These authentic Levi’s 201, No. 2, 1911 style jeans are being sold for a cool $33,000 – a bargain price, the seller claims. This low-ounce selvedge denim features suspender hooks and an adjustment buckle on the back. The stitching is linen and the patch is made of fabric (not leather). Obviously these jeans are still in wearable condition and have a lot of nice distress marks that I’m ...

There’s something wonderful about Japanese service. On the bustling island, it is said that the customer is King, and you really begin to feel it when some minimum wage server sprints from the kitchen to your table just to shave three seconds off your wait time. In Japan, everyone is working like hell for everyone else, and they always seem to find ways to serve the customer better. So when I s...

Ever wondered how distressed denim is made? Yea, me neither. So it came as a bit of a surprise to learn that Levi’s doesn’t loan their jeans out to impoverished Cambodian farm laborers, or hobos in LA, to get that realistic weathered look. No. The process is performed by a crack team of denim specialists delivering all kinds of abuse to the freshly dipped cotton. It’s kind of like an S...

After 600 hours of wear, these raw selvage Evisu jeans have proven to be a massive pain to run down! Where are the totally rad distress patterns? Why don’t they feel soft like women’s underwear? You see, I wore these selvedge jeans at a laboring job, figuring it would greatly speed up the weathering process (which is the only way to get a custom distressed look); how wrong I was. Stan...

Distressed denim and high contrast wear are prominent features in this pair of jeans from design house Murder License. Chaotic sewing and severe destruction around the back pockets is sure to remind those pension collecting seniors on the bus, who may of lived through the Great Depression, that they actually had it easy back then. And that’s why you won’t give up your seat. Because st...