1880s Tag

You Just Bought LOS ANGELES —You Just Bought  Surrounded by neat stacks of perfectly pressed vintage Levi’s jeans and racks of faded blue denim jackets, Zip Stevenson sits amongst a wealth of old clothes. His classic pieces, sold at his Denim Doctors store near downtown Los Angeles, are many a long time old and fetch about $200 to $300 for a pair of jeans. But his most dear pair of denim pants are much, much older and should not at the shop. They're safely locked away. In early October, Stevenson and his bidding partner, Kyle Haupert, a San Diego vintage denim dealer, paid $76,000 for a pair of Eighties Levi’s that were being auctioned off in an RV park on the Durango Vintage...