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post #9466 of 12587
11/20/12 at 1:13am
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Originally Posted by Lasttye View Post

All Levis had the Big E label, Think the Big E was dropped around 81...When Levis got ride of their old looms..for wider ones, The Japanese bought the old looms,

no, they dropped it in 1971!!! ---->>>>
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Is the word LEVI’S® in all capital letters, or does it have a small letter “e” instead? The Tab with LEVI’S (also known as “Big E”) means that your jeans are from before 1971.
http://www.levistrauss.com/about/heritage/resources/consumers-collectors
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post #9467 of 12587
11/20/12 at 1:36am
dont know if we had this one on here before:
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(Taken from Valentine Magazine – November 1970)

Lee and Graham are both seventeen and are still at school in the East End of London. As soon as we met they informed me that this article was too late – that the old really close-cropped skinheads were a dying breed! “All the blokes are growing their hair a bit now”, Graham said. “The birds like it a bit longer…”

read the whole article over here:
http://theballroomblitz.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/people-say-were-violent-and-we-are/

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post #9468 of 12587
11/20/12 at 1:53am
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no, they dropped it in 1971!!! ---->>>>

Thanks for the link ek77.The Levi's Denim I got recently at the thrift is Little E.It doesn't have the side pockets though.So I'm guessing after 71 but before 80(maybe?)It's faded half way(my description)so wasn't worn or washed that much.  Also just realized JC(not jesus christ) Is on here,enjoyed seein you on the TV(via the internet,where I see Brit TV) I got a vintage suit from Jan.1970.Two buttons,two back vents,kinda shark skin.Will try to post photo so yooz guys can critique..Til then

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post #9469 of 12587
11/20/12 at 2:51am

You can go by the care tags at that point yankmod.

 

http://www.levisguide.com/tags/tag.html

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post #9470 of 12587
11/20/12 at 5:19am
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no, they dropped it in 1971!!! ---->>>>

Thanks for the link mate,
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post #9471 of 12587
11/20/12 at 6:14am
Jeans/Levis - from the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17101768
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post #9472 of 12587
11/20/12 at 6:53am
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Originally Posted by Ed Vaughan View Post

Definitely no coloured laces in Manchester, 1969-70.
We wanted to look smart and, dare I say it, business-like... coloured laces would have looked to incongruous and out-of-step to our lot.
Heard the old amonia tales - never witnessed anything of the sort, though.

Amonia in lemon jiffy bottles was quite a thing over Chelsea then along came distress flares ......

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post #9473 of 12587
11/20/12 at 8:14am
Bestie 1969-70

george-best-autograph.jpg
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post #9474 of 12587
11/20/12 at 8:49am
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Originally Posted by Ed Vaughan View Post

Bestie 1969-70
george-best-autograph.jpg

great pic...
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post #9475 of 12587
11/20/12 at 10:34am
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no, they dropped it in 1971!!! ---->>>>

Theres a huge cross over too, where the likes of Big E white labels were used right up until the 80's, just using old stock etc...

 

Ive seen many terrible shaped Levi Corduroy jackets but with the Big E label, and likewise, proper shaped ones with small e..

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post #9476 of 12587
11/20/12 at 11:13am
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Originally Posted by Gramps View Post

Theres a huge cross over too, where the likes of Big E white labels were used right up until the 80's, just using old stock etc...

Ive seen many terrible shaped Levi Corduroy jackets but with the Big E label, and likewise, proper shaped ones with small e..

Make you right Gramps.. Dead stock Big E Levis would still be available into the 80s, There was a shop in the Aldwych London, that had loads old dead stock Ben Shermans for years after into the 80s.
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post #9477 of 12587
11/20/12 at 11:24am
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Originally Posted by Ed Vaughan View Post

Bestie 1969-70
george-best-autograph.jpg

What a photo.The guy on the far left,pants tucked into socks,a prot-Chav?    Thanks for the link to Levi's Sirryacus,but my jacket has no care label.No biggie.

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post #9478 of 12587
11/20/12 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by Ed Vaughan View Post

Bestie 1969-70
george-best-autograph.jpg

Top quality, Ed.
Note the tiny stitched in turnups. Great.
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post #9479 of 12587
11/20/12 at 1:53pm

They look like cut offs curling up at the bottom more than tiny stitched turn ups to me. But my eyesight aint all that, nice picture though.

 

Here's my hero aged 18 at the start of 1968/69 season, he made his first appearance of 854 for Spurs in 1969 against sunderland. Nice barnet! 

 

700

 

 

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post #9480 of 12587
11/20/12 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by Lasttye View Post


Make you right Gramps.. Dead stock Big E Levis would still be available into the 80s, There was a shop in the Aldwych London, that had loads old dead stock Ben Shermans for years after into the 80s.

Not only dead stock gear Roy, but also, Levis just using up what ever they had left lying about in the factory right up until the 80's.

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