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Collecting vintage jeans, especially Levi’s, has been going on for quite some time. I knew a guy back in the ‘80s who quit his day job and started hoarding used Levi’s from around the American Southwest and bringing them to Paris, he made a fortune. He’d go to swap meets and just buy them up, back then people were not as sophisticated about what they had and he would score all kinds of rare jeans that Europeans or the Japanese would pay big bucks for.

That was 40 years ago. Maybe 20-30 years ago, Levi’s decided to get in on the action and started re-issuing various old designs and selling them for hundreds of dollars. Some are cool but I wouldn’t be caught dead in them…might as well have a sign that says, “sucker,” hanging around your neck.