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[edit] Re: listing style numbers.
This is questionable. Levis use the same style numbers to relate to different styles in different places. Also, the same numbers have been used over the years in the same place for different styles. For example, the current UK 525's are womens bootleg jeans. I have a pair of 1970's UK 525's which are mens flares with 28 inch bottoms.
I've deleted the listing of current style numbers. Anyone who wants this information can go to Levi's website.Librarylefty 10:43, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Seems the style numbers that I took out got put back in. Why do the style numbers need to be in Wikipedia. They are subject to change at any time, and they can easily be found on Levi's website. Also, I think this information is not "encyclopedic" enough to warrant inclusion in Wikipedia. Librarylefty 08:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Engineered Jeans
These are not only for sale in Asia, they are in every Levis store in Europe AFAIK. I however have no source other than visiting shops.
[edit] American Sizes
It ought to be made clear that while Levi's are routinely made for the home market in a cut and sizing scheme which could be described as generous (i.e., human-sized); those made for the foreign market (e.g., Europe) seem to be manufactured in accord with a philosophy that people with a waist size of 44 inches deserve only death, and that swift.
There are, it seems, only thin people in the rest of the world. This also applies to European tourist traps in continental USA, in which all the clothing stores (the very reason most larger Europeans go abroad in the first place) are helpfully recalibrated to suit people with advanced malnutrition. Nuttyskin 00:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History
Contrary to an advertising campaign suggesting that Levi Strauss sold his first jeans to gold miners in the California Gold Rush, where he arrived in 1853, manufacture of denim overalls only began in the 1870s.
I read before that Strauss did sell jeans, but made out of other materials, such as canvas, to miners. Later he switched to denim. So I wonder if the above excerpt is due to a misunderstanding of an editor. --Chan-Ho (Talk) 16:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
