Click here for Levi Strauss' Vintage Anniversary site!  

NEED HELP IDENTIFYING VINTAGE? CLICK LINKS BELOW FOR SPECIFIC INFO!

FYI - Searfarer began making dungarees  for the U.S. Navy in the 1880s and is  credited by me with starting the bell bottom craze by recognizing a growing demand for navy surplus jeans. They took the line public and imitators followed with navy designed bell bottoms. A high rise slim thigh bell bottom made from two pieces of denim material not four.  This spawned companies like Landlubber who began by making the basic navy cut but soon evolved to radical super bells at 40" with 3" zippers. You can see some 70s dead stock on our buy vintage page.

           BOOM, a super 200 page Japanese vintage clothing magazine, features pictures of youth in their $2500 hidden rivet vintage Levi’s, $750 Hawaiian shirts and $1,200 1st edition Air Jordans. BOOM also tells about their school and friends, and highlights the retailer or boutique where the jeans were purchased. In addition they compare and contrast a ’68 to 73 Levi’s or 1st Edition Air Jordans to a 3rd edition. Two hundred pages of youth collecting vintage clothing - each section boosting the ego of customers, a desire from boutiques to participate and an increase in value, wearable antiques. We will  take this idea on-line.

Old Blue has been in the the blue jeans business since the mid 70s. What  I sold as a manufacturer's representative and in my boutiques de ja vu  For the last 15 years I've operated blue jean exchanges in the Cincinnati area where we specialized in classic and vintage blue jeans (we often sell on Ebay as JeanExchange).  One of our favorite stores and one of the most famous in the country is Trivet's Antiques and Boutique which opened in 1947 in Cincinnati. Pictures of 60 years of musicians and famous customers line the walls. Just ask and they'll show you pictures of the proprietor and a young Elvis at a cousin's house - they're kept in the drawer.  Landlubber and Male were the hottest lines in 1974-76 and they  thousands of dead stock (new but old).

VINTAGE - 20 year old or more - can be quite valuable. For true collectors the differences can be subtle. On these pages Old Blue tries to help you identify the more valuable vintage pieces - JeanExchange #2879764850 began a 10-day auction on Ebay @$15,   hit $135/Mon    $247/Tues    $360/Wed    $588/Sun  & sold on next Wed for $849 to a    but pocket change compared to the ripped Levi's that brought $54,362 on Ebay. You'll see it all at IloveBlueJeans.com!

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