OLDEST KNOWN PAIR OF JEANS AUCTIONED OFF

I am a Levi’s guy. All my jeans are Levi’s. Not because of only the name, but because they fit well and I’m comfortable in them. Levi’s are usually the most common jean in people’s collection mostly due to the fact that they evolved and grabbed on to trends over the decades they have been around. Perhaps this latest auction will start a new trend. A pair of pants recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina are thought to be the oldest pair of jeans in existence and they hail from the gold rush era of America’s western territories. The pants sat at the bottom of the ocean in the hull of the SS Central America until the wreck was discovered in 1988. The jeans were auctioned off and brought in $114,000 to the seller. The only question remains is if they are actually tied to Levi Strauss who invented the jeans 15 years later. According to the story they MIGHT be from his company when he was simply in mercantile, but the company does not agree that they are his jeans because there are no tags on them and other reasons. There are a lot of other interesting and more expensive items from that wreck that have gone to auction, but this might be the most trendy. I’m left to wonder if Levi’s will come out with a new pair of trendy jeans that will be for sale in 100 years that have been kept at the bottom of the ocean all that time. Maybe just bring back acid washed jeans instead.

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