Levi's Vintage Clothing

[Vinneus]

Shouldn't those 505s have a chainstitched hem Kiya?

HA! Maynard's on a roll as of late!

[Vinneus]

aslo... ill ask for Edmond. "Kiya where to cop?!"

[Shorty Long]

What the fuck is this all about??? More info please!!!

Look what just showed up in the mail...

[Joseph Hill]

I believe it's craftsmen, and craftsmenesses.

ThisSunday- what's WPG?

So is the limited 505 part of LVC/XX, or yet another orphaned brand extension that floats off into the ether?

[kiya]

Shouldn't those 505s have a chainstitched hem Kiya?

You would think so, right?

[edmond]

aslo... ill as foe Edmond. "Kiya where to cop?!"

aint copping those i burn all mah levis

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

You would think so, right?

#thaifakes?

[erk]

aint copping those i burn all mah levis

not a collab i guess.

[dr.house]

moar info would be nice kiya. Where from?

[LC_Miey]

I believe this one is the same as the one kiya posted;

http://www.amrag.com/shopping/men/item10057745.aspx

they are called LVC:reproduction....kind of repro of repro to me

[kiya]

moar info would be nice kiya. Where from?

No idea, they just showed up at my house, how they even got my house address is beyond me.

I believe this one is the same as the one kiya posted;

http://www.amrag.com/shopping/men/item10057745.aspx

they are called LVC:reproduction....kind of repro of repro to me

I don't think those are the same thing, you'd think it would state on the product page if it came it special packaging with a numbered box and all, no?

[LC_Miey]

I don't think those are the same thing, you'd think it would state on the product page if it came it special packaging with a numbered box and all, no?

yea they are different, the one in the link has normal tabs and different stiching.. i stand corrected

[aho]

No idea, they just showed up at my house, how they even got my house address is beyond me

On the real, that is crazy stalker status level for Levi's...Although in a way, I wish I had the same privileges...

[tropicalbird]

More important, did they size you up correctly?

[GregoryH]

quick question...

do 37's have a 4 or 5 button fly?

thanks in advance

[pomata]

the pockets look small for a 505 or is it just me?

[rnrswitch]

Look what just showed up in the mail...

Do normal 505s have a felled inseam? From the pic it looks like that is felled.

[pomata]

no they don't. strange 505s indeed

[GregoryH]

Fresh 1937's, wasn't too sure how these would suit my build but I think after a soak they will look good. Opinions? are they too loose for my body type? still on the fence a little bit but I'm anxious to see what happens after a hot bath. TTS 30x32, plan on wearing them dry because they are perfect in the waist, don't want to lose too much there...

let me know what you guys think

[Madder_Lake]

I just created a new thread for a post on the original 55 Levis. It is

http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showthread.php?t=242302

My apologies for starting a new thread: if I had found this thread in time I would have posted here, where it would have been at home. But I missed it. At any rate, it's done now.

[Madder_Lake]

Gregory --- i think the 37's look great. Fit well.

[xxhalcyonxx]

Look what just showed up in the mail...

Maybe the 505 is just the normal range. Hence, no big 'e' and no chain stitch.

[aho]

Original post by Madder...worth reposting, I love hearing stories like this:

Here is a curious tale of 1955-cut Levi’s in a far-flung corner of the world.

In 1972 I was seventeen and my girlfriend of the time decided that I needed new jeans — stylish jeans, not the stuff that I was wearing at the time, but the kind of jeans that her older brother and his friends had just discovered: Levi’s. This was in Adelaide — a remote city on the Southern coast of Australia. Information about the outside word trickled in pretty slowly: we were up to date on music but we really had no idea how the rest of the world was dressing, apart from what we saw in music clips. But many had seen the cover of Neil Young’s After the Goldrush and some had decoded it: they were Levi jeans.

So my girlfriend took me to a tiny shop in some very distant suburb and I bought my first pair of Levi jeans. They were completely unlike the jeans that I had bought up to that time: very dark indigo with a super high rise. I wore them everyday of that summer and then many days thereafter (we were not allowed to wear jeans to school).

About the same time my personal discovery was writ large across the asses of almost every other teenager that I knew: Levi’s suddenly exploded — my girlfriend was only slightly ahead of the curve. Suddenly these jeans were everywhere and girls wore them very tight, shrunk to fit every curve. This was a city where a lot of the kids were into surfing and the uniform de jour was a horizontally striped patterned tee-shirt called Golden Breed and high rise Levi’s. In the winter were added Ugg boots, which had just been invented and in the very city in which I lived (so we were at least first with something). This is one of the enduring images of my teenage years: girls with long blond hair, skin tanned by the sun, wearing short cropped striped tee shirts and fitted, faded, high-rise Levi’s. The tee’s were either tucked into the jeans or were short, so that they floated around the waistband of the jeans. It looked amazing and, even though we didn’t know it at the time, we were probably the only kids in the world who dressed this way.

Because, what we didn’t know was that the Levis we were wearing were the 1955-cut that had been superceded in the U.S. in 1966 by a new design. How it came about that some seven years later we were buying the 1955 cut I do not know. Maybe there were vast warehouses in Australia of unsold stock; or maybe Levis in America dumped their old stock of the 1955 cut onto the export market and they wound up in Australia. But I do know that for about three years, from 1972–5, these 1955-cut Levis became the only jeans anyone wanted to wear. The soundtrack may have been Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust but the look was sea-salt and faded denim.

For me something peculiar happened. I became in love with the way these jeans faded (truthfully, I didn’t love the high rise so much: it always looked better on girls). But at every stage these jeans looked better and better: the way the deep indigo contrasted with the whitened areas was a kind of magic. I began to take careful notice of how others jeans faded as well, and some that had hardly ever seen the inside of a washing machine looked even better than mine. And I was not the only one who was doing this — there grew up a secret cult of faded jeans. No one could really afford more than two pairs of jeans so all jeans were worn hard and everyone admired the fadings on everyone else's jeans. And only these Levi’s seemed to fade in this special, magical way. For me that fading seemed to speak of a kind of existential seriousness, of life seen clearly and without distortion. And in truth this is probably how many of us here see it today.

Anyway, all of this crashed down slowly some three years later: our late-blooming cult of Levis exhausted the supply chain stock of the 1955 cut and suddenly, around late 1974, we were faced with a new cut of the jeans. At first probably few noticed that there had been a change — though I think the girls were first to notice that the new jeans were not as high. But word began to get around that these new jeans were ‘not the same’. Indeed they were not. The new jeans did not quite look the same and they did not feel the same, and some time later, we realised that they did not fade the same either. My first pair of the 1966-cut were actually pretty good, but every pair thereafter seemed to be just a little bit less interesting than the one before. And this continued on for some twenty years. And in the end, after two and a half decades of brand loyalty, I gave up. The extraordinary magic of that special concoction of indigo and denim that was the 1955 Levi would not be found in a pair of off-the-shelf Levis.

But it is strange to think, and Levis the company probably have no idea this happened, that seven years after they deleted the 1955 cut they had this bizarre flowering at the other end of the Earth.

Feel free to share any stories that you have of wearing the 1955 cut.

[jewellben]

Fresh 1937's, wasn't too sure how these would suit my build but I think after a soak they will look good. Opinions? are they too loose for my body type? still on the fence a little bit but I'm anxious to see what happens after a hot bath. TTS 30x32, plan on wearing them dry because they are perfect in the waist, don't want to lose too much there...

let me know what you guys think

They look a great fit - where did you get them? I'm after a fresh pair.

[roy6]

let me know what you guys think

That looks perfect, really. A bit more fitted I think than miners wore them, but an excellent modern fit. What I wanted from my '33s but missed.

[Maynard Friedman]

They look a great fit - where did you get them? I'm after a fresh pair.

Jewellben,

www.jingo.com still have a few sizes going cheap I think.

[jewellben]

Jewellben,

www.jingo.com still have a few sizes going cheap I think.

cheers for the heads up - not long enough in the leg for me

[ninja07]

probably something obvious but does anyone know what is the inseam of the sz 32 "L" on jingo's website? thanks in advance...

oh, and Mader_Lake - great post!

[Maynard Friedman]

probably something obvious but does anyone know what is the inseam of the sz 32 "L" on jingo's website? thanks in advance...

oh, and Mader_Lake - great post!

I think L should be 36 but best to ring or email them to be sure.

[Vinneus]

So i gave my 66' a 2nd overall soak, third if you count the top block only soak... i just achieved a 32.5 x 31 out of a taged 34 x34, raw 35.5 x34.