They used to be a relatively cheap label. In Northern Italy you can generally get them from factory outlets for a modest fraction of their official price in the shops. You can do that online too, basically you go on forums for fashionistas where they know all the right addresses and right people.

Yeah, I don't what's up with that whole Converse One thing Target has going on now. Very lame. Maybe some day they'll be the new Diesel and fetch hundreds. Buy em now, kids!


Actually, Target sells several cuts of Levis at pretty good prices, right around the 30 buck mark. Wranglers, too, I think.

I compared the price on their european counterpart and they still work out a hefty price.

Ugh. Too much work. I just want to be able to walk into the local store and find them on the shelf.

I thought my daugher and her friends wore them in the 90s (?). I know they always went cheap on their jeans.

Ok, I forgot that analogue guys have their own analogue ways.

Spanish SKUNKFUNK jeans. Between 50-80 bucks a pair.

These guys make nice clothing for both men and women.

sorry i momentarily disappeared, i was making breakfast

thanks for that, i'll inform her-- she loves clothes but our uneven paychecks don't always allow, ha ha ha.


no estados unidos. damn!

Ha, yes, indeed, we do.

Baggy Silvertabs 4 lyfe

When I get to 35? Bless you.

You know what, though? Pookie is absolutely right. Men over 35 should not wear jeans. And since I have always, always been happiest when I have gone against the grain, I will therefore wear jeans in spite of the best advice not to.

more people need to wear stonewash jeans. wear them proud like the east germans did circa 1988.

Worst name for a band I ever did hear.

i'm sorry-- i like pookie, but pookie is english-- and the english are a people who are subjugated by innumerable unspoken rules, regulations, ancient customs, social class codes, irrational conventions, a fear of rocking the boat, groupthink, and spankings of the bottom.

of course there is a long tradition of english eccentrics-- whatever civilization they have is thanks to those people who dared to defy the group.

whereas in america, people are free as a general rule. there are no eccentrics-- or everyone is. yeah, it might be a mess, and you need lawyers to sort any kind of dispute, because there is no common ground, and women will walk around in muumuus, and there is little social cohesion, but people are free to scratch their crotch.

when i came to new mexico i saw some dude selling mace and i asked if it was legal (in dc you can only use pepper spray). he answered "everything is legal in new mexico. if you wanna carry a chicken in your arm, you can". i would have bought the mace from him but the container was in a bit of a shitty shape. of course this was before they outlawed cockfights last year (nothing is perfect).

anyway-- that's why america kicked england's ass back to their island, and that's why you'll wear whatever you want, my gringo friend.



that's also why i came here-- so people would get their fucking noses out of my business.

just saying.

but you deserve what you got, for asking for advice on the internet. :D

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Hee hee...

And furthermore... do you think it's worth the time and effort to wrest back control of the thread?

It is interesting how this turned into an advice column about what or what not to wear. That wasn't my intention. I wanted and still want to know what your favorite jeans are, people. I don't want to know whether you think wearing them is right or wrong. Just--what do you wear? Brand? Fit? Color?

Goddammit.

DARK MOTHERFUCKING DENIM or bleached out denim. or red or black or white. no inbetweens fuckers.
skinny fit, straight fit, high waist, low waist, wide leg, bell bottoms: i wear it all with gusto.
most any brand will do provided they don't have an appalling amount of stretch material built in.

I own one pair of jeans, and that with reluctance, bought at the insistence of my girlfriend.
they all look like shit with their bullshit pre-distressed crap.