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Roping on 40 year-old jeans:

yeap... the last 2 pics are great, what's the cut and who sold this?

They're Gitanos. Check out what the seller has to say about them: "an amazing pair of vintage acid wash jeans from PS GITANO. These jeans are worn in but not worn out. And just look how sexy they make your butt look." Ha ha.. Yeah!! You can buy them here (especially if you're an overweight oriental woman): http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-80s-ACID-WASH-Jeans-SKINNY-Peg-Leg-HIGH-WAIST_W0QQitemZ170123942563QQihZ007QQcategoryZ48888QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Does anyone remember those really nasty acid-wash jeans from the '90s that were really baggy in the waist & thighs, and tapered to lika a 4 inch opening at the bottom?

And those nasty tight jeans with fake wear marks on the thighs, that were stained in brown (to look dirty?)

Anyway, 'found these on eBay. If you hurry, you still might be able to cop them...

Why do people do this??!??!??

I only remember the procol harum song:D

..And the excellent version by Giorgio Moroder's Munich Machine...

Hi. I've been hearing of this "Vintage Denim" book for years. I've looked it up, and was never able to locate one for under $200. Someone's selling his copy here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Denim-David-Little-Levis-501-Red-Lines-Guide_W0QQitemZ230145726034QQihZ013QQcategoryZ29223QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem at only $10.50 (for now). Is it really worth buying, and up to what price? I've looked all around, and haven't even been able to preview what's inside...

S type means satisfactory. They are big E. I have many of them in my store.

Do you have a web site? Catalog w/ pics/sizes/prices?

From the shape of the pockets, front & back, they're from the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s. There's rivets under the back pockets; and I doubt the red tab is one-sided. The quality of the picture doesn't allow to tell, and given the fact its regular position is folded over, the embroidered LEVI'S lettering is usually worn off on jeans that age.

As for the incentive of buying more expensive original big E's over LVC, I can certainly see it. The LVC repros are full of anachronic details/errors, they're made of denim visibly different from the original weave & dye on the originals; and even if LVC bothered to REALLY make identical repros of original vintage Levi's, our current lifestyle, washing/wearing habits and detergents would not allow the same end result.

The 606s seem to have the general shape of mine, but the fabric looks like the typical orange tab fabric, i.e. lighter blue, that fades to be a very light blue, unlike the older cone mills denim. If you look at my pics, you should be able to see that the denim is more like a blackish blue, like the non-repro '50s big E's. The previous owner must have washed them quite a bit, and they're still really dark in places.

Also, The thread is lemon yellow on the top of my back pockets, as well as on the change pocket, although it doesn't appear clearly on the pics. The weird-ass tab should be a good indicator, but I've looked around my denim books, and haven't found one similar...

The chainstitching on the top waistband is what makes me think they're from no earlier than the '60s. And I know they were experimenting a lot with styles and fabrics at the time, which makes sense. the pictures don't do them justice; the color is way more beautiful in vivo.

Does anyone know about these jeans I found? The denim has the weight and appearance of big E 501s, but they have orange-tab-like pockets, no rivets anywhere, a Gripper Zipper, two-tone stitching, felled outseams as well as inseams, and a big E tag written in orange on black. I admit I've never seen these before, and bought them off eBay out of curiosity; They look to be from the '60s, but all I can say about them...