Posted on 05/26/2018 10:26:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The 125-year-old Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans, which failed to sell at auction in 2016, now have a new owner somewhere in Southeast Asia.
"It's somebody who loves old Levis," said Daniel Buck Soules...
The price puts it near record territory for old Levis. But the private sale agreement prevents Soules from disclosing the exact price or the buyer's location, he said. The buyer sent a representative to Maine to inspect the jeans before buying them on May 15, he said.
They were purchased in 1893 by Solomon Warner, a storekeeper in the Arizona Territory....
The denim was produced at a mill in New Hampshire, and the jeans were manufactured by Levi's in San Francisco.
The cotton jeans, with button fly, had a size 44 waist and 36-inch inseam...
They'd been stored for decades in a trunk and were in pristine condition because Warner wore them only a few times before falling ill...
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Ok, that made me laugh.
Levis is a pro Communist company.
The sportscar... or the pair of jeans...
Cotton goes rotten at some point. Unless they were kept in formaldehyde or its equivalent, I would think these would be falling apart.
That movie;
“Something About Mary”
Is Terrifying!
I received exactly 3 pair of shrink-to-fit levis each year. Two pair at the start of school with the pants cuffs rolled up about 4 inches. Later, in 7th grade, l learned how the cool guys rolled their levis up on the inside. They denied that they were hemmed, but I was always suspicious.
By Spring time, the original 2 pair were well used and no longer had to be rolled up, partially due to growth, so a 3rd pair was bought and by the time summer started, the original 2 pair became summer cut-offs. That pattern repeated up into high school.
I was a die-hard 501 guy, knowing what size to buy, then wash them several times to get them shrunk down to be able to wear.
Upon arriving on the East Coast and having Casual Friday implemented at the office, it was obvious of the eastern snobbery, for the policy for casual clothes barred denims.
To this day a person in a sharp pair of Levi's is well-dressed to me.
Likely several hundred dollars. And you could kick them to ebay.
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