On Oct. 1, in a remote RV park in northern New Mexico, a pair of excavated Levi’s jeans from the 1880s sold at auction for $76,000. The buyer? A 23-year-old from San Diego.⁠ ⁠ “I’m still kind of bewildered, just surprised in myself for even purchasing them,” said Kyle Haupert, who walked away with the jeans, during an interview a few days after the auction closed. ⁠ ⁠ The bid makes the pair of vintage jeans one of the priciest ever sold. Mr. Haupert, a vintage clothing dealer, put up 90 percent of the winning bid, while the remaining 10 was kicked in by Zip Stevenson, an elder statesman of the vintage market who has run the Los Angeles shop Denim Doctors since 1994. ⁠ ⁠ Including the buyer’s premium, the pair paid $87,400 total for the jeans. Read more at the link in bio. (🖊️: @jacobwgallagher, 📷️: @ziphtc)