JEANS

I wore my busted up 531s into the store just now and the (also curvy) saleswoman was like "SHOW ME THOSE, WHAT??"

i am serios about my selvedge but the area around the inner thigh / back crotch is really worn, they r patched so nothing shows but i worry that it is still bad form to wear them

― 乒乓, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this just mean u r hardcore

dayo, all my jeans are patched, I have a drawer full of 6 pairs of jeans, 5 of which have blown-out thighs patched with varying materials/levels of success. I will now rotate out the saddest pair.

alright that's all the validation i need ... im gonna go for it

Levis drive me crazy with their changing styles all the time. Jeans shopping is so fraught! I wish I enjoyed it more but it stresses me out like swimwear shopping

I half-solved my Levi's shopping problem by not even trying to find anything myself. I grab the first female sales associate I find on my way in the door and pull up my shirt to show whatever Levi's I'm wearing and say, "Replace these. Bring me your shortest offerings" and we go from there.

ooh I like it!

Now that they have this whole Demi/Bold curve thing going, I say, bring me your shortest, curviest offerings. Today the cashier who rang me up called me her Bold sister. Retail is cool on rainy days when the staff are super bored.

fwiw, I like AG stevies.

The bolder-than-bold cut is the SUPREME cut iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqSG1Rks-I

you can trade in yr old apcs

that is so weird, dude

Can someone suggest a good pair of jeans for under, say, $120?

I like these fwiw but they're twice my budget.

http://i.imgur.com/WgmbWbb.jpg

there are no good jeans for less than $150

also what are those jeans you just posted a picture of

tell us about your size, too

those are Momotaros, got the image off blueowl.us. I'm 32 X 32

I like raw selvedge but maybe you're right about the price.

as an aside one of my favorite pairs ever was Paper Denim & Cloth about 10 years ago. Now I see their product in TJ Maxx and that shit is hideous. JEAN SELLOUTS, man.

some stuff on sale http://needsupply.com/mens/sale/denim

Unbranded has some raw selvedge for around $80.

are your thighs hefty, regular or slim?

i recall as a child the jeans my mom would buy me from fedco were marked hefty, regular, slim. i think they might have been wranglers.

r u husky, does yr mom sew yr initials into yr underwear

oh RIGHT, it was "husky" not "hefty"

there are no good jeans for less than $150

― the late great, Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol are you for real rn

yes

maybe i should say no good new jeans

I like these APC's o Ebay asking $119, NWT

http://ow.ly/t7jTK

pietie standards are full on skinny jeans fwiw, if youre into that get em for sure apcs are sick bro

what's the verdict on the selvedge jeans uniqlo have replaced the old made-in-japan line with?

http://www.uniqlo.com/us/store/lifewear/men-regular-fit-straight-jeans-selvedge/091103-69-038?ref=mens-clothing%2Fmens-bottoms%2Fmens-jeans
http://www.uniqlo.com/us/store/lifewear/men-slim-fit-straight-jeans-selvedge/124313-69-030?ref=mens-clothing%2Fmens-bottoms%2Fmens-jeans

are your thighs hefty, regular or slim?

― the late great, Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:17 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

regular. i'm probably pushing it a little for skinny jeans. also i have a beer belly but i'm going to work that off any day now

petit standard is on the slim side

but yeah, if i were you i would try to find some lightly worn $200-$300 jeans (i would look for LVCs) for around $100 on ebay

that's probably a better investment than new $80 jeans

thx

lol @ "hefty"!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEVIS-VINTAGE-LVC-USA-501Z-XX-Jeans-Big-E-Red-Selvedge-size-32-x-34-/271385487287?pt=US_CSA_MC_Jeans&hash=item3f2fd5e7b7

This basic pair of uniqlo black jeans has been super durable and I question whether they are really made of cotton or not

have any of you ever done the shrink to fit thing? any tips? does it work? for levi's, i'm thinking

i have a few pairs of 501s but damn if the fabric is not up to the role of being a jean. and/or the dimensions are just subtly off for my body. they fit just fine but the panels around each "quadrant" of the intersected seams at the crotch wear out in like less than a year. i've had a couple repaired and they still get shredded.

i feel like if i did this cowboy alchemy fit process, they wouldn't be stressed in this spot and would last longer. true? bullshit?

imo u shd try it an report back

one wld think if u got the raw levis they wld at least last longer due to not being treated/stone washed/whatever

personally ive just accepted that levis wear out fast, like they cost 1/3rd as much as some fancy selvedge and last one third as long its all part of the cycle of birth death and renewal

Reinforce at-risk areas with suede patches imo.

wld u do that prolifically inside the denim or cover the holes with it or what?

personally ive just accepted that levis wear out fast, like they cost 1/3rd as much as some fancy selvedge and last one third as long its all part of the cycle of birth death and renewal

― lag∞n, Friday, March 27, 2015 3:33 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

after just buying some levi's and paying only $30/pair on average this is how i feel too, it won't be a huge deal if need to buy another pair in a year or two

I think the fashion forward thing to do is have it pre-emptively applied on top of the denim so the suede wears out first. Of course I never do this, instead I put the leather inside after there's already a hole, and machine-applique it into place.

yeah i dont want no suede patches on the outside of my jeans

Buy the heaviest weight denim you can find, like 20+ ounce

Then buy a wheelchair or segway to transport yourself around because you won't be able to move your legs

tbh goole i was strongly considering doing the levis shrink-to-fit 501s and even ordered a pair but i ended up with a few pairs of their other styles that fit me great immediately. i didn't trust the sizing estimates for buying STF 501s and didn't want to waste the money with a pair that didn't fit right after going through a whole tedious process.

lots of myths imo around "the perfect jean" that requires doing all kinds of silly things to get "the perfect fit" on a pair that "will last forever", idk maybe i just got lucky w/ the off-the-shelf pairs of the other levis or maybe they don't really fit me well and i'm just ignorant. anyways it just didn't seem worth the trouble. i am definitely not a jeans connoisseur though

I think my permanent jean routine is going to Uniqlo or H&M and buying a pair that I will about 5 or 6 days out of the week until a hole develops in the bottom of my back pocket where the corner of my wallet is.

All of my jeans get holes here first :-/