Posted: 7/21/2008 7:24:58 AM EDT
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Got a pair of 550s. Love the jeans. Fit is great for CCW and even my style. Well after a few years I go buy another pair and the motherfuckers have changed the deminsions on them. The pockets are smaller and the fit tighter. Another reason to buy multiples if you find a pair of something you really like because the designers will fuck it all up for you. That is all. <Title Edit--please don't have any form of the F-word in thread titles. --tbk1> |
Yup. I hate Levi's. The only pants that fit me well are the Carhartt carpenter pants. And those are getting harder to find. I think everybody must be a fat migdet also. It seems like every time I go to find pants the only size they have is a 48 inch waist and 30 inch leg.
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I have a theory 
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lol try hang drying them.... 
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hell yea. nothing better. all i own are carhartt. wearing some right now  and the pockets hide my pf9 great
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Finding jeans that fit well is a real chore these days, especially with so-called "vanity sizing" that is becoming prevalent in men's clothing. Vanity sizing is basically specifying a size that is Y sizes smaller than the true size, so you can say that you wear a size X when you actually wear size X+Y. Example: my "true" waist size is somewhere between 30-32. I can get away with size 30 in most jeans (e.g. Lucky Brand) even though they are a bit loose. Enter APC, with "vanity sizing". I wear a size 28 (!!!) in APC Rescues, which is effectively sizing down FOUR whole sizes from my true waist. I haven't worn size 28 jeans since college but apparently I can do so again, at the ripe old age of 36. It's getting to a point where you can't just order your regular size off the Internet any more; you have to go in-store to try them on (which I hate).  PS no Levi's for me, they are anti-gun. |
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It seems all clothing sizes are screwed up these days. The mexicans just cant seem to get it right. I have medium sized t-shirts left over from years ago that are the same size as the XL ones that I wear today and I also dont have one pair of jeans that fit the same as another. |
| I have a pair of Levis that are LOOSE on me, bought about 5 years ago... I go to buy a new pair, same exact model and size, and they don't pass half of my tights... WTF... I know I packed a few pounds from 5 years ago, so I don't mind buying a bigger size, but making the same sizes WAY smaller is BS. |
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When that happens to Subnet, he just switches over to mom jeans.  |
You may be right.............last time i got levis, i took two pair from the stack.One fit just right, the other pair was tight as a virgin. |
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I've actually found that I can get about two to three years out of a pair of Wranglers, which is more than I can say for any pair of Levis that I ever had. |
Unfortunately I've started seeing it in some US-made jeans as well.  I have three pairs of US-made* Lucky Jeans. All are "vintage straight fit" (different washes, tho) so it's not a matter of a different cut. Two of them I can wear without a belt, but the other one would fall down if I tried to wear them sans belt. WTF?In addition, all three are sized 30 (waist) but they actually measure 32 in the waist. Again, WTF ... I may try Rag & Bone jeans next ... sewn in North Carolina so mebbe those guys know how to keep a consistent cut. *: not all Lucky's are US-made. |
You are all some brutal mofos! I had to laugh too! I am actually skinnier now than I was 3 years ago though. and yeah...I just grabbed them form the stack and was like, "Ye'up 550s 34, 32! Because I hate the mall. |