A pair of Levi's jeans from the 1880s has sold at an auction in a small town in New Mexico for more than $87,000. The jeans -- found in an abandoned mine by a "denim archaeologist" -- were bought by ...

Michael Harris found the jeans from the 1880s in an abandoned mine. His title is denim archaeologist. According to one of the buyers, the Levi's are still in good enough condition to be worn. Good ...

Vintage jeans are big business. That’s why there are a half-dozen good vintage clothing stores in almost every city — and hundreds, if not thousands, in New York and LA. It’s also why there are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Levi’s jeans have become a staple in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jeans billed as the oldest known pair of Levi’s, believed to have been made as early as 1873 but not authenticated by the company, sold for $100,000 at ...

The oldest known pair of Levi’s jeans, dated back to at least 1873, sold at auction on Saturday evening for $100,000 to an anonymous bidder. The jeans headlined the 2023 Durango Vintage Festivus, an ...

On Oct. 1, in a remote RV park in northern New Mexico, a pair of excavated Levi’s jeans from the 1880s sold at auction for $76,000. The buyer? A 23-year-old from San Diego. “I’m still kind of ...

We didn’t used to wear jeans like we do now. Originally, denim was reserved for workers — on railways, in mines or at factories. Now, though, jeans are everywhere, even if they’ve evolved ever so ...