Best cheap blue jeans.

[frank29]

I got tired of paying thirty something bucks for jeans. All I now buy is the Rustler brand from Walmart. $10. Can't beat em.

The only thing they lack is a coin pocket (top of the right front pocket). That's where I used to keep my cell phone. Oh well. For ten bucks a pair I have adapted.

 

[Bird]

The only thing they lack is a coin pocket (top of the right front pocket).

Never heard it called a "coin pocket". I thought it was a watch pocket, but since no one carries a pocket watch anymore, I figured pants manufacturers decided to eliminate that pocket.

 

[WayneB]

Bird you're aging yourself (Again) so now some will want to know "What is a pocket watch", mine is setting right next to the 8 track and stack of 78's

 

[Bird]

Wayne, I never had an 8 track, I no longer have any of my old 78s (although I used to have several), and I don't still have any of the cheap pocket watches I had when I was a youngster. However, I do still have the Elgin pocket watch my grandfather said his father gave him for his 21st birthday in 1914. He carried it until his death in 1973 when I inherited it. I had an uncle who died in 1943 in Baltimore, MD. His job and title was "Chief Clerk to the Superintendent for all lines" Baltimore & Ohio railroad. In 1981, I inherited the gold Hamilton he was carrying at the time of his death. But a couple of years ago, I donated that watch, along with a lot of documents, to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum when I learned of the museum's existence.

 

[mjarrels]

It's a FOB... I have my dads gold watch that he received at retirement from Merck... nothing much more than getting kicked out the door now when you retire!

mark

 

[cp1969]

I no longer have any of my old 78s (although I used to have several),

Nor do we. Ours fell victim to an idiot boy with a new-to-him .410 gauge shotgun that just had to be tried out on flying targets. With Mother's approval, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrews Sisters, Gene Autry, and countless others served as high dollar substitutes for 2 cent clay pigeons.

I am that idiot.

Back on topic: I was wearing blue jeans at the time, probably Levi's.

 

[frank29]

Never heard it called a "coin pocket". I thought it was a watch pocket........

My bad. I'm sure you're correct. I didn't even think it through when I used the term "coin pocket"; I just used terminolgy that fits my little micro world.

Eons ago (before cell phones and when pay phones were all ten cents) I religously kept several dimes in my "coin pocket".

 

[hudlow]

I worked for a manufacturer of the finest denim in the US for many years. We mostly made the denim for the Levi's 501 jeans. Now it's being made south of here....

Anyway I know that a lot of your higher end jeans manufacturers search for the absolute cheapest denim they can buy to make their jeans and affix a popular name brand to them. Hilfiger is a name that comes to mind immediately. I think Wal Mart is now selling a line of Levis which are assembled in Mexico but the denim is made in the U.S.

As much as I love jeans and have worn them for years I find I'd rather wear pants made from the "khaki" type material for working in like the Dickies etc.

They are cheaper, cooler, roomier and seem to clean up easier than denim jeans. They also seem to stay up where they belong better since I have come down with the "noassatall" syndrome.

hud

 

[BTDT]

I think all the brands listed can be found cheap, at your local Goodwill or Salvation Army surplus store. Some good as new.

 

[weldingisfun]

Unless I missed it, no on mentioned Dickies, I can usually get two years wear out of a pair. The cost runs between $12 to $15, depending upon where you but them.