Dr_Heech

Saw this detail on an original pair and thought l'd plonk it here. Don't think this WW2 amateur stitching has been replicated yet - two types of stitch count l'm assuming, done on the same machine?

Sold my DS pairs for £380 and £400 back in 2010/2011 but will definitely keep this last pair.

You still can, but not necessarily NWT. The price for nos pairs is around £300-700 now.

And here is my vintage Levis Vintage Clothing items, as lvc was the abbreviation used from late 2003 onwards. Top pair are 1955 501XX from 1996 and bottom pair are Nos 1920s 201's from 2000. This last pair are destined to be worn in the garden by me once my Csf 41's are trashed.

^in that case here's my vintage Lvc. Bottom Nos pair are 1937 501XX (button stamp 643M) made in USA in 2004 - these are the pair l'm giving to my son. Top pair are 1955 501XX (button stamp 554) worn infrequently since purchasing back in 2003 from Cinch in Newburgh street.

Which one!?! 😁

A rare model, think they were unearthed by the Foremost guy.

Denim related April spring cover for our free monthly local magazine so thought l'd share ..

@Maynard Friedman l have a pair of Bartack 1950s MIJ repros from 1994 (l think but could be '92?) - unfortunately no photo as they are over at Mrs_Heech's place in Saaff London. Think the first repros were late 80s?

1947 Bluebell's Wrangler 1st prototype with levis style arc and leather label. Around the following year after a lawsuit from Levi's regarding arcs, the W stitching appears and the leather label was replaced by a plastic one. The latter was more to do with the modern washing machine becoming the norm and would shrink the labels right up and they would turn to a piece of unreadable jerky leather. Anyway the reason l'm posting is that this is the clearest original 1st label on a pair l've seen so far, so thought l'd share for posterity sake etc (click twice for clarity). Looks to have been soaked/washed once? Never given Wrangler too much thought when it comes to the 'big 3' but the more l study l realise that they were in many ways the first designer jeans compared to Levi's and Lee. Yes the Wrangler brand was late to the party in terms of the (cowboy) market share, but within a very short space of time apparently took a huge chunk of both its competitor's pie becoming Pro Rodeo sponsors etc etc. Anyway, carry on ..

@Sympathy-For-The-Denim you could be right- obviously the jacket in that link is original, but the jeans l'm still not sure about. The rivets were made round-topped rather than dimple topped from c.1926, the suspender and fly buttons were plain until 1927/28 as well as chainstitched hems and selvedge. The beltloops don't look after-market but they are highly unusual in terms of construction, placement and the way they are attached. Could be a custom Taylor job or special customer request maybe? The repro 213 shows a pocket flap that wasn't attached until c.1927 but only single stitching was used until 1936 at least. The repro stitching looks twin needle. Anyway, 800 pairs of whatever that will go straight into storage in denim collections around the world. [Edit] Just glad l have a pair of Valencia St factory made 201's, the best imo

Be careful putting the words Duke and Edinburgh in the same sentence on this forum 😉

To be fair, the cap, sunnies and ear defenders combo may be top heavy looking for you, but they protect me from unwanted golfer attention (which is nearly always) and l look like a cool helicopter pilot to boot 😂

I wear a cap and sunglasses when out as I sometimes need both (my eyes strain from the sun - apparently it's part of being a bit short sighted) but at work l sometimes have hat (various), sunglasses or safety glasses and ear defenders. And when it's dark in the mornings also a head torch which is a nightmare but thankfully not often have to wear all at once.

Interesting, almost as though the Foremost owner is selling the deadstock pair as template for anyone to copy, as long as they have deep pockets. Sure the csf pair will be astronomically priced.

Conners jumping on the bandwagon with a 42 model. Seems there's a third deadstock pair 🤔 Edit. Forget it, they are the same pair that the Sugarcane super denim collectable 1942 model are based on.

To me at least, it looks like the repro with poly stitching and shiny rivets. Yes and yes. Let's hope more photos surface so we can take a closer look(?)

Where is the archive specimen ?? From your link, I can only see images of the already discussed repro and a few pics of an og 213 jacket - where Interestingly the buttons are different from the repro jacket, so the artistic license already kicking in imo. Lets be clear, that belt loop feature was only used on the rear centre beltloops of 501XX jeans circa 1935/36. Even the way the belt loop is constructed looks way off for any vintage pair of levis so l'm still not convinced in the slightest.

They always say based on a pair in their archives (and the picture is sometimes not an og one) but a few of these (and the jacket) details are whack and certainly different from the past 3 releases of the 201 model. Let's hope some actual clear images of this phantom archive piece surface.

That belt loop detail is whack, looks to be on all of them. And what's with the belt loop being in between the front suspender buttons? There's a few other details there that haven't been flagged up on original examples. Typical lvc 'artistic license syndrome' imo. And yes the stitching looks to be poly.

Thanks for those extra photos mate. Obviously they are the same pair as already discussed earlier but nice to see the inside of the jeans, the rivets especially.

Feel daft putting this in the Nice things thread, but l've had it hanging around in the loft for donkeys years and it's just found a new owner so. It complies to something nice that l love within my home but also it was my home on and off for a couple of years away back in my yoof. Macpac super lightweight backpacking tent, which l bought in June 1996, packed away in 1999 and hardly used since. Certainly not used in the last 20 years. Selling point for me that it was the lightest tent on the market at the time and is quick and easy to use. I hiked it around Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand for nearly 2 years and at one point it was pitched in one place for two months! It really was compact living. And in situ in the garden with his mate's tents.. Hopefully my son will get into using it more often.

Yeah l would imagine so too. As a side note, when the red tab was first introduced and advertised in late 1936, the first ways of advertising were to hang these painted flat wooden cut-out cowboy torsos, with an big arrow on the back pointing towards the red tab. At the waist of the top half of the cowboy, there was a massive pair of 501XX nailed to it. I never saw the waist sizes but the inseam was 60 inches! Then at the bottom of each leg, a painted flat wooden cowboy boot was attached, to complete the whole cowboy figure. These were hung outside dry goods stores and retailers in the West in the late 1930's. - sorry about the pic quality, but you get the idea.

Rare 42 inseam 501SXX. S stood for 'Special length' in the 1940s and 1950s, later changed to 501XX SP in the early 60s, then later again to the 1501/2501 and 3501 prefixes. I've seen a 40" inseam before but never a 42. These pics courtesy of Mushroom vintage

Look like vintage 37's @shredwin_206 Nice job