After over a century of denim experimentation, changes in cuts to keep up with the times, ripoffs by designers looking to capitalize on authenticity and the trappings of blue collar cool, sometimes you just have to trust the original. Levis Vintage Clothing scours the archives of the company that basically invented blue jeans, maybe the most recognizable and enduring articles of clothing of the last 100 years, and makes it all new again. The line resurrects denim weaves and cuts that have been out of production for decades and allows you to buy essentially the same pair of dungarees you might have won in a game of cards with a miner California in the 1900s.
Their shrink-to-fit philosophy means you can wear a pair of unsanforized, rigid, red line selvedge Cone Mills denim in the bath and let it dry on your bad self until the fit is perfect. Or if you don't feel like breaking in another pair of raw denim, you can try one of the Levis Vintage Collection authentic washes. They know how to wash a jean like they know the streets of San Francisco. The 1983 Levis 501 is realistically faded and stonewashed soft like it was broken in exclusively at Springsteen concerts in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Levis Vintage Clothing doesn't focus exclusively on denim trou. The collection also brings sun-faded, washed out tees, western shirts constructed of Japanese denim with sawtooth chest pockets, and sweats to outfit you like a 1930s star of track and field. All coordinate naturally with the finest jeans you can buy. Quality is up to original standards, and every pieces is made carefully with fine workmanship. The best vintage may in fact be new.