Best cheap blue jeans.

[LC '92]

I find it irksome paying $25.00 for good blue jeans and additionally irksome when they shrink way past their listed size and I wind up with jeans that are too small. Throw in the different cuts, styles, fabrics, and manufacturers and I can never get the same ones twice. I wore Wranglers for years but they too have so many types now I can never find the same ones again.

While at Sam's Club last year I found some of their house brand blue jeans called Members Mark. I bought a pair to try them out and found them to be a very good buy. I now have 8 pairs of them and they are easily as durable and nice looking as the best Wranglers I have ever had. They are made in Mexico and priced at $14.95.

The size listed is the size that they are and they don't shrink. Sam's doesn't always have the popular sizes in stock, so I check for mine each time I go there.

If you want good blue jeans and are not hung up on brand names, you may want to give Members Mark a try.

 

[Bird]

There's so many different brands of everything now-a-days that you can't keep up with it. Sixty years ago, my mother worked in a blue jean factory in Oklahoma City for a short time. Back then, she said they made all the jeans the same, but sewed different labels in them so some name brand jeans sold for a lot more than others. I'm sure much of that is still done, but also that there are a lot of differences in some brands now.

 

[MFL]

Bird, you're probably right that the practice of re-branding is still done, but unfortunately I think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody that still does it in this country! Isn't is ironic that one of the greatest and most copied symbols of America in the 20th century is almost exclusively made overseas now!?!

Anyway, my favorite cheapies are the house brand at TSC. Well made, easy on the wallet, and comfortable for those of us with more years behind than in front.

 

[Birdhunter1]

I've found for size if you get jeans from an Old navy store they are pretty accurate fit onme. I wear a 38 and if I grab a 38 from the rack it fits everytime. Very godo prices on them too, I'd say $15 and under on most of them.
Also I've had great results with Carharrt jeans too. a bit more pricy but they seem to not tear as easy, they don't rip out on me in places where most will rip out (like the crotch) and they don't get threadworn near as quick. I've had some for 45 years before I finally get rid of them because they are so tattered.
A guy I work with gets Army surplus BDU pants for workwear around his place. Lots of pcokets, comfy and they hold up well.

 

[NSBound]

Is it safe to have posts from BIRD and BIRDHUNTER1 in the same thread???

 

[Bird]

Is it safe to have posts from BIRD and BIRDHUNTER1 in the same thread???

 

[RoyJackson]

For working, what ever Good Will or the Salvation Army has that will fit..

You'd be amazed at some of the stuff folks donate.

 

[bamatoolmaker]

For working, what ever Good Will or the Salvation Army has that will fit..

You'd be amazed at some of the stuff folks donate.

I agree local thrift stores sell levi's for $2.50 a pair

 

[jinman]

I shop at Sam's often and find the Member's Mark brands to be a quality product. At Wal*Mart, they have the "Faded Glory" brand of jeans and I don't care for their quality due to my experience that they will rip fairly easily in the middle of the material, not at the seams. I don't have that problem with the Member's Mark brand.

I also like the Levi's carpenter style loose fit jeans because they are strong but lightweight with some "grow room" in all the right places.


Bird: If I were to see you in anything but a jumpsuit, I don't think I'd recognize you. Dickies should let you make a commercial for them.

 

[Bird]

Bird: If I were to see you in anything but a jumpsuit, I don't think I'd recognize you. Dickies should let you make a commercial for them.

Yep, Jim, I started wearing jumpsuits in 1971 quite often. And the last few years, I seldom wear anything else. They're just the most comfortable thing I've found.

 

[Egon]

Were not those the standard wear of RV'ers at one time?

 

[Bird]

Were not those the standard wear of RV'ers at one time?

Could be, Egon, and being the clothes horse that I am, I'd only buy one color if my wife didn't insist on me buying at least a couple of colors.

 

[RobertN]

I find it irksome paying $25.00 for good blue jeans and additionally irksome when they shrink way past their listed size and I wind up with jeans that are too small. Throw in the different cuts, styles, fabrics, and manufacturers and I can never get the same ones twice. I wore Wranglers for years but they too have so many types now I can never find the same ones again.

I have found a couple things... Levi's quality aint the same as it used to be. the cloth is not as sturdy. They ae more style now, than substantial pants.

Wranglers last long than Levi's and use sturdy fabric.

The best place to shop is a good clothes or western store. In Folsom, Ca, we have Handley's Western Wear. They have been in town since the 1950's. They carry the good stuff, and consistently have it. Walmart, Target, etc have some ok jeans, but not as consistent as the local independants. The independats are a little more on price, but when they have what you want, a couple dollars a pair is not a bad price to pay. I'm more than happy to support the local ownedMom, Pop, Gandma, Grandpa, and Cousins shop when they carry good stuff.

One that I have found on line that is pretty tough, is "Duluth Trading" fire hose pants. They claim they are made of the same stuff as single jacket wildland hose. I have a pair; they have stood up to some tough work.

 

[WhyNot]

I've found for size if you get jeans from an Old navy store they are pretty accurate fit onme. I wear a 38 and if I grab a 38 from the rack it fits everytime. Very godo prices on them too, I'd say $15 and under on most of them.

Old Navy is all I buy also but, I have recently made the switch from their jeans to their cargo pants. Their plain t-shirts are nice also and cheap at around $5 on sale. I splurged and bought some L.L. Bean jeans last winter and they were about the worst fitting jeans I ever bought.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evenin LC,
Just a little trick I learned ! I have a reversible woodworking clamp that I put inside the waste of the jeans that have shrunk, get the waste area good and wet and with the jeans zipped up and buttoned start to expand the clamp until they start to stretch. After they dry I have gotten a good inch and sometimes more, and they are good to go !

 

[hitekcountry]

Now that I'm retired and working on home projects all the time, I'm not about to work in an expensive pair of Levis. I've been buying the Costco house brand Kirkland blue jeans. They're priced right and hold up well for me.

You might be a red neck if ironing your blue jeans turns them into formal attire.

 

[crbr]

Now that I'm retired and working on home projects all the time, I'm not about to work in an expensive pair of Levis. I've been buying the Costco house brand Kirkland blue jeans. They're priced right and hold up well for me.

You might be a red neck if ironing your blue jeans turns them into formal attire.

May be, but a nice crease in a pair of girl-ladened jeans sure look great! Each to their own....

Wrinkled clothes are the chosen style of Jeff-Foxworthy...

 

[Bird]

How many of you are old enough to remember when blue jeans were always ironed, and of course they were hung on the line to dry because if clothes dryers had been invented by the late '40s, we never heard about it. However, sometime in the late '40s we did obtain a great invention; metal frames that were inserted into each blue jean leg from the top and then expanded to hold the legs straight and smooth while they were hanging on the line to dry. That sure did cut down on ironing time.

 

[RoyJackson]

How many of you are old enough to remember when blue jeans were always ironed, and of course they were hung on the line to dry because if clothes dryers had been invented by the late '40s, we never heard about it. However, sometime in the late '40s we did obtain a great invention; metal frames that were inserted into each blue jean leg from the top and then expanded to hold the legs straight and smooth while they were hanging on the line to dry. That sure did cut down on ironing time.

Before my time, Bird!

 

[jbrumberg]

Before my time, Bird!

Roy- not by much ! I remember those metal pant stretching thingies, but I did not believe in them. I briefly, only briefly ironed my blue jeans (Like once!). I am the original "Mr Wrinkle" . Jay