No indication as to exactly how many times they were worn or under what conditions. Sounds like a scam to me.
No, it's real. There's a story* behind the clothes if you click through, and the rest of the website is definitely real.
*but it's boring
I wouldn't offer a farthing more than £2500 for them.
Not a sou, not a lira, not a pfennig.
Wow, I knew designer clothing was generally made in smaller sizes, but... wow. In some of the jackets sold on that site, a women's size M has a 32" chest.
Apparently it's the job of one of the employees at that Union Made store in the Castro to travel the world and find old Levi's clothing.
For people who would buy this or this, I reckon.
That site is so ridiculous. Why wouldn't you just buy like 15 pairs of Buzz Rickson's/Sugar Cane denim if you were spending that much? Quality is going to be way better than Levi's.
Why wouldn't you? Because you've never heard of those things.
Did they delete the product? I saw it when I clicked an hour ago and now it's gone.
I noticed then that the full product description had a Japanese version - maybe they're marketing to high-quirk-fashion Harajuku types visiting London.
11: Buzz Ricksons are replicas, and the stuff on this site is original. Not that that's an excuse.
never been washed
worn consistently for around six years
Please tell me they were at least vigorously shaken, or beaten with a stick, at some point. Preferably while the owner was in them.
2: I was kidding, actually. I completely believe people are crazy enough to do that. Just figured it was funny to be picky about exactly how disgusting the never-washed pants are. I fail.
I am completely baffled by very expensive jeans, they seem just like very expensive wine, where there can be no imaginable benefit for the last dollar spent. Except there's no scarcity, and how much skill can there be in cutting comfortable pants out of durable fabric? Sizing is an issue, OK, but I don't see custom sizing for fancy brands (thigh circumference I guess, but how many numbers does it take to characterize an ass?). Anyway, the styling seems to consist of choosing a shape for the pants, too bad if your body does not match.
Oh, the rubbed patches that are obvious fake aging, I guess that's styling. But it never looks good-- If you're fit and have long legs, tight pants look good, who cares whether the denim is uniformly colored or has the fake-sitting-down wrinkles in front but not behind the knees.
I don't even understand when embroidery on denim is fashionable and when it's ridiculous. What's the viable maximum age for wearing fashionable jeans-- 25? 30? Hmm- Sheryl Crow and David Sedaris wear jeans, I guess I can too.
how many numbers does it take to characterize an ass
I wonder if one can get grant funding for that.
(In the words of von Neumann, "With four parameters I can fit an ass; with five I can make it wiggle." Or something like that.)
If you're fit and have long legs, tight pants look good
Tight shirts are even more broadly appealing.
Apparently it's the job of one of the employees at that Union Made store in the Castro to travel the world and find old Levi's clothing.
A friend made a mint -- well, okay, several thousands of dollars -- finding and selling old Levi's (pants and jackets) 10 or 15 years ago. I'd thought the day for that was past.
A friend made a mint julep, but I don't like sugary things, so I didn't try it. I was wearing jeans, which was the style at the time.
Totally off-topic, and sort of random: does anyone know the origin of the phrase "heighten the contradictions"? It gets zillions of Google hits, but none of the leading hits actually explain where it comes from. I get the sense that it's an old Marxist phrase but that it probably didn't come from Marx himself. Is that right?
14: I only perused the site briefly -- are there Levi's on it older than 10 years? Because I'm not convinced that the jeans of a decade ago were any better than the jeans of today.
23: Col. North sent voice coaches to Central America. He wanted to heighten the Contras' diction.
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See here for this quote from Marx:
'In a crisis, the antithesis between commodities and their value-form, money, becomes heightened into an absolute contradiction' (I).
It is supposed to be Leninist. I think it is probably false, or at least misleading.
Wait, Shearer cites Marx, just to heighten the contradictions, in a thread where used clothing is supposed to be re-purposed as archival artifact?
Truly a world turned upside down, and can the end times be anything but nigh?
And while Shearer quoted a book on Marx ...
http://acceleratethecontradictions.blogspot.com/2010/04/accelerate-contradictions-notes-towards.html
24: They list a pair from 1947 and a couple from the early 50s.
But really this store seems to be mostly about the snootiest kind of avant garde designers. Meet Tze Goh:
-Your collection looks concise and conceptual - could you give us some insight into the ideas and inspirations behind it, Tze?
"The collection looks at a T-shirt and ways to give structure to a T-shirt, in essence transforming it from an inner garment into an outer garment. The development of the line-up looks at the possibility of expanding and stretching out the T-shirt shape, until it becomes a dress, a cape, a coat. The T-shirt shape looks at the development of T-shapes in garments through history, in particular at that point where gussets are introduced."
-Why did you decide to slightly differ the various shades of white used in each of the pieces?
"It was to express the minimal feeling of white and how different fabrics and fibres in white create different shades and sheens, but still ultimately produce that sharp feeling of white."
Actually, I really like this kind of clothing, and wish I could afford (and fit into) it.