Wayne R

The Denim Design Labs L.E. book is out, it's ok but most of the contents have shown up else where, i think you'd have to go some to beat Paul's book, there's also a little book by Tanya Lloyd Kyi called The Blue Jean Book thats quite a good read, the ISBN is 1-55037-916-X. The denim design book is covered with Cone Mills White Oak denim which is a bit novel but i'm not sure that it's worth the $100 price tag.

Does anyone know why Cone are using different types of denim on the 1937, 1947, 1955 and 1966 jeans, ( 1937 XX20 cone fabric, 1947 XUVS cone fabric, 1955 XX50 cone fabric, 1966 XL cone fabric), and does anyone know anything about these different fabrics?

air, where did you get the buckle from? Got a pair of these 1886's (raw) tucked away under the bed, looking at the fade you've got on yours i think i'll pull them out and give them a whirl, great looking jeans.

Paul, i have to agree with you on the detail of these jeans, the booklet that came with them goes on about "genuine detailing"and also has a line drawing of someone wearing a pair of circa1934 waist overalls, but in reality they look like a pair of off the shelf non selvedge jeans, it does seem odd that Levis were very aware of their heritage but failed to reflect that in these jeans. Very nice jeans though, i just shrunk a pair down a month ago, great fit and they do last for ever (got about 7 years wear out of the last pair)

I've got several pairs of these, i bought them in the mid ninties, they were forunners to the L.V.C. stuff. They came in a box and were called Capital E, they also came with a little booklet with the same title on the front, they sold for about $100 in the States and you could also buy them in the Kings Road London (American Classics) for about £200.00. Cracking pair of jeans fit like '55 L.V.C.s

I think i agree with you that the denim has gotten much nicer over the last couple of years, i really like the pre LVC jeans they put together in the early ninties, details on the jeans were all over the place but the denim is first class.

Hello,

Another new face joins the ranks, can anyone tell me why Levis made their LVC's look completely ridiculous when they started to make the busted outseam on the selvedge edge very narrow, i've got a pretty big collection of the early vintage big E stuff that Levis put together pre LVC, right the way through to the 1886 deadstock jeans.

Around about when Levis produced the 1933 varieties the busted outseam suddenly became very narrow (from about 1" wide on the early stuff down to less than 1/2" wide on the 1933's and onwards) i'ts just a personal thing but i'm old enough to remeber wearing big E's when thats all you could get and part of what made Levis stand out was the rolled up cuff and a nice wide selvedge on show.