Levi's® Made In Japan 1933 501® Jeans
Our 501® jeans from 1933 featured updates, like belt loops, and traditional details, like the classic cinch and suspender buttons. Levi's® wearers at the time would cut off the cinch right at the rivet and removed the suspender buttons, choosing not to wear their Levi’s® jeans with suspenders, like the older generation. Some Levi’s® brand retailers even kept a big pair of scissors at the cash desk to cut the cinch off for their customers.
Our 1933 501® jeans also featured the redesigned “Guarantee Ticket” on the back pocket of the jeans. Levi Strauss & Co. had trademarked the name “Levi’s®” in 1927 because any pair of denim pants were being called “Levi’s®” no matter who made them. Instead of reading, “This is a pair of them”, as seen on the original ticket from 1892, the new ticket read “This Is A Pair Of Levi’s®”. Also under the leather patch was a small white cloth label printed with the blue eagle and the letters “NRA”. This was the National Recovery Act logo, which LS&Co. was allowed to use because the company abided by the labor rules of President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration during the Depression years of the 1930s.
- A remake of our 1933 501® jeans
- Cut with a straight leg
- Made in Japan by expert artisans using traditional techniques
- 501
- Mid rise
- Straight leg
- Front rise: 12 7/8"
- Knee: 19 3/8"
- Leg opening: 18"
- Measurements based on size 32
- 100% cotton (organic)
- No Stretch (0%)
- Button fly
- 5-pocket styling
- Organic cotton
- Machine wash cold, do not bleach, tumble dry medium, hot iron if needed, do not dry clean. Wash inside out with like colors, shrinkage in wash approximately 10%
- Country of origin Japan