[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Eventually?? Have you noticed that that Our Dollar has been DEVALUED by some 3500 Percent over the last 40 years.***

In 1888 a pair of Levis cost &1.80.

Seventy four years later, (1961) a pair of Levis cost $2.60.

Today, 51 years later a pair of Levis cost $35 dollars.

It first took 74 years for them to double in price.
It took 51 years for them to cost over a thousand times more.

Think how much a postage stamp has risen. 3 cents in the 1950s, now around 45 cents.

[aruanan]

In 1888 a pair of Levis cost &1.80.

Seventy four years later, (1961) a pair of Levis cost $2.60.

Today, 51 years later a pair of Levis cost $35 dollars.

It first took 74 years for them to double in price.
It took 51 years for them to cost over a thousand times more.

Your innumeracy is troubling. The price increase from 1961 (2.60) to 2012 (35) is not 1000 times. It is about 13 and a half times (35/2.6 = 13.46).

Also, you're not looking at the prices in terms of constant dollars.

$1.61 in 1913 (the farthest back I could go) was equal in purchasing power in 1961 to $4.83. So by 1961, the cost in dollars increased, but the actual price in constant dollars fell. $2.60 in 1961 was equal in purchasing power in 2011 to $19.56. So between 1961 and 2011, the cost in constant dollars increased by about 79%. So a pair of Levis in 2011 at $35 has increased in constant dollars by about three quarters over their price in 1961 at $2.60.

[Reeses]

In 1888 a pair of Levis cost &1.80. Seventy four years later, (1961) a pair of Levis cost $2.60. Today, 51 years later a pair of Levis cost $35 dollars.

Assuming the $1.80 price is correct, rising to $35 over 124 years works out to an average inflation rate of 2.4%. That's not too bad, except Levis uses thin denim now and third world labor.

I remember reading a newspaper archive from about 100 years ago and there was a sale on dresses advertised for around $24. Adjusted for inflation clothing seems to have gone down in price over the years largely due to automation in farming, sewing, and shipping from third world countries.

[DuncanWaring]

It took 51 years for them to cost over a thousand times more.

The phrase you're looking for is "1000% more", not "a thousand times more".

"1000% more" is "eleven times as much", which is approximately the increase from $2.60 to $35.00.

If they cost a thousand times more (than the original $2.60) they would cost $2600.

Which may very well happen before it's all over.