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125-year-old Levis sell for nearly $100K
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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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To: Still Thinking

Ok, that made me laugh.


21 posted on 05/26/2018 11:56:54 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: goldstategop

Levis is a pro Communist company.


22 posted on 05/26/2018 12:08:08 PM PDT by TheNext
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To: BenLurkin

The sportscar... or the pair of jeans...


23 posted on 05/26/2018 12:11:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BenLurkin

Cotton goes rotten at some point. Unless they were kept in formaldehyde or its equivalent, I would think these would be falling apart.


24 posted on 05/26/2018 12:11:46 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Still Thinking

That movie;
“Something About Mary”

Is Terrifying!


25 posted on 05/26/2018 12:22:34 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: yarddog
When I was a kid growing up in the 50s and 60s, just about every guy wore blue jeans

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.

26 posted on 05/26/2018 12:43:18 PM PDT by Dustoff45 ( The secret to political success - Love God, Israel and the unborn child.)
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To: BenLurkin
Saw a vivacious young lady wearing jeans the other day that, in my younger years, I would have gladly paid $100K to own (As long as she came with them)...
27 posted on 05/26/2018 12:49:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Big Red Badger
Denim bris!

Ed Ames frontier bris

28 posted on 05/26/2018 12:58:28 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Oorang

Likely several hundred dollars. And you could kick them to ebay.


29 posted on 05/26/2018 7:53:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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