Levis 505 Jeans

[oosik]

Last time I put my jeans on I noticed a change also. The button would no longer fit in the button hole and the zipper wouldn't zip up!!! I've gone completely to Duluth Trading - firehouse pants. They wear forever and as I found out recently will stop an angry chain saw - I still got cut but did not loose a leg.

 

[JDgreen227]

I have always had a really difficult time finding jeans that fit because my ideal waist is a 35...something hard to find in most brands. Have not purchased a pair of Levis for twenty years because you pay a huge premium for the name. IMO the best jean for the buck are Wranglers. BTW, it's not a surprise that any product gets more cheaply made these days...my GF recently purchased some new shoes at a DSW store, she told me they cost about $60 a pair. Fricking insane...a few square inches of leather, the rest manmade materials and they were imported. Know what baffles me? Imported clothing and shoes, etc are made with dirt-cheap labor, so why are so they so expensive?

 

[Tollster]

Brand loyalty, what's that?

 

[firedog]

Common practice today. Make it lighter, thinner, shorter, smaller, etc.

Yep. They just keep making clothes smaller and smaller.

 

[jlgurr]

DirecTV has costs other than what they pay providers, e.g., labor. It's not always in pursuit of profit, which seems to be a popular pejorative, that appears to make some people feel better. I often wonder if these same people walk into their local store and accuse the local owner of the same 'evil motive'. Profit is what keeps paying the bills. To the consumer, why a company raises prices is irrelevant, even if it could be known, instead of information-free speculation.

Yes, it's greed. Sorry but 61% increase is not reasonable for any product or service. My salary and my cost of living does not even increase that fast. If my employer didn't reduce or hold cost every year we would be out of business. We manufacture a product from raw materials that are more costly every year, our labor rates increase every year in the form of raises but yet we are still selling some of our oldest products at the same price we started with in 1998. We do it by being more productive.

All our customers pay the same price. New "subscribers" don't get our products at 50-75% off for the first year of their business either.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I haven't bought Levis for years, ever since their price went up and their quality went down. Fashion jeans have no place on the ranch. My last set of jeans were two pair of Key and one pair of Carhartt with double layer chaps on the legs. I have had them since last fall, and they are wearing well. They cost me less than $20 a pair, on sale at Coastal Farm.

 

[Red Horse]

My biggest issue with Levi-in addition to the price- is they reduced the number of belt loops-that puts a strain on the remanining ones and if you are at all active, they end up pulling out.

for those of you in No'east, I was in BJ's Wholesale last summer and bought two pairs of their Lanesboro brands. i think they were around 18 bucks- have been wearing like iron. Made in Mexico So much for Levi and their inflated price.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

I still have good luck with my Wranglers from Walmart, I've cheapened my spending over the years and hey, they wear well.

 

[Oaktree]

There Wranglers have a lot of room in the azz !

With me it's more legs/thighs. Dunno why, but Levis seem to be made for guys with really skinny legs...I have to get several waist sizes too big to even get my legs in them, much less be able to move with them on. Wranglers or Walmart-brand jeans fit just fine.

 

[Pilot]

Just bought 2 pair of jeans at Costco, $13.99 per pair. Used to get jeans from Lands End but the pockets wore out in a short time. Costco jeans the pockets last, but I suspect the pants don't last as long as some well known brands. But at $13.99 a pair, who cares?