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This jacket was made by Levi's back in the mid 1950s and it's part of the so-called "Denim family" collection. As mentioned earlier in our blog posts regarding a pair of Lady Levi's 701 Women's jeans from the 50's, this jacket tells the story of the American society after the second world war.

Copper King by Can't Bust 'Em was first made by the Neustadter Brothers during the great depression and it later become the brand they used for making jeans and jackets in the five pocket jeans style that became popular after WWll.

This model is named m/1913 for the year it was brought into service. I suspect that the jackets were used by the Swedish ground forces and intended for winter warfare!

Here is the story of the 557XX jacket, also known as the first "type 3" denim jacket made by Levi's.

This jacket is known as the M/1948 survival fur jacket and was issued as a pilot jacket by the Swedish airforce in 1948. It is made of a thick black cotton canvas fabric that is fully lined with sheepskin, white for the body and the arms and black on the collar.

The motif of the print is common on Grateful Dead merchandise and the skeleton, called "Bertha", can bee seen in a lot of different designs, for example she is often surfing or skateboarding. Here Bertha is covered in roses, perhaps one of the most recognized scenes. 

The Fire King Jade-ite is the name of a series of kitchenware that was made in USA by Anchor Hocking in mid 20th century. The kitchenware was made from Jade green opaque milk glass that was manufactured with the idea to make durable and affordable kitchenware for everyday use!

Ever since I first visited California and Nevada in 2009 to join our friend Michael Allen Harris on his search to cover the early history of denim workwear in 19th century west North America I have been wanting to make a reconstruction of a pair of the jeans found in the desert.

These kinds of jeans were made by Lee and sent out to retailers carrying the brand to be used as an in-store advertising.

The Type 3 denim jacket was first made in 1962 and named 557xx. The new, slimmer silhouette of the Levi's jacket replaced the 507xx jacket and if you walk into a store selling Levi's today you will notice that not much has changed in the way this jacket looked back in the 60s up until now

In March last year we released a book about the craft behind indigo dyeing! It's written by us, Douglas Luhanko and Kerstin Neumüller, and released...

The rivet was originally an invention that was granted a patent to a tailor called Jacob Davis and his cloth supplier Levi Strauss. The patent states an “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings" using a copper rivet.