Levi Strauss and Lévi-Strauss

Is there any relation between Levi Strauss jeans and anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss?

Well, there is always the possibility that they were shirt-tail cousins, but Levi Strauss was a nineteenth century American and Claude Lévi-Strauss was a twentieth century Frenchman.

Had Levi Strauss been born after Claude, it might have been possible that he had parents with a nasty since of humor (or whatever it was that possessed the parents of Armand Hammer).

Since Lévi-Strauss was that gentleman’s last name, I would guess that you would have to go back many generations into Germany or Austria to find a connection.

(Watch someone show up with proof that they were close cousins, or something.)


Tom~

I heard they were evil twins.

Well, only one was an Evil Twin - the other was just a twin.

Okay, up against the wall, the both a youze…

Ready…

Aim…

Fire!

(The greatest good for the greatest number…)

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen