You loosen your tie, grab a scotch and whip out a slightly dog-eared copy of the Speccie, but before you can dig into the latest Rod Liddle piece about the Muslamicisation of WH Smiths, the pilot advises everyone to buckle back up – there's been a failure of the plane's hydraulic systems.
The magazine created a pricing guide for vintage jeans and included a teaser about a pair of buckle-backs that Farley had sold for $25,000 to a Japanese buyer.
In 2001, Mr. Sullivan reports in his book "Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon," the oldest known pair of Levi's in existence, a miner's pair of buckle-back waist overalls from the 1880's, went for $46,532 on eBay.
Where Americans just saw minute design alterations, the Japanese saw old-loom "selvedge" (a runner at the end of the denim cloth), the archaic big E on the Levi's tag or the XX on the leather patch and single-stitch rear pockets and frontier-style buckle-backs.
ME: I need you to buckle up back there, buddy.
With that, he buckled Richie back in the car seat.
[audio url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221754909"] ME: I need you to buckle up back there, buddy.
He turned the guitar over and said, with some merriment, "Look, they've even simulated belt-buckle marks back here".
For a large adult male buckled well back in the passenger seat, both squibs would be detonated simultaneously.
