Are These 165-Year-Old Shipwrecked Jeans the Ultimate Selvedge Grail?

Denim fanatics will do all sorts of things to get their hands on some high-quality blues. Remember when Carmy traded a circa-1955 Levi’s jacket for a lunch shift’s worth of beef on The Bear? He just got one-upped by one pants-minded buyer, who purchased a pair of five-button work pants, salvaged from a trunk found on the 1857 S.S. Central America after spending more than a century on the seafloor, for $114,000 at the Holabird Western Americana Collections auction this month. The steamship was headed from Panama to New York in September 1857 when it sank in a hurricane near… Read Full Article