Late 1930s Levi’s “Brooks Brothers” 501

Lynn Downey on the late 30s Levi’s 501 that Michael Williams from A Continuous Lean spotted in Japan recently, “high end stores in New York did carry our products in the era of the dude ranch. The stores would sew their own labels into our clothes and they were sold to easterners, who then wore them on western dude ranches.”

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