![]() On top of that, the older generations remembered the Great Depression, which meant they hadn’t thrown away their old jeans. One of the reasons it was easier in those early days was that most sellers didn’t realise the value of the pots of gold they were sitting on. And there was an abundance of old stuff just sitting in attics and cellars ready to be scooped up for peanuts. They were known as ‘pickers’-those who travelled across the American heartland to dig out old jeans that they’d bring to the indigo craving collectors in Asia. At the time, collectors like Kenji Hirano of the Banana Boat vintage store in Tokyo had already begun importing vintage denim, which they’d hunt down the homeland of blue jeans. In the late 1970s, jeans started changing.
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