Nîmes?
Or Genoa?
(Genes de Nîmes -> Denim Jeans)
It was found the rivets on the back pockets ripped the saddle leather so Strauss went to a sewn “rivet” on the back pockets.
My mom always said the old Levis of the 1940s were better as they were thicker denim.
I remember when I was about 4 or 5 years old, my folks always bought us little kids bib overalls. One day they decided to buy us some new overalls, and I threw a waul eyed fit! “NO NO NO! WE WANT LEVIS!”
They then bought us some denim jeans and I have never worn bib overalls since.
But then I’ve also worn Wranglers and Carhart jeans.
Janet Reno in blue jeans? Paaa-leeeeeze.
Do you know that a pair of LEVIS cost $1.85 in 1880?
80 years later (1962) Levis cost $2.60.
52 years later (2014), Levis cost around $45 or more. Talk about inflation!
There aren’t very many clothing items that stay popular for more than 140 years. It’s too bad Levi Strauss became such a bunch of fag-lovers. Now I have to buy my jeans somewhere else.
“The “Blue Genes Jam”...”?
I hope they haven’t printed up the posters and banners yet.
I stopped buying Levi’s a long time ago, way overpriced and every time I bought 5 pair, EVERY pair fit differently. They Don’t last long either, pretty cheezy in comparison to 40 years ago. I buy Wranglers at Wal Mart for less than $20 and they last a lot longer and All FIT the same, I guess they use 10 yr olds instead of 6 yr olds like Levi’s.
In the 1830s book The Commerce of the Prairies by Josiah Gregg he has a brief passage describing some of the picturesque characters about to set off on a voyage across the plains from Missouri. Among them the frontiersman in his buckskins and the farmer in his blue jean jacket.
Levi Srauss did not invent Fabrique DeNimes, blue dye or pants.
Levi’s lost me when they went homo and released their pro-anarchy commercial from a couple of years back really sealed the deal...the legacy ad I believe...around the same time as occupoo.
Went to Wrangler and I like them better.
I’ve been buying and wearing the “original” 501 shrink-to-fit button-fly Levis for almost 55 years now! Though I have gone up a couple of inches since my first pair I bought when I was 13 years old — !!! IN FACT, I wore original 501 shrink-to-fits to the Reno Air Races just last month! :^)
I’ll wear my leggings.
I’ll be there!