Japan Levi 'S First Released The World'S Oldest Jeans

Levi Strauss Japan hosted the archive Exhibition "OVERALLS -The Origin-" reception at the Levi s Store Store Shibuya store in October 12th.

Japan Levi 's first released the world's oldest jeans

In the 4 day "OVERALLS -The Origin-" exhibition from October 13th to October 16th, in addition to the oldest jeans in the world, "XX c.1879", there are also "NEVADA 1880s" found in Nevada's coal mines and the early generation 501 "BARNYARD c.1890 501 XX XX", which Collectible 3 collections of denim jeans in the world.

Japan Levi 's first released the world's oldest jeans

Lynn Downey, who attended the reception, said, "XX c.1879" is the most precious of many retro jeans kept in the San Francisco head office, probably the jeans worn by American cowboys at that time.

The jeans, which were born in 1879, were sold for only 1 dollars in the US, and now they are worth 150 thousand dollars.

8 years ago, we bought it from the vintage agent. The real discovery of this jeans is not known.

Japan Levi 's first released the world's oldest jeans

Saito Ki, President of Levi s Japanese company, who was attending the party the same day, said: "I have seen this" XX c.1879 "in the photo album before. It is really touching to see the real thing now.

It is reported that the reason why the data of the 1906 earthquake was lost was why the number of "501" was chosen as the product number.