Levi’s Big ‘V’ Jackets: Putting the Value in Vintage
A few weeks back, our newest member of the Rope Dye team posted an article about how to spot vintage Levi’s denim jackets. This led...
Tag : Vintage denim
How To Determine Production Date Of Vintage Levi’s Denim Jackets
This is Denimhunters' definitive guide about how you determine the production date of vintage Levi's denim jackets....
Late 1930s Levi’s “Brooks Brothers” 501
Lynn Downey on the late 30s Levi’s 501 that Michael Williams from A Continuous Lean spotted in Japan recently, “high end stores in New York did...
News From the Archives: The First Levi’s No. 2
Back in March earlier this year, Levi’s historian Lynn Downey acquired a collection of old receipts, credit memos and other financial correspondence from the 1880s and...
Denim Collector: Kasper “Spacey” Weinrich Schübeler
This is the story of a man with a passion. A passion that almost seems like an addiction when you hear his story. 29-year-old Kasper “Spacey”...
Exclusive Interview: Chris from Blue Gold Blues – The British Denimhunter
Denim is constantly gaining popularity and the old workwear pants have truly becoming big business. But not everybody is in it for the fame or...
Putting the V in Vintage
Somewhere in between the timespan of the effectuation of the Marshall Plan and James Dean’s tragic car accident these jeans were produced. In other words, we’re...
The Levi’s Denim Tuxedo
To most people, Bing Crosby is synonymous with christmas tunes, but to many denim heads his also a pioneer in making jeans and denim (especially...
Double Stitching
Also called ‘twin needle’, this is a method that is used to create perfectly parallel seams – often used to make seams more durable. Double...