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Almost every pair of jeans has rivets hammered through the denim - but people are only just learning why they're there and what purpose they serve to the wearer

The jeans - believed to be workwear trousers possibly belonging to a miner - went down with the S.S Central America, a steamer that sank off the coast of the US in a hurricane 156 years ago.

We've taken a look through every edition of Steal Their Style since it started in July - and these are the most fashionable gents in the city centre, the M.E.N's Bethan Shufflebotham writes

Will a robot ever make your blue jeans? There is a quiet effort underway to find out — involving clothing and technology companies, including Germany’s Siemens AG and Levi Strauss & Co. "Clothing is the last trillion-dollar industry that hasn’t been automated," said Eugen Solowjow, who heads a project at…