How many jeans...?

[TheNegotiator]

I have over 30 pairs of Jeans

and about 4 tops

I love jeans

 

[EastEnder]

I have over 30 pairs of Jeans

Are you some sort of centipede???

 

[Kanda]

Right, Orang Utang... just been to Covent Garden French Connection....

2 Pairs of faded blue 34x32
2 pairs of darker blue 34x32

Both Boot cut, they were £55

 

[Roadkill]

I've no idea how many pairs of jeans I've got - far too many, since I don't throw clothes out very often. Aside from a few scruffy pairs I used to wear for bar work, I've a few pairs of reasonable (though cheap) jeans and a couple of much better pairs that I used to wear for best bt are now relegated to every day use. I've also a couple of pairs of rather better bootcut ones that I wear for going out. Oh, and a pair of rather expensive flared ones I bought for a 70s night years ago, and which still fit but never, ever get worn. Probably about 10 or 15 pairs in all.

 

[Orang Utan]

Right, Orang Utang... just been to Covent Garden French Connection....

2 Pairs of faded blue 34x32
2 pairs of darker blue 34x32

Both Boot cut, they were £55

Cheers - will pop in on Saturday and get one of each

 

[jbob]

I mix it up between cords, work pant type things (Carhart), and sort of wool twist affairs. But not chinos, I would like to make that clear. I also have 4 pairs of jeans (1 Carhart, 1 old Levi 501, 1 'something or other' which are the best and a fake pair of Lee jeans from Thailand).

Combats are somewhat passe these days, tho' they were de rigueur during early 90s techno times...

 

[Kanda]

Combats are a no-no... gawd

 

[Orang Utan]

It's like wearing flares isn't it?

 

[Kanda]

It's like wearing flares isn't it?

It's a whole venom filled thread on it's own!!

 

[milesy]

combats are alright. they're a perennial item of clothing, like jeans. they'll always be around, just the style might change.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I've never liked combats, apart from on All Saints Mk 1.

 

[milesy]

i've never liked you.

 

[jbob]

combats are alright. they're a perennial item of clothing, like jeans. they'll always be around, just the style might change.

I can't recall them pre-90s. Except on soldiers, of course.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I can't recall them pre-90s. Except on soldiers, of course.

I can. Army surplus shops have been going since at least the end of the war. I've been wearing them for gardening especially for at least 25 years.


Anyway, back to jeans...I have three pairs, all bought for under a tenner in the sales. 2 black pairs, one blue pair.

 

[milesy]

i remember seeing crusty/punk types hanging around in combats in the arse end of the 80s, and i've seen pictures of punks, skins, rastas, whatever wearing them in the 80s and 70s.

 

[Kanda]

Yeah, thats Army surplus combats. Not the fashion wank combats most people walk around in these days...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Practical people have always liked them. Useful pockets for balls of string, secateurs etc....I was always influenced by the Rational Dress Society







www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/census/living/time/s46L.htm

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yeah, thats Army surplus combats. Not the fashion wank combats most people walk around in these days...

I believe the Hoxton Set refer to them as 'cargo pants'.

 

[Kanda]

I believe the Hoxton Set refer to them as 'cargo pants'.

Aye, I couldn't bring myself to type that

 

[Roadkill]

Strange you should put that link to the National Archives up, Mrs M, 'cos I swear by combat trousers for archive trips. It doesn't matter if they end up getting covered in the inevitable dirt from opening century-old files of papers, and they've got plenty of pockets for pencils, reader's card, loose change, notepad and the mobile phone and cigarettes you're not meant to take into the reading rooms but I always do anyway...

 

[jbob]

Okay, so I was wrong on the combats. I meant 'cargo pants', I suppose.

 

[rutabowa]

i have 3 pairs of jeans, in progressing states of decay from "almost acceptable" to "14-yr-old grunge kid circa 1991"

 

[milesy]

cargo pants are combat trousers, just in a freemans catalogue or on GMTV or something.

 

[foo]

i've got lots and lots of jeans

 

[ChrisFilter]

i've never liked you.

Now that's just not true.

 

[SubZeroCat]

I have several pairs of jeans but I hardly wear them.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It's like wearing flares isn't it?

beesonthwhatnow, behind the times since 1977

 

[Cloo]

I have two pairs - Karen Millen (£30 in a sale down from 90) and M&S (£25). The latter pair are a bit shite and I think when I replace them I might spend money on a damn good pair. My sister has a pair of 'Seven for all Mankind' ones - she bought them after running after a girl in a tube station to ask what jeans she was wearing, as they had similar figures and they looked really good. And they do look really good, I must say.

I'm not a huge fan of jeans, so I try not to wear them too much. I don't actually find them that useful - they're not warm when it's cold and they're boiling when it's warm.

My best pairs were the first pair I bought for myself, expensively at the time, from Diesel when I was about 16 (baggy boy fit, big turn-ups) and then my 555-Soul jeans from New York (baggy boy fit, big turn-ups with camo-print on them)!