Posted on 03/29/2017 1:54:21 PM PDT by servo1969
Made in Egypt. Last pair I’ll ever buy.
Shrink-to-fit button-fly 501 blues.
I bought mine in 34 X 38 size
That's gotta hurt coming out.
In the year they moved out, 1928, the mine closed down, there were 28 murders in a very small town.
length 37. Cuffs would have been rolled?
They still make them.
Called “Rigid”. Not the same gauge denim as in the 40/50’s though.
Wrangler has some very heavy denim
Old scores getting settled, or, the rats were fighting over the dwindling rations..................
Not tailored. Old Levis—dungarees—shrank a lot. Back in the Fifties, SOP was to put on a new pair of Levis, get soaked and let them dry on the body. They shrank to fit, scandalizing our parents and grandparents.
Me Bad.
37 inch legs? You’re talking 6’ 7” at least maybe more. 6’5” gets you about 34 inch legs. The owner of these jeans could have been about a foot taller than the average American man - wow!
In Philidelphia, they’re worth 50 bucks.
Lol....did you dry them in the dryer, or with the wire inserts, on the clothes line?
37 inch inseam... now that’s a TALL dude!
What we call Big & Tall these days.
I partially paid for college back in the late ‘60’s selling Levi’s for an outfit called Miller’s Surplus in SoCal. We would always tell out customers that the button fly 501’s had to be bought an inch bigger in the waist and two inches longer than their normal size. I folded and stocked so many pairs of those that my hands would turn blue.....
I loved 501’s then....now it’s Wranglers.
HOTRS is a traditional song, long predating Bob. Dylan did record it though.
Yes, it’s a traditional folk song, with no known authentic authorship. It has been recorded by lots of artists because it is not copyrighted............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun
My mom always said the old levis that you could hold up to a light and not see any light through in the fabric were the best kind. She believed they were made of better material.
1890 Levis cost about $1.80.
1962 Levis cost about $2.60.
Today’s Levis, now made in various foreign nations, cost about $30-40.
Figure the inflation rate for those years!
Big bad john...
My dad was raised in a desert homestead north of Phoenix in the early part of last century.
He said the fad with teenage boys back then was to buy the 100% cotton Levi's several sizes larger than their actual size and then sit in a bathtub in the hottest water they could stand until some of the blueing came out and they shrunk to their size. He said they would have to do this several times to get them "just right".
Then they would wear them constantly and never wash them again. A dirty, slick sheen on the thighs and rear was the goal he said, as well as them getting stiff. He said he wore one pair for almost twenty years until they just got so stiff, it was hard to get into them anymore.
My dad said the style in his day was to roll the bottoms up once or twice into cuffs.
See my comment #39 on this thread.
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