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Vintage Jeans Ads from India

Indian Jeans adverts from late 70s and the 80s.



You could fly 12,470 km. to new York, spend
Rs.9,076 on an air-ticket and buy a pair of
jeans for $22 to $27...
Or you could go to the Aryodaya Denim Shop and get into the most fashionable jeans anywhere in the world.
All for Rs88 to Rs.122. Now, how about that?
Damn Good jeans
2Y's
Aryodaya Denim shop


WHO NEEDS PHOREN!
Flying Machine Jeans
Made from the bluest-blooded indigo denim



It's time for
hip hugging!
Bumpty,bumpty,bump
with
WANTED Jeans
by Wings
A hit with their fit!

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