Levi's Vintage Clothing

[Spiraltoy]

’37s had another wash. Rally like this stage and the different blues of the fabric. The roping ain’t half bad for an lvc either.

Edited June 27, 2020 by Spiraltoy
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[lance]

Beautiful evo, Spiraltoy, Nice Work!

[Spiraltoy]

Cheers mate! They’ve been my go to summer jeans and sweatpants before that. Had them for 13 years so they could have been much more faded if I wasn’t suffering from too many jeans Syndrome.

[Maynard Friedman]

Nice @Spiraltoy - are those suspender buttons you’ve added the ones that came with a Lightning magazine a few years back? I had them and put them on my Lee 101B ‘36 cinchbacks.

[Spiraltoy]

@Maynard Friedman sure is! Well spotted. I never wear suspenders anymore but I went all fancy with leather washers and all so I don’t want to remove them For sentimental reasons.

[andyrcii]

nice fades.. how many days wear before their first wash?

[Spiraltoy]

@andyrcii no idea. As I wrote above ive had them for a while and they where my sweatpants for a few years. It might have been 3-4 years before the first wash so no idea how many days. They’ve been washed pretty frequently though...

[Dry]

Still can't stop wearing or bring myself to wash my 555 201 1937s! Whiskers are breaking out everywhere. The colour remains very dark so the first pic is more representative in this respect

[Topnotcher]

I know for some of you guys is it blasphemic,but i bought me a pair of Kaihara denim  501xx  1955.made in ,,europe,, :-)

when the postman gave me the parcel i thought -wow ,nice weight and unpacked i was really surprised about the denim. My first pair was the 37` 201  in 1997 and over the years i bought a lot ,mostly 55er 501 and 201 and this denim reminds me a lot on the early days of LVC !!! Stiff ,slightly hairy and right thickness, i would say real 14 oz .

Jumped in and was a little shocked how perfect fits the waist. Nobody told me how this denim shrinks,so i decided... no risk,no fun. I gave the jean a hot soaking for one hour and this beast shrunk in length only ! Yippieh ! Bought a w 32 l 34 . pre wash waist was 32 " , Front rise 32" ,Lo 8,25 "  ,inseam 34 " ,After wash the front rise is 30 " , inseam shrunk a little under 32 " .The other measurements are the same. Craftmanship and fit and especially the denim are topnotch !. 

I will show some pics tomorrow !

Edited July 3, 2020 by Topnotcher

[Collin]

1 hour ago, Topnotcher said:

I know for some of you guys is it blasphemic,but i bought me a pair of Kaihara denim  501xx  1955.made in ,,europe,, :-)

when the postman gave me the parcel i thought -wow ,nice weight and unpacked i was really surprised about the denim. My first pair was the 37` 201  in 1997 and over the years i bought a lot ,mostly 55er 501 and 201 and this denim reminds me a lot on the early days of LVC !!! Stiff ,slightly hairy and right thickness, i would say real 14 oz .

Jumped in and was a little shocked how perfect fits the waist. Nobody told me how this denim shrinks,so i decided... no risk,no fun. I gave the jean a hot soaking for one hour and this beast shrunk in length only ! Yippieh ! Bought a w 32 l 34 . pre wash waist was 32 " , Front rise 32" ,Lo 8,25 "  ,inseam 34 " ,After wash the front rise is 30 " , inseam shrunk a little under 32 " .The other measurements are the same. Craftmanship and fit and especially the denim are topnotch !. 

I will show some pics tomorrow !

Sounds very interesting! How are the stitching ? Still poly ?

[Topnotcher]

I think so,all the same like my last cone from 2018.I have to say i shot to fast,after a comparasion the new its not so heavy like my pair from 0297.I thinks it has the same ounces and weight like the pair from 2018 from cone but  slightly rougher .Love it nevertheless.sorry for my mistake.some pics tomorrow.

[Topnotcher]

[andyrcii]

they fit very much like mine.. some reassurance when I come to replace them years later. 

[Dry]

3 months' continuous wear - to wash or not to wash?

[Dry]

Mostly LVC but with a fair smattering of Fullcount, Ironheart, non-LVC Levis and miscellaneous added to the mix of jeans for wearing.

[Toegun]

^^^^ mount denim!

[Sympathy-For-The-Denim]

@dry, if you want to achieve sick honeycombs, refuse washing em.

[H...crimper]

LVC 555 from 1996 haven’t worn them for awhile but one of my favourite from back then. 

[Paul T]

those are nice. Are they LVC or the capitall E series? Do show us the tags and 2-horse label if you can. I like what looks like a loom fault on your left knee.

[H...crimper]

8 hours ago, Paul T said:

those are nice. Are they LVC or the capitall E series? Do show us the tags and 2-horse label if you can. I like what looks like a loom fault on your left knee.

Not sure what series but still have the waist label. Brought them at Regents street store along with most of the other item in the series at the time there was only Evis, and hadn’t been able to get new salvage Levi’s since the late 70s I had no idea what was going on in Japan at time. Also another pair from American classics on the Kings road.They are a really nice dark indigo and take a long time to break in but worth it in the end. They are nothing like later LVC even 555 ones. And yes that is loom chatter.

 

 

[Dr_Heech]

I have a pair of these exact jeans! They are from the first run of Lvc, judging by the orange waist tag (later one's were salmon pink). They are 551zxx, and a different fit from the 501xx repro.

Made between 1996-98 l reckon.  Can we see the inside tag (white with silver thread)? Or is it missing?

The pairs made in 1996 in particular have the nicest arcs l've ever seen on a post war Lvc repro.

Edited July 14, 2020 by Dr_Heech
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[H...crimper]

27 minutes ago, Dr_Heech said:

I have a pair of these exact jeans! They are from the first run of Lvc, judging by the orange waist tag (later one's were salmon pink). They are 551zxx, and a different fit from the 501xx repro.

Made between 1996-98 l reckon.  Can we see the inside tag (white with silver thread)? Or is it missing?

The pairs made in 1996 in particular have the nicest arcs l've ever seen on a post war Lvc repro.

I normally cut this out so surprised I left it in.

[Maynard Friedman]

September 1996 production. Good guess Doc!

[H...crimper]

3 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

September 1996 production. Good guess Doc!

Thats when I brought them < you had to pay for them one day and pick them up the next for some strange reason. They are a nice fit with a high rise.

[Dr_Heech]

Nice. Dont think l've seen a pair of 551zxx that are as worn in as your pair.

 

Edited July 14, 2020 by Dr_Heech

[H...crimper]

I used to be a furniture maker and a lot of the wear is from machining wood, I have quite a few pairs this worn from back then, I can’t get anywhere near it now.

[Dr_Heech]

^that loom chatter 

Will have to dig mine out. I remember the zipper pull being a bit fiddly due it's small size(?)

Never fell in love with the fit but they are solid and well made. A classic.

[Maynard Friedman]

I'm having a memory failure so help me out please. What was the name of the cheaper 300 series - jeans and jacket I think - that Levi's (originally) and subsequently LVC produced?

Was it something like - 313 for the jacket and 303 for the jeans?

Edited July 17, 2020 by Maynard Friedman

[Dr_Heech]

^Didn't we have this discussion a few months back?

They are the 333 jeans iirc. They (if my memory serves me better than Mayns) were only around from c.1890-1910's, and were a even more of a budget line than the 200 series.

Sansome would know the exact details of the originals, but Lvc only reproduced the jeans.

[Maynard Friedman]

Did we? Possibly... probably!

Thanks Chuck.