Levi’s jeans from 1880s with racist
slogan sold at auction for $76K
Posted By: Ribicon, 10/13/2022 9:45:19 PM
A pair of well-worn 19th-century Levi’s jeans—featuring a racist slogan—has sold at an auction for $76,000. Kyle Hauper, a 23-year-old vintage clothing collector from San Diego, snapped up the rare jeans dating from the 1880s at the Durango Vintage Festivus auction in New Mexico on Oct. 1. The second-hand jeans—hailed as “the holy grail of vintage denim collecting”—were discovered inside an abandoned mineshaft several years ago and are believed to be one of the oldest known Levi’s from that era. The antique pants are even complete with a vile racist label characteristic of the times.
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News outlets nationwide hail efforts where black people are encourage to shop at black-owned stores, retail outlets (Target among them) label products made by black-owned businesses, and there's even a clothing line named FUBU, which stands for "for us, by us" (for and by black people specifically). That's not even remotely racist; in fact it's proud. But a Levi's label purportedly from the 1880s says the product is being made by White people instead of Chinese slave labor and that's vile racism.