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 23-year-old Kyle Hautner and Zip Stevenson, a veteran of the vintage denim market.
People are also reading… Stevenson has run a denim repair shop in Los Angeles for nearly three decades -- but he had never found a pair quite like this. "I needed a 'headliner' that would rival the music acts I booked. I knew these jeans would be a major draw," Eaton told CNN. While iconic of the American West, the jeans also bear witness to a dark episode in the country's history. An inside pocket is printed with the phrase"The only kind made by White Labor." The Wall Street Journal cited a Levi's spokesperson who explained that the company used this slogan after the introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the US.
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