JEANS

laurel, please explain this 'bias cut cotton twill' thing and how to spot it, since i know nothing about fabric.

Uh. Denim is a twill. It stretches "on the bias" that is, around your round parts (as do many other woven fabrics to some degree, the gradual stretch and fiber "memory" is just a quality of cotton in general). Which is pretty much everywhere, since jeans are constructed as flat items but have to go on non-flat bodies. You don't have to know anything about fabric! :D

Mary, I'm wearing a new pair of jeans right now that I bought on...last Thurs? One week and about 4 wearings later, they are still a little too tight but still stretching gradually. Personally, that's the tightness I want over the life of the jeans. If they stretch too much now, they'll be baggy in three months. The first few wearings are def not comfortable!

ahh ok i thought it was some kind of special fabric-cut, like a bias-cut skirt! gah, and i work in a clothing store!

I've had these jeans for a couple months. Maybe I need to distinguish between jeans that look good and jeans that are comfortable to wear around the house? Or maybe I really did buy both pairs a size too small.

virginia plain, have you worn them much since? i got a pair of levis that seemed a bit snug when i bought them and now they are totally stretched out.. but i wore them around quite a lot during the summer..

oops, xpost. i also notice maybe the darker washes are harder to stretch, my earlier pair were pretty light blue.. also i guess i bought the cheap kind of levis, i know they make a better quality style that would take longer. (had a pair like that in a beautiful dark wash that were $$$ since bought in europe, and went and gave them away for being too short.. not thinking that soon enough rolled up jeans would be back in style!! damn)

I only buy the darkest wash that isn't black, and yeah, the fabric is a little stiffer and harsher than the lighter colors, and it was DEFINITELY not cooperative last week! It's just getting kind of wearable as of today.

http://ergonomenon.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/why-tight-pants-are-a-health-risk/

I wear both pairs on the weekends, but kind of only outside the house. Inside, I change into something more comfy. The waistline can't really stretch that much though can it? Both jeans are a kind of stiff, lacking in stretch fabric.

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2008/11/at-prada-milano.html

^^^ now that is a health risk! way to go, miuccia

I'm totally old man set in his ways with jeans now. I go to the levi's store and get one pair each of 32/32 505s and 527s in whatever wash they have at the time that looks good.

Being a dude is so easy.

i wear 32/32s too, but they're a little long for me

32/32 is the 34c of the men's jeans world, isn't it. get some pants that are sized properly for you.

i have the same problem you do

i'm a 32/31

32/32 is sample size you lucky ducks. i would only shop sample sales.

i wish i was a little bit shorter i wish i was a porter i wish i had a girl with a fort i would fort her...

how do I find "sample sales"

Time Out New York

guys I just have to say, I love Gap's "long" jeans and in Canada they are about $90 a pair but I paid $45 in Michigan for them! This is when the dollar was at par, too... SO unfair :(

NEW JEANS:
http://media.kohls.com.edgesuite.net/is/image/kohls/431807?wid=230&hei=230&op_sharpen=1

I HAS THEM

I wish I had someone to buy a pair of these for.

I'll let you buy them for me. size 26.

I just scored some APC jeans from their 50% off sale today. 100 bux off. Good times.

Got a pair of dry RRL (boutique Ralph Lauren label, super-expensive Americana stuff) jeans for $65 rather than $210 retail. Japanese selvedge, etc.. I should stock up, these are dope.

those are very cool (the women's bootcut there)

i got a pair of acne jeans (hep) from sale @ revolve clothing, they're nice. although that label seems to run ridiculously small

I just scored some APC jeans from their 50% off sale today.

Wait a minute, from the back room of the store? I asked if the jeans were on sale as well and the sales girl unceremoniously guffawed at the naivety of my question.

The boy trying them on looked really good though, but he was afraid his tailor would not be able to create a good line upon hemming.

No, front room; they usually have other $210 jeans, but it's not raw denim stuff

nice work burt.

but he was afraid his tailor would not be able to create a good line upon hemming.

i'm sorry, but that sounds ridiculous. I guess the equivalent would be "i'm afraid my personal chef would not be able to boil water".

i'm all about Lucky jeans these days. i've got some online that are okay, but no jeans have ever fit me as well as the pair i got in Chicago.

Got a pair of LVC 1947s from Cultizm - ~$165 shipped from Germany to the US in about two days. Only problem is that I have no tub in which to soak them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502861.html

Denim is the infantile uniform of a nation in which entertainment frequently features childlike adults ("Seinfeld," "Two and a Half Men") and cartoons for adults ("King of the Hill"). Seventy-five percent of American "gamers" -- people who play video games -- are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote. In their undifferentiated dress, children and their childish parents become undifferentiated audiences for juvenilized movies (the six -- so far -- "Batman" adventures and "Indiana Jones and the Credit-Default Swaps," coming soon to a cineplex near you). Denim is the clerical vestment for the priesthood of all believers in democracy's catechism of leveling -- thou shalt not dress better than society's most slovenly. To do so would be to commit the sin of lookism -- of believing that appearance matters. That heresy leads to denying the universal appropriateness of everything, and then to the elitist assertion that there is good and bad taste.

wow APC jeans are exp in the US!

Just bought an awesome new pair of ACNE

"summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche."

I cut off a pair of 501s into jorts yesterday.

This is not complicated. For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don't wear it. For women, substitute Grace Kelly.

http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/g-will1.jpg

FASHION TIPZ FROM ME, GEORGE WILL

If Gene Kelly would not have worn it in Xanadu, don't wear it

]I cut off a pair of 501s into jorts yesterday.

― too many misters not enough sisters (milo z), Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:59 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

wtg dude

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for the jean experts--do clothing companies purchase fade patterns?

jeans are hard to buy when you have thunder thighs.

ctrl-f "jorts" FOUND

dyao, you're in hk no? about 5 years ago "carrot jeans"* were a pretty big regional trend there...

*relaxed seat/thighs but taper down to skinny around the calves.

this bottoms trend is now developed on the extreme end to the resurgence of harem pants (non-denim tho), ymmv.

imo: take a look at 2nd hand shops for carrot jeans?

http://images.google.com/images?q=carrot%20jeans

just ordered a bunch of levis, very pleased. their trouser jeans are really cute

thanks SS I'll have a look! xp

for the jean experts--do clothing companies purchase fade patterns?

LVC (Levi Vintage, their high-end line) reproduces the wear on vintage pairs they've purchased on different model years.

for the jean experts--do clothing companies purchase fade patterns?

― W i l l, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:18 PM (4 months ago)

styling details such as abrasions, blasting, whiskering, webbing, tacking... all are designed to specs. on the low-end, production facilities have prefab samples for examples, but on the mid- to high-end, you bring your specs at the design stage and need to be signed off on during the sample approval process.

for vintage/worn looks, absolutely... collection pieces are analyzed for their wearing. i have routinely wear tested many samples and then gave them back to the designer for analysis. i've also had a pair of original vintages borrowed for inspiration. I never accepted money for this, but then again, I was approved on buying trips to R&D competitor's garments, most of which were returned to me.

stumbled on some raw denim forums while doing some general googling. wow, these people get pretty cultish about this stuff!

think I'm gonna pick up some uniqlo selvedge denim based on SS's rec in the male clothes thread

The uniqlo selvedge denim are good every day jeans. Recommended.