The History of Jeans

" 75 years and Levi Strauss -- company created the first pair of women's jeans and now -- and whether colored distressed back east -- are all the above. Is a must have -- every woman's wardrobe so here to talk about the longstanding history of some of our favorite -- is the historian of Levi jeans Lynn Downey welcome additionally they can be here to stop trailer -- yes I do I've got all of these historic jeans just from my computer okay my opt in if we before we get going here you told that we have to put on gloves and this is why. This is because we have oils on our body we use hand lotions all the time and we don't want that transfer to the genes they would have to wash them and we really don't wanna have got -- OK so when onto a vaudeville act here Patrick. -- the first appear that you have over here are kind of what we would talk called the boyfriend jeans nowadays right exactly it's really fun all of these historic genes are really the ancestor of today's modern trends this is the world's oldest pair of women's jeans ladies Levis for created in 1934. And history dates to about 1937. There were warned by a woman named Harry Atwood. She put her name right there and in her waist and -- these at an Arizona dude ranch because east coast women from here in New York couldn't wear -- out on the streets in the 1930s and -- such a masculine male kind of thing where they could wear them on dude ranches free so they would by the here in New York in fact she bought -- at best and come here in New York City. And wore them at an Arizona dude ranch where she could enjoy her Denham riding -- and sit around can't -- bottom outfit that an issue that has that right there how would these these pair of -- Go for me today this pair of jeans is worth about 5000 dollars I agree with you -- okay we don't -- you know how much you pay for them originally -- up I can't I I got three out yes dean's big deal you know for a few years men and women both wearing them -- to examples of where the skinny -- kind of originated from. Actually these two right here of both sort of a boyfriend ancestors sort of a wider lake you can wear them over -- And it was just really as a -- kind of a feminized version of the man's final one. -- This -- 1964 because system has the tags on it that's 253400. Odd parity and in the flare -- you know. I was ousted him right absolutely and of course flares back today this fortieth anniversary Woodstock. Revival of hair and what we have here from our company archives is a hilarious pair of wonderful -- like seven days. Expect this stitching -- on the front we did right there at the factory but whoever she was she loved the magic mountain. Amusement park and she put her own little -- run laps and a little individual tax there absolutely and the clarity you can hold those up and you can see how wide that legacy that our industry. And that's to freeware that was your favorite platforms. And these holds. These -- 1970s -- was -- 1976. Okay so is -- huge value on these not really just with a more than not only fun value but not -- a hundred bucks for that there because again it is expresses what girls are wearing in your archives and you have a ton of other genes mixed with the most expensive -- that you had. The most valuable pair we have is the world's oldest pair of final when -- and we created the first blue -- an 1873. This pared its 1879 it's worth a 150. Thousand dollars. On keeping it in a fireproof vault with -- remarks he accepted or not plus I talk so much when they appreciate it very interesting."