Buying jeans and fashion

[Orang Utan]

^ or dress in a tiger suit...

Quite!

 

[Mikey77]

They never have anything in my size. Besides, I have very exacting tastes.

Same here. You have to be average size to even have a chance. I suppose I stand out in the first place so there

 

[Mikey77]

So, off I goes again today up to Brent Cross. Done as everyone suggested and got the code off the £75 quid pair of jeans, Googled them and found them on some dodgy jeans site (dodgy due to the fat, hairy-belly model) for £40. I'm not sure about the postage, but that is a result in itself.

The only thing that concerns me is that the guy in the Levi's shop told me each pair is individually made and can be a slightly different fit. That means if I buy online and think they are too baggy round the arse then I'm stuck with them.

I went into Marks and found a nice pair for £30 quid. I thought they were good because of the fit, but like someone said above, loads or peeps will probably have them.

 

[milesy]

with anything you buy online, you have - by law - a 7 day change-of-mind-for-any-reason period, so don't worry about being stuck with something you don't want. and even if each pair of levi's is individually made, it will be to the same pattern - i very much doubt that there will be any noticable variation from one pair to the next. they're hardly an artisan product!!

 

[zenie]

Well, I wouldn't buy Armani or D&G jeans, but the whole idea of wearing clothes is so you can mark youself apart from everyone else innit? So it makes sense to buy more obscure jeans and not boring bloody Levis

I agree!!

My 74AM or Earl Jeans feel so much better and have lasted longer without 'chaffing' or any pilling of the fabric like a New Look pair would

 

[milesy]

7 are the most boring jeans i can think of, but then i'm surrounded by the fuckers. nearly everyone at work wears them. never been impressed by the denim - but then i like raw denim, not the shite thin stuff that 7 are made from.

 

[Mikey77]

The only advantage I can see to thin denim is you can wear them in the summer and not sweat your balls off. Having said that I don't like the feel of really thin denim.

 

[Mikey77]

TK Maxx used to be great but imo it's gone a bit shitty now. Tried to find stuff in there recently and found nothing.

Me too. Spent about 45 minutes in the Hammersmith store and left with a rucksack and sports T-shirt. Any of the decent stuff I liked did not seem exceptionally cheap. There were no Levi's jeans either, and like Primark, all the 34 waists seem to get snapped up.

 

[Cloo]

It's a bit like charity shops, I think. You have to go in a lot to find anything half decent. On the three occasions I have been in TKMaxx, I haven't found anything to buy.

It really is a lottery. It's always mostly crap, but sometimes you come in and they've had a big shipment of good skate-y, surf-y stuff come in, which is the sort of thing I've had my best buys from.

 

[gaijingirl]

I bought a pair of ksubi jeans this week marked down from £170 to £40 (although I'd never heard of them before)! And they're actually quite nice! I'm not really a shopper - but I'd heard that this designer shop was having an 80% off sale - so called in and bingo!!

Quite pleased!!

 

[zenie]

7 are the most boring jeans i can think of, but then i'm surrounded by the fuckers. nearly everyone at work wears them. never been impressed by the denim - but then i like raw denim, not the shite thin stuff that 7 are made from.

Raw denim might look good on some men but not on me

 

[milesy]

what about some women?

 

[Geri]

I would just love to get a pair of jeans that were the perfect fit, I wouldn't really care what make they were.

As it is, they are always either too short (short length) too long (normal length) and they *always* gape open at the back, showing my pants.

 

[Pie 1]

I've found Gap to be the end to my jeans woes for the last year or so. Their boot cut range seem to suit me just fine and a bonus at around £40.

 

[Badgers]

I never wear jeans any more and possibly won't ever again. Combats are the way to go

 

[J77]

I usually wait for some kind of sale or a new line to come out, hence reduction on older lines.

I am currently wearing some Diesel Quratt which were half-priced at around 70euro.

(I used to have a few pairs of Gap bootcut back in England -- but they don't have Gap over here.)