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The only things I ever have gotten from The Gap are colored pocket T-shirts.
So, My favorite jeans are Donna Karan City Jeans and Levi Strauss boot cut jeans.
And I'm real sorry to get Lethrneck4's hopes up too haha.
Those Arizona Jeans from JC Penney are rugged like American Eagles or Levi's. They look like hell when you first buy them, but I have a pair of black ones (medium grey now) that have lasted forever. I should dye those black again sometime.
When I was a kid, my parents dressed me in only Levi's, Lee, or Wrangler. By the time high school came around in the '80s, the designer jeans thing was the big craze, so I had Jordache, Sergio Valente, Polo, Calvin Klein, etc. It was all straight-leg shit too, with the crotch and seat cut extremely tight, even on boy's jeans.
I forget when it was, but I thnk it was the late '80s-early '90s-ish that saw the thankfully short-lived (for most people) acid-washed and stonewashed fads.
Then, the jeans got bigger per West coast trends (skater/hip-hop) and brands like Hilfiger, Mecca and JNCO became (& still are) the cool thing. Nautilus has started making their jeans like these.
Now, the trend is for jeans that are severely broken-in and aged beforehand. And the latest trend is for the shiny knees hehe. The current DKNY line sort of embraces this, but doesn't go nutso with it. The stitching is patterned after Levi's (with a 5-pocket design), even more than most other brands. And damn, they are really comfortable. If you're like me, and haven't bought any new pairs of jeans in awhile, do yourself a favor and get some of these.
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