1900s Levi's Collarless Shirt with Collars

[Paul Roerich]

As good as it comes.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Circa-1910-...pt=Vintage_Men_s_Clothing&hash=item23224755e5

 

[herringbonekid]

collectors only need apply.
wearability is not an issue.

 

[Paul Roerich]

The last time this shirt's seller bought or sold anything on eBay was in March 2006. That's a long dry spell.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

It's absolutely amazing. I've been drooling over this bugger for the whole day. I'd wear this in a heartbeat … Bee A you tiful.

 

[Paul Roerich]

*My mistake*

The last time this shirt's seller sold anything on eBay was in March 2006. That's a long dry spell.

 

[Paul Roerich]

I'd like to know where he found that shirt.

 

[Paul Roerich]

My mistake *again*. The seller kindly provides it.

"I purchased this shirt from an antique store in Larned, Kansas, at least twenty years ago. It struck me at the time as "new old stock," for it was folded like a shirt would be on a store shelf, and there were at least two other shirts folded the same way. There were other vintage dry goods in this same antique store that made me think that the shop owners had acquired the remaining contents of an old business. I bought this one shirt, as it was the only one that had the Levi, Strauss & Co. label. The shirt has been hanging in my closet for the last two decades, which explains why there are some wrinkles that it did not have when I purchased it."

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Well, $4000, give or take. A reasonable price for such an unusual and once-in-a-lifetime garment. Off to a museum or a Japanese collector, nay doot.

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