got a couple of pairs of CK jeans for £20 each 10 years ago. Still fine, wearing them today. I do look like some kind of substitute teacher though, fashion is not a top priority for me, all I need is elbow patches

 

I've had them rip under the crotch..

 

"Ooh, right into the buckle! That's gotta hurt, Gene!!!"

 

The thing that wears out on mine is the pockets and it pisses me off as I'm left with the back pockets and keep forgetting about holes in the front pockets until change is running down your leg

 

My Dad does the same, do you ram your keys and stuff into your pockets? As I've never worn a pocket through

 

I recenly bought a couple of (extra lardy sized) Wranglers from TKMax the other day and am very happy (as in, they are not the normal super-slim-fit that is all you can get in your normal fashion store).

IMHO way better than Levis, who bowed down to the great god of cheapness (in quality) many years ago .

mb

 

Cant say the Levis I bought were low quality. I would say they have their price/quality ratio about right.

 

g star for me, last for years and very comfy. my only gripe are button fly's. whats wrong with a good old zip? (yes, they can be very dangerous to your tackle) but if handled carefully they are much better than buttons. quick access in emergencies is whats needed lol. come to think of it, i want jeans with a safe velcro fly!!!

 

I've got diesel (zathan I think) from at least 8 years ago maybe longer and I paid £120 then and they're still like new apart from the bottoms fraying, but I know they have changed the place of manufacture now and the quality is ****e, the material, sizing and price... I wouldn't buy them now, I like g star and firetrap at the mo

 

I have never given that a thought but I must??
The pocket my keys go in never wears out is the one I always put my change in that does so more times putting my hand in and out of my pocket.

 

I like em tight to show off my moose's knuckle

 

I have to go on fit not price, so when I find some that fit right I usually buy a couple of pairs, i've got big legs and can't be doing with tackle stranglers, if I can't bend down or kick to head height the're no good, which rules out a lot of the top brands like 501 which I can't get much above my knees in a 34"waist.

I'm sat here in a pair of primark jeans that cost a tenner and are 3yrs old, my fancy jeans are Gant and my current smart casual are Lee Cooper, Gant can be a bit pricey but I don't wear them much so doesn't matter, the Lee Cooper are quite good and not silly money.

Just to add, I don't care what they cost as I don't buy them very often so not a big issue.

 

I bought some Levi 501's from Costco and I thought the fit on the Levi's was terrible baggy as **** after a wear or two and the back pockets were nearly on the back of my knees. There was nothing good about these jeans.

 

Has anyone had a bash at shrinking a pair of shrink-to-fit 501s? Think I'm going to try a pair soon. Wearing regular 501s at the moment and quite like the fit. I guess everyone's different.

 

Didn't shrink to fit go out in the late 60's/early 70's?

 

Has anyone faced problem with Levi's fastening buttons? Once that button has gone, whole jean is worthless. Ex-mister T. is a Levi's fan. I had to throw his 501s away because when he overdid with his beer, his belly would expand, and his button would go pop. There was no way I could repair it, because those buttons are like built-in; studded with the button gun, I think. They leave a hole on the fabric, so even if I'd bought a button gun to fix them, the job would have been a bodged one. They all had to go to Oxfam for recycling.

 

I think that's most jeans in general. I think they were designed that way as the miners in the Wild West couldn't sew

 

Hm. Studded buttons are not good, but they fasten well as long as they are there.

 

Studded buttons are better than a zip. Buttoning your foreskin is preferable to zipping it!

 

Correct. More so if you are into wearing your undies underneath.

 

Commando FTW.

 

 

I hate button fly with a passion.

You buy worn jeans

 

I have always found that a pair of reaper trousers from Mole Valley Farmers are very comfortable, hard wearing, and look very respectable too at a very reasonable price.

Les

 

Old fart^^

 

no, I remember doing the whole shrink to fit malarkey with 501 Red Tab's in the 80's, many times, --- they came in the original unwashed denim and where stiff as fvck and enormous before washing or sitting in a hot bath!!!

The jeans had to have the correct white with red lines marking the "inside" of the outside seam

This marking was only found on the correct imported Jeans from the Levis factory in San Francisco -- using original production process

this all changed in the early 90's I think, when the Levis factory stopped using the original process/machinery

 

for reference



and yes quite agree, a very gay thread

 

Been buying a lot of mish mash and g star stuff recently. The g Starr stuf is ****e, have a jacket I payed best part of £150 for and after 6 months its faded badly.

The mish mash jeans are fantastic quality though, and shameless plug here I have 10 pairs brand new with tags on eBay for 12.99 a pair there £50 brand new

 

<chuckles> Howies are about as poncy as it gets; brain child of a couple of marketing types desperate to break into alternative lifestyle\sports. They sponsored a few of my friends (bmx, skate and mountain bike types...), when they first started in the late 90's. Marketing is ace though and easy to get sucked into if you don't know their history

 

I'm sure there was a bit about these being appraised on that Storage Wars program.

One of the chaps bidding won a lockup and it had several pairs of these in it. Years old with that particular stitching/marking and worth upwards of $500-600 a pair.