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[Oaktree]

I think this one sentence sums of the whole debate, perfectly. Your parents or grandparents wouldn't have udnerstood stone washing, to make the jeans look used, and you don't understand today's kids holes in jeans. If that isn't a great demonstration of generational gap...

I totally get stonewashing to soften them. Hated getting new jeans as a kid...took 6 months before you could bend your legs in them!
I have a friend who to this day won't wear jeans, he hated the stiffness of new ones so much when he was growing up.

 

[bigtiller]

I totally get stonewashing to soften them. Hated getting new jeans as a kid...took 6 months before you could bend your legs in them!
I have a friend who to this day won't wear jeans, he hated the stiffness of new ones so much when he was growing up.

Maybe that was my kids problem....
He went off to elementary (5th ?) grade school one morning wearing a new pair of OshKosh jeans with a double thickness layer in the knees.

He came home with a 3" scissor cut across each knee.
I scolded and grounded him and then patched them up.

He was mad at me for a few days.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Maybe it's different in your part of the world, but most of those "fuel savings" gimmicks are not as good a deal as they seem.

The only fuel savings I've seen that are worth much are at Irving, for every 50 gal. you get 10¢/gal off one fill-up. They occasionally have online games where you can get discounts as well. Again, they're one-shot deals. Their prices are generally on competitive, and their stations are everywhere so it makes it worth it.
There's a Vt./N.Y. supermarket chain (Price Chopper) that has "loyalty cards" that enable you to get the advertised sale price on select items each week, purchases also accumulate points toward (again, one shot) fuel discount. Trouble is, they're only good at Sunoco stations, which are (1) not very common around here and (2) generally have prices that are 7-8¢ higher than everyone else. Some deal. And their grocery prices are on the high side.
Give me a store with every day low price, not gimmicks any day of the week.

I shop at Price Chopper with the Advantage card. Sunoco across the street, Still, it is better if I use my points at PC, 100 points equals $1 off vs 100 points equals .05 per gallon. My tuck hold less than 20 gals, so I use the points for saving at store.
And the company that owns the Sunoco, has its own reward system, called Bees Knees program, buy 50 gals, get .10 per gallon. They are all over VT, NH, Ma and CT

 

[WinterDeere]

They claimed they went an entire semester without toilet paper... After doing their business they would jump into the shower.

So, everything that would normally end up on the toilet paper was being rinsed onto their shower floor. Lovely. Not a place I'd want to grab a shower.

I totally get stonewashing to soften them. Hated getting new jeans as a kid...took 6 months before you could bend your legs in them!

lol... that brings back memories! My mom would never buy us Levi or Lee's when young, we wore thru jeans too fast, and those were expensive. We used to get those crazy-stiff Toughskins jeans from Sears, instead. I hated those pants.

 

[ultrarunner]

I have a Pendleton sport coat I like and brought with me the 6 months I was working overseas…

It’s the kind with the elbow patch which is a style.

My co-workers notice and the wife of one was a very good dress maker that could make anything… she said such a nice coat and asked what I did to wear out the elbows…?

I said it’s a common style in America and she shook her head…

 

[Jstpssng]

We used to get those crazy-stiff Toughskins jeans from Sears, instead. I hated those pants

At least you had Sears. We had to wear KMart's brand. Not that I blame my mother... it seems like the first thing I'd do with a new pair pf jeans is put a hole in the knee. She'd invariably patch them and it would be the only one I put in them.

I memtioned that at a family gathering last summer. The very next day I atepped into the bushes to get rid of some coffee... and found barbed wire which tore a big hole in the knee of a 2 week old pair pf Levis.

 

[WinterDeere]

At least you had Sears. We had to wear KMart's brand. Not that I blame my mother... it seems like the first thing I'd do with a new pair pf jeans is put a hole in the knee. She'd invariably patch them and it would be the only one I put in them.

I remember my mom ironing those patches to the inside of my jeans, because that looked more acceptable than outside, I guess. But it was like having a stiff and scratchy bit of fiberglass board against a delicate knee at age 4.

 

[grsthegreat]

So, everything that would normally end up on the toilet paper was being rinsed onto their shower floor. Lovely. Not a place I'd want to grab a shower.


lol... that brings back memories! My mom would never buy us Levi or Lee's when young, we wore thru jeans too fast, and those were expensive. We used to get those crazy-stiff Toughskins jeans from Sears, instead. I hated those pants.

My mom once bought me some store brand jeans from Kmart for school use only. She was so proud of the low cost. I had to go to Jr. High with pants that had no pockets. I made sure to destroy these pants as fast as possible.

 

[grsthegreat]

I found some nice stretchy jeans at Costco last year. Seemed to hold up real well in my generator service calls, which is hard on clothes. They had them on sale for $13.

I bought 2 dozen pairs over a few trips into store during sale.

 

[ponytug]

As a kid, I remember hating those new jeans, and especially the iron on patches, as like @Jstpssng, I seemed to have a tendency to put a hole in one knee. The stiff jeans and patches felt to me like wearing a tin man costume. I'm sure I was vocal about it, but I have no recollection of that officer. None.

All the best,

Peter

 

[WinterDeere]

I don't wear denim jeans for work anymore, I switched over to Dickie's carpenter jeans years ago, which are much more durable, and have better pockets:

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[grsthegreat]

Me, im an old farmer at heart. I wear jeans everywhere. That, and carhart pocket t shirts.

I have work sets and sunday go to meeting sets of these things. Dont even own a suit and tie any more.

 

[WinterDeere]

What I'm always hunting for are those solid-color flannel shirts that are as thick and heavy as cardboard. If you've ever owned one, you know what I mean, they make "regular" flannel shirts feel like a woman's nighty by comparison.

You used to be able to buy them from Land's End and Eddie Bauer in the 1990's, when both were still doing actual outfitter's gear. I think I also once had one from American Eagle, probably ca.2000. I've tried ordering the same from Carhartt and Dickies, and they do make some decent (broadcloth?) shirts, but nothing as durable or simultaneously breatheable and warm, as those old heavy flannel shirts.

I have two that are so heavily-woven, they will almost stand up on their own without a hanger, when they come off the air-drying line. Wish I could find more to buy, as those I own are pretty threadbare in the elbows and collars.

 

[Carl_NH]

[QUOTE="WinterDeere, post: 7209924, member: 122918"

Like Jstpssing, I've thrown away a fortune in ripped jeans. I'll wear jeans with holes in them, but until until the hole gets big enough for my knee or underwear to poke out, then they go in the trash.
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I've got 10+ pairs of Levis 501s of various age stages, and only 4 have no holes. The rest are in various stages of rippage - ones with 1-2" holes are nicely broken in, and 2-3" tears are the norm and they are the most comfortable, then some with the knees blown out will become shorts.

 

[WinterDeere]

I've got 10+ pairs of Levis 501s of various age stages, and only 4 have no holes. The rest are in various stages of rippage - ones with 1-2" holes are nicely broken in, and 2-3" tears are the norm and they are the most comfortable, then some with the knees blown out will become shorts.

Same system here, but in 505's, since I never liked button flies.

For a guy who's always busy scrambling around the shop or trying to finish one more thing at the desk before finally running to the bathroom at the last possible moment, the 10 extra seconds that button fly on the 501's requires could be the difference between getting back to work and disaster!

 

[ultrarunner]

I remember a few years back tasked to find iron on patches and the sales clerks didn’t have a clue.

My favorite Carhart workshirts were discontinued a couple years back and I wrote receiving the response they are not coming back… similar to Sears and JC Penny worksites… the tall size fit perfect with room to move.

 

[Carl_NH]

Winter Deere, you are correct, I have Levis 505's (can't deal with the button down fly either) and wear out the right knee 2x vs the left knee. That's Kubota orange from when I was touching up the snow plow last year.

 

[Jstpssng]

What I'm always hunting for are those solid-color flannel shirts that are as thick and heavy as cardboard. If you've ever owned one, you know what I mean, they make "regular" flannel shirts feel like a woman's nighty by comparison

You're not looking for the right thing. Try searching for "Chamois shirt" and you will get all sorts of hits.

 

[Carl_NH]

Following this thread intent, I had 6 pair of Levis's 505's still good, but holes in the knees. So I went to the local laundry/seamstress, an asian lady, and asked her to patch up my blown out jeans knees.

Even offered up a pair for the patches, and she replied, it will cost you more for me to patch these than you can buy new. So I asked "how much", she said 30-45 minutes and $40-50 estimate each,

So I bought new ones, but this is not the way we did things when I grew up, it was fix and repair, but those times are gone it seems

 

[Hay Dude]

Me, im an old farmer at heart. I wear jeans everywhere. That, and carhart pocket t shirts.

I have work sets and sunday go to meeting sets of these things. Dont even own a suit and tie any more.

Thats funny. I’m a middle-aged farmer, yet almost never wear/wore jeans.
I think thats more of a hollywood stereotype than reality.
Most of us here in “coastal PA” wear canvas or duck “dickies/carhartt ” type work pants.
Maybe shorts when stupid hot..