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Tropical cut-offs, Taiwan 1971, by Milt Doyle.

Kaoshiong, Taiwan, 1954 by David Putnam, USN.

Montana fossil expedition by John Ostrom, late 1960’s.

Hardware store, 1970’s, Singapore

Taiwan, 1957/58, Tom Jones, US Army

First(AFAIK) recorded in movie film of denim jeans worn in Singapore. Jeans likely made before 1950, there are back pocket rivets & back cinch. This Malay movie was filmed in Singapore, by Shaw Brothers in 1955. As I’m not a native Malay language speaker I can’t fully understand the dialog.

Oomslokop, you’ll be the best person to fully appreciate this film, enjoy!

Thank you all White Oak staffs.

Poingnantly expressed by those who mattered.

https://youtu.be/IPvLeIcE270

Pand, this has a closed selvage by the way.

Busted, your point is correct and a popular one, even for myself. However China's textile industry could have developed differently than the West, such as the U.S. This point will remain a void given its not a popular subject though. Hopefully i can find out more about 20th century selvage chambrays or denim from China or any other relevant information that might surface in sufu.

Another point of note, the old man that owns this shirt told me he'd bought it around the 80's or 90's and its pretty cheap. He said this brand's still selling, although i still can't figure out the brand and neither could he recall it! maybe i'll just get him to bring me to that shop.

Recently i saw a pair of chambray shirt at my friend's home belonging to dad's work clothes hanging to dry, i inspected it as i would to all denim clothes if chance permit. First thing i did was checking the buttons panel and was surprised to find selvage on the edge of the opening! Upon closer inspection, i can slightly make out the tattered brand's tagging, it contain both chinese and english characters as i barely make out and "Made In The People's Republic Of China". Unfortunately the chinese and english letterings were not very clear.

This made me wonder, were China making selvage chambray or even possibly (at least no one on sufu has a topic on this) selvage denim back many years ago that were somehow unknown to most because their products were confined to China and SouthEast Asia? Maybe someone can shed more info. on this? I'll see what else i can find out.

I have a photo of the chambray's selvage but somehow the .jpg fail to attach. Still working on it!

dont own a scanner, but theres a levis crotch rivet close-up picture of a likely pre-1933 in the book "Denim, an American Story", 2007 ed. by David Little at p.14. In the picture the center of rivet appears as a raised and rounnded dome. Hope it helps.

i use mink oil, it work fine for my lvc leathers, dry from hours to 3 days depending on leather condition, fresh leather dry slowest and retain minimal residue, seasoned leather retain almost no residue.

hi, i've heard of singapore and im wondering if people here are into vintage levis?

do you have some other pictures of this jeans?

Its also narrow on my 555 '47.

Its in the details.

359 is Philipines