First Look at Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln

Had Lincoln lived another 8 years, it’s conceivable he could have worn jeans.

Levi’s brand of denim jeans was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, (Kingdom of Bavaria) to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers’ New York dry goods business. In 1873 Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis received a U.S. Patent to make the first riveted men’s work pants out of denim: the first blue jeans.

Though the sneakers are a jolting anachronism.