FS Rare LVC 555 stamp Valencia Street 201XX 1937 Jeans

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Price - £125 plus £7 UK shipping, £14 Airmail Europe, £17 airmail Rest of World including signed for delivery in all cases.

These rare jeans were manufactured in the now closed Valencia Street factory in February 1997 and represent one of the earlier production models from the Levis Vintage Clothing collection. They the pre-washed or rinsed version of the jean (only available in the USA at the time I believe, and are unworn. I have owned them from new. The denim is hairy, deep and intense dark blue - a wonderful canvas for someone to impose their own character. "The oldest among the out-of-town plants -- the one in Blue Ridge, Ga. -- hails from the Eisenhower administration. The San Francisco factory is a full half-century older: Teddy Roosevelt was president when the plant opened to applause in a city badly shaken and burnt from the 1906 earthquake. Already under construction when the ground shook, the Valencia Street plant was finished in November that year, which was as soon as the company could get it done, according to Levi's in-house archivist, Lynn Downey. The company's original Fremont Street plant was destroyed by the earthquake and fire. Most recently, Levi has used the specialized operations there to sew certain products within its high-end vintage collection. It's also where the company produced replicas of the famed Nevada jeans -- a pair of Levi's found stashed in a Nevada mine and purchased by the maker at auction last year for $46,532." They measure w34.00, length (inseam) 33.25 inches and there is unlikely to be any more shrinkage although it always depends on how they are washed and dried - they can be dry cleaned to prevent shrinkage. The tag size is w38 l36 but the 201XX always ran small so please ignore this One of the very early LVC products before the brand became diluted - the initial launch was of 3 jeans, the classic 1955 502, the 1930's 201 and the first sanforised jean the 551Z. All were produced at the now closed factory: "The plant's first workers were turn-of-the-century Irish and Italian San Franciscans who knew the feel of copper rivets against denim and whose employer, even then, was an American legend. The worn wood floors, thick fabric-cutting blades and heavy-duty sewing machines standing in rows still carry a fine layer of blue denim lint -- the workaday dust of an active jeans factory." This is a totally genuine rare product from my own personal collection, and represents a chance to own a piece of history, fast becoming a collectors item in it's own right. They are priced the same as a pair from the current LVC collection but are in my opinion a far superior product with much greater likliehood of appreciating in value