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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

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5 hours ago, Sympathy-For-The-Denim said:

I would have expected a crazy leg twist with those long inseams, assuming they had been fully shrunken 

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 early 30's.

 

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- sorry about the pic quality,  but you get the idea.

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