Earlier this month, a pair of pants recovered from an 1857 shipwreck(沉船) sold for $114,000 at auction(拍卖).
本月早些时候，一条从1857年沉船中找到的裤子在拍卖会上以114,000美元的价格售出。
Experts with the auction house think they were once a pair of men’s work pants, possibly worn by a person who works underground in mines in order to obtain minerals. The original color of the fabric is unclear, but after spending more than a century in a passenger’s trunk at the bottom of the sea, the pants are now marked by black and brown. The fly(前裆开口) has five buttons.
拍卖行的专家认为它们曾经是一条男士工作裤，可能是一个在地下矿井工作以获取矿物的人穿的。这种面料的原始颜色尚不清楚，但在海底的乘客行李箱里呆了一个多世纪后，这条裤子现在被标记为黑色和棕色。苍蝇有五个按钮。
The pants likely belonged to John Dement, a merchant and ex-soldier of the Mexican-American War. He was one of the survivors from the S.S. Central America, a 280-foot ship that sank during a hurricane on its way from Panama to New York City. Several hundred passengers died in the wreck. The ship’s remains were found off the coast of North Carolina in 1988. When it sank, the S.S. Central America—also known as the “ship of gold”—was transporting thousands of pounds of gold bars, nuggets and coins found during the California Gold Rush.
这条裤子很可能是约翰·德蒙特的，他是墨西哥-美国战争的商人和前士兵。他是南卡罗来纳州的幸存者之一。中美洲，一艘280英尺长的船，在从巴拿马到纽约市的飓风中沉没。数百名乘客死于沉船事故。这艘船的遗体于1988年在北卡罗来纳州海岸被发现。当它沉没时，s.s.中美洲 -- 也被称为 “黄金之船” -- 正在运输加州淘金热期间发现的数千磅金条、金块和硬币。
Since the pants were recovered, their origins have been somewhat controversial. Auction house officials think they were an “early manufacture of work pants sold by Levi Strauss”, according to the listing page. “The five-button fly is nearly identical, if not technically identical, to Levi’s(李维斯牛仔裤) of today, inclusive of the exact style, shape and size of the buttons themselves,” they write. “We do not believe this to be a coincidence.” However, Levi Strauss made its first official pair of jeans in 1873, a full 16 years after the S.S. Central America sank to the bottom of the ocean.
自从裤子被找回后，它们的起源就有些争议了。根据上市页面，拍卖行官员认为它们是 “李维·施特劳斯出售的工作裤的早期制造商”。他们写道: “五个按钮的飞行与今天的李维斯几乎相同，如果不是技术上相同的话，包括按钮本身的确切样式、形状和大小。”“我们不认为这是巧合。” 然而，李维·施特劳斯在1873年制作了它的第一条官方牛仔裤，距离s.s整整16年。中美洲沉入海底。
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