiment in our youth. Blue ...

Happy birthday, blue jeans! Here's a brief history lesson to celebrate how blue jeans got their start 147 years ago.

The perfect fit -- The sans-culottes: before the blue jean -- Tug-of-war: "those pants of Levi's," and the competition -- Dudes: selling the western frontier -- Modern pioneers: at work and play -- "A ...