VINTAGE Jeans
August 7th, 2008 by timbotron
(photos: stolen from Sabbah.biz)
The “vintage” look has been around long enough to make nearly every college student look like a garage sale.
But there’s “vintage” and then there’s “VINTAGE.”
On July 30th, a pair of Levi’s 201 jeans dating from ~1890 sold for $36,099 on eBay to a guy named “vintboy1″ (pet hypothesis: it was Vin Diesel or Vincent Price). The jeans were found in a mine in California’s Mojave Desert, near the town of Randsburg.
These jeans may bear the world’s oldest skidmarks, and in the back pocket: perhaps the world’s oldest pocket lint and the world’s oldest receipt from a 7-Eleven. Goldminers were fond of Slurpees and not wearing underwear.
