Ugh, so hard to find a decent pair of boot cut jeans that aren’t as thin as high tech hiking pants and are comfortable.
Wait but Levis still exist! I’m wearing them. Shit is this a dream? Chat, am I real?
Just not the same quality that they used to be
You may be smoking crack my friend, Levis are considered the gold standard of jeans and they’re rock solid… and their standard line isn’t even expensive.
He’s right: I use only 501s straight, and after a year at most the fabric between the thighs is very thin if not ripped (yes, I am chubby).
On the other side, I have an old pair of jeans of unknown maker dismissed from my uncle which I use weekly for yard work: ten years in my possession, unwashable stains, destroyed sockets, but the fabric is still perfect.
Tractor supply has some of the best rated durable jeans, and they’re some of the cheapest
Too bad they are a MAGA company
Oh dang I didnt know that
Yeah but then you’re supporting insurrectionists and pedophiles.
Yes, but they have a great January 6th sale: Boys pants half off!
Costco has a more limited selection but still cheap and durable. I’ve got a couple pairs that are older than my kids.
Curious if that’s still true since you presumably bought those jeans many years ago. I only recently got Kirkland jeans and I’m skeptical they’ll last.
As my weight went up and down I had to buy more over the years and they seem just as good now as they were.
And I used them hard. Farm work, car repairs, construction, etc. and they just got better with age.
True denim doesn’t stretch so tight was very uncomfortable. Fashion wanted tight jeans so they added spandex to the denim weave. Durability was sacrificed for butt-hugging.
I would sacrifice anything for some butt-hugging. 😭
Does that mean you’ll go to the gym; stop eating so much junk food; take showers every day; keep your abode clean; go out of the house and talk to people in real life?
[jk]
I do everything except the last thing. People are scary IRL.
I get my clothes from the thrift store. Sadly, even that’s getting more expensive. Used to be could get jeans for $5 and now it’s more like $20
Those jeans are not from 100 years ago
Wrangler still makes cheap, basic jeans out of thicker denim.
Anyone else think $50 is a lot for a pair of 501s?
I have Levi’s that are about 25 years old that I still wear. (Of course, I went through a few years when I was too fat to wear them, so they just hung in the closet till I lost the weight. But, they are that old, and I do wear them now.)
I vaguely remember reading about a 501 collectors market and how vintage Levis went for a pretty penny. Im guessing it wasn’t 1995 vintage, though.
Looks longingly into closetWrangler still makes cheap, basic jeans out of thicker denim
Used to be decent, anyways. Now the price has more than doubled in the last year, and it broke after a couple months for me. I then ordered a second pair and the same thing happened. Maybe there’s a specific variant, or they sell different qualities to different markets?
When I was a teenager and used to listen to nu metal we used to be able to use my jeans as a sleeping bag - me in one leg and my girlfriend in the other leg.
JNCOs?
When I was younger if you had holes in your jeans you weren’t cool, you were poor.
