Bart Sights, head of the Eureka Lab, compares the markings and damage on jeans that he guesses are close to 30 years old, left, to jeans made within a few hours of this photograph at Levi's innovation lab in San Francisco, California, on March 21, 2019. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo
NEW YORK—Levi Strauss & Co., which gave America its first pair of blue jeans, is going public for the second time.
The 166-year-old company, which owns the Dockers and Denizen brands, previously went public in 1971, but the namesake founder’s descendants took it private again in 1985.
