I have memories of having jeans that lasted years and years, a good thick denim. Now when one buys a pair of jeans, they only last a matter of weeks. However, ordering a pair from USA, made in Mexico, I have a pair of heavy denim, and $30 cheaper than the rubbish we buy in Australia. Same with shoes I have to buy from the States or Europe to get wide or extra wide sizes. I don't feel at all sorry for our retailers, if they don't sell what I require.
Possum3 said
12:20 PM Dec 19, 2022
Ian; COSCO have good quality Denim Kirkland brand jeans at sensible prices - downside is you have to be a member to purchase anything there. (or go with a member)
Whenarewethere said
01:20 PM Dec 19, 2022
If you have decades old clothes, they keep going.
The more recent the clothing, the quicker if fails.
Products are designed to fail. We are in the create rubbish & landfill era.
gold dandelion said
09:57 PM Dec 19, 2022
I still buy Levis locally and don't have a problem with them lasting the journey.
Santa said
11:48 PM Dec 19, 2022
Yep, been buying Wrangler jeans from the US for over 30 years, better quality, much bigger range of sizes and much cheaper than buying in Oz, same with shirts.
iana said
11:47 AM Dec 20, 2022
Anybody noticed the short fly zips in the jeans sold in OZ, makes life awkward at the urinal.
Possum3 said
01:39 PM Dec 20, 2022
iana wrote:
Anybody noticed the short fly zips in the jeans sold in OZ, makes life awkward at the urinal.
That is because modern youth already have the waist of their trousers half way down their arse.
Southern Cruizer said
08:45 PM Dec 20, 2022
Possum3 wrote:
iana wrote:
Anybody noticed the short fly zips in the jeans sold in OZ, makes life awkward at the urinal.
That is because modern youth already have the waist of their trousers half way down their arse.
Yep Possum3, the Y generation, more arse than class
Whenarewethere said
09:04 PM Dec 20, 2022
iana wrote:
Anybody noticed the short fly zips in the jeans sold in OZ, makes life awkward at the urinal.
The solution to short painful zips.
peter67 said
09:51 AM Dec 21, 2022
Not to mention the young ladies you see walking around with their jean fronts randomly coming apart in patches, are they shopping at red dot?
smwhiskey said
10:27 AM Dec 21, 2022
peter67 wrote:
Not to mention the young ladies you see walking around with their jean fronts randomly coming apart in patches, are they shopping at red dot?
I can only laugh when there are more holes than denim and they complain about being cold.
Whenarewethere said
01:07 PM Dec 21, 2022
Are girls actually still wearing jeans?
My area it's active wear in cold weather or thong in hot weather, or thong under active wear if they can't decide.
The Belmont Bear said
01:56 PM Dec 21, 2022
As a teen in the late 60s and 70s jeans were ranked in order of coolness and which ones you bought depended on how much money you had, in order of choice they were -
1) Levis, Lee, Wrangler
2) Amco
3) Leisuremaster
You had to buy jeans that were bigger in both in the waist and the legs because they weren't pre shrunk, Levis had silver button flies and you needed to wash your new blue jeans separately for months or risk dying everything else blue. We also used to wear Wrangler or Miller western shirts and Levis, Wrangler or Lee denim jackets. I bought a Levis denim jacket a couple of years ago when we were in the States but more because it brought back memories of a mispent youth rather than as a fashion statement...
I reckon you would have needed to have been under the influence of something to get yourself caught in a button - but then a lot of people in the days of drugs, sex, rock and roll probably were
BB
Mike Harding said
02:01 PM Dec 21, 2022
When I was a young lad times were hard, there was no money and we even had to rip the holes in jeans ourselves!
86GTS said
07:52 PM Dec 21, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
When I was a young lad times were hard, there was no money and we even had to rip the holes in jeans ourselves!
I used sandpaper on my jeans just like the Aussie cricketers used on the test cricket ball.
AndyCap100 said
11:58 AM Dec 29, 2022
i know one thing looking at all this fashion fad of ripped jeans .After 47+ yrs in construction i wish i had kept every pair with actual worn out holes that i could now sell .
As for the pic of the lass with the ass like a ripe peach ,,im glad i`m still young enough (in heart anyway) to appreciate it ,so can`t complain about that fashion trend .
I have memories of having jeans that lasted years and years, a good thick denim. Now when one buys a pair of jeans, they only last a matter of weeks. However, ordering a pair from USA, made in Mexico, I have a pair of heavy denim, and $30 cheaper than the rubbish we buy in Australia. Same with shoes I have to buy from the States or Europe to get wide or extra wide sizes. I don't feel at all sorry for our retailers, if they don't sell what I require.
If you have decades old clothes, they keep going.
The more recent the clothing, the quicker if fails.
Products are designed to fail. We are in the create rubbish & landfill era.
Yep, been buying Wrangler jeans from the US for over 30 years, better quality, much bigger range of sizes and much cheaper than buying in Oz, same with shirts.
Anybody noticed the short fly zips in the jeans sold in OZ, makes life awkward at the urinal.
That is because modern youth already have the waist of their trousers half way down their arse.
Yep Possum3, the Y generation, more arse than class
I can only laugh when there are more holes than denim and they complain about being cold.
Are girls actually still wearing jeans?
My area it's active wear in cold weather or thong in hot weather, or thong under active wear if they can't decide.
As a teen in the late 60s and 70s jeans were ranked in order of coolness and which ones you bought depended on how much money you had, in order of choice they were -
1) Levis, Lee, Wrangler
2) Amco
3) Leisuremaster
You had to buy jeans that were bigger in both in the waist and the legs because they weren't pre shrunk, Levis had silver button flies and you needed to wash your new blue jeans separately for months or risk dying everything else blue. We also used to wear Wrangler or Miller western shirts and Levis, Wrangler or Lee denim jackets. I bought a Levis denim jacket a couple of years ago when we were in the States but more because it brought back memories of a mispent youth rather than as a fashion statement...
I reckon you would have needed to have been under the influence of something to get yourself caught in a button - but then a lot of people in the days of drugs, sex, rock and roll probably were
BB
When I was a young lad times were hard, there was no money and we even had to rip the holes in jeans ourselves!
I used sandpaper on my jeans just like the Aussie cricketers used on the test cricket ball.
As for the pic of the lass with the ass like a ripe peach ,,im glad i`m still young enough (in heart anyway) to appreciate it ,so can`t complain about that fashion trend .