This detail on some jeans should catch your attention. It gives great value to your garment, especially if you want to resell it.
Reselling clothes has become commonplace. Most often, it is necessary to do so at a lower price than the purchase price in order to attract potential interested parties. That said, some coins may be worth much more today than before. This is the case with certain jeans. They are part of the most famous brand of blue pants: Levi’s. Founded in 1853, the brand exploded in popularity in the 1950s with its jeans. Over these decades, Levi’s has continued to evolve its models.
Some vintage models are still very successful, they are even coming back into fashion. “You can’t go wrong with a pair of vintage jeans. Not only are jeans a timeless fashion statement, but they are also made to last, meaning even an old pair of jeans can still be of great quality fantastic”, assures him site of the brand.
Levi’s has revealed how to spot these “old” jeans, whose image, tenacity, and therefore value, are much more important than others. Just inspect them a little.
Several elements indeed give clues to the period of creation. If there are no care tabs, chances are your jeans are from before 1970. Looking at the inside seams, if you find a single stitch running down the inner thigh, so this indicates that the jeans this time were made before the mid-1980s.
But you can still find jeans much older than that. And this time we enter the collector’s item or almost. Online, some jeans have sold for several thousand euros. We even found an offer on eBay for 31,000 eurosfor a very specific model. The detail that will make the difference on these jeans and which will allow them to be resold at a high price is the “Big E” logo, which represents the word Levi’s written in white capital letters on a red background. To find it if you have very old jeans in your wardrobe (or your attic), know that this big “E” is highlighted on the label of the back pocket of the jeans. If you ever see it, you may have gold on your hands.
But be careful, this is not enough: the font must also be clear and tilted. These two criteria attest that this garment was produced between 1949 and 1954, a short period during which the brand had changed its logo. Today, the “e” in Levi’s is lowercase. Enough to make jeans ever more timeless perhaps.