Brands, socks, shoes. Did you ever think you'd pay $65 to $125 for fabric athletic shoes that can't take the tough stuff? 1980s they were leather. Then thick vinyl. Now paper think vinyl of fabric. Arch support is gone too.

Yes, modern fabrics are thin. Plackets and shirt pockets dwindling. Thickness? Layer it on.

Somebody's making money.

A 34 waist swims on me now. Everything has become “comfort fit”, and bags all over the place.

Bought approximately 15 pair about the same length of years ago about 15… still wearing them. Things were made better back then. Jeans were jeans not fashion pants. Store had a huge sale can’t even remember the name of the store think they were going out of business. My size 33-34 are usually some of the first gone, so I got as many as I could, never bought another pair since.

Been a long time since I bought a new pair of jeans, however.

They had the off sizes too, and lasted just as long.

But all their displays in our department stores are shuttered. Everybody buying online these days.

It's been washed many times & is still thick & warm. I wear a hoodie under it if I want to cover my head & make it really toasty. I bought it for myself one year after Christmas when I didn't get it under the tree.

With a Taylor Guitars logo on the back from the 90s. Soft. Supple. Still durable.

I know the younger gen likes the faded, ripped look but I like them dark & crisp. Once they get too faded they become project jeans & eventually cut-offs.

in which people with Levi's visited foreign countries and traded their jeans for cars.

My 13 year old son and I went on a trip to St. Petersburg Russia, and he packed all his jeans, sure he would come back with at least a Beetle. Well, that didn't happen, but boy were the tour guides happy with their tips! Four young women each with a pair of Levi's strutting around town, that's what we did with my son's Levi's.

The original Levi's had a rivet at each stress point--part of why they last so long--but after complaints from cowboys who were their original customers they removed the rivet in the crotch, where the seams all meet. The rivets got too hot when the cowboys squatted around a campfire.

(As expected).

Don’t remember what year, but they had jeans (plain denim jeans) from $140-250. I couldn’t help but ask if they sold a lot of $250 jeans when somebody came to see if I needed help.

And I think the quality of carrharts has gone off too, sadly.

denim jean garments with holes already in the fabric and/or intermingled with stretchy synthetic threads - it's also no longer about durability but tightest cheap erotic fit. I think it started with softer fabrics and techniques for softening up stiff 100% cotton, i.e., stonewashed and/or double deeper dyes.

Saw some young lass walking down the street with more skin than denim exposed on her thigh.

In fairness, I spent hours getting the fray on my home cutoff 501s to just the trendiest length when I was a teen.

The patches became trendy and were faked by manufacturers.

There is the Country Store across the street from the court house on Van Nuys Blvd and Jedlicas in Los Olivos. Be prepared for sticker shock for made in USA clothing.

I live in Alaska and the beans were three times as expensive for you guys, not like in the day when arrived back in ‘85.

Y’all are getting robbed down there.

Wild Ass jeans sold at Bailys chainsaw supply are tough I have been wearing them for about 15 years they beat any other jeans I have had the, double panel ones you can slide knee cushions into.

Sometimes they have sales and you can pick up the doubles for low 30's and single panels for mid 20's. They take about 6 wash and wears to fully break in.

Great place for chainsaw parts too.

https://www.baileysonline.com/safety-ppe-clothing/clothing/work-pants.html

Great Northern I think? Disappointed because I couldn’t find my off size, and the preponderance of jeans are still cheap imported crap. So you have to search for the good stuff, and when I find it there’s never enough selection for my size to be there.

They stock a ton of 30/30. Or 30/38 sizes though..

I now iron patches into the knees to retard the wear. And fits drive me nuts now. I'm 5-10 and weigh 165-170....same as 45 years ago, I used to wear jeans without a belt, now I use suspenders because I am constant hitching up my jeans, even when belted. One of life's mysteries.

They are over ten years old. I prefer black ones. They fade into a wonderful shade of gray, and look good at any stage of fading.

They were good stuff too.

From 70 to 72 making 1.60 an hour at Wal Mart. All us awesome chick magnets wore 501s.