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What's the most you have ever paid for a pair of jeans?

Shirl said:
I recently paid £100 for a pair of skinny Levis. I think that's about average for Levis these days. I'm still wearing the last pair of Levis that I bought about 6 years ago and they look better now than when they were new. If these last as long that's only about £16 a quid a year so not bad.
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exactly, i think jeans are one of the areas where it does pay to spend more (within reason)
 
I concur with the above - I spent about £100 (got a discount on the full price) on a pair of Edwin's Rainbow Selvedge about 2 years ago - I'll only now buy a decent brand of jeans. Carharrts are my current fave but will buy another pair of £100-ish jeans in the next couple of months I reckon.

btw Geri - I'm fairly short and round too and I've always struggled to find good fitting jeans, but I went to a proper streetwear type shop and they were v helpful. I always wear mens cuts as they are way more flattering. I highly recomment "Meet Bernard" in Greenwich or a shop in London that sells workwear/street wear but the name escapes me atm, near Covent Garden :o

And of course you aren't in London either are you? :o :o but yeah, don't give up on the jean hunt. See if you can't find a friendly local jeans purveyor who is prepared to spend some time explaining the various cuts an' that! :)
 
Paid £120 for a pair of Replay jeans a couple of weeks ago. They were a bit of an impulse when I'd met someone for a drink after work, decided to stay out/stay over, so walked into shop and walked out in out new jeans, shirt trainers so I could put my shirt in the wash at hers and wear the same suit the next day.

I've paid more for Diesel in the past, but not sure I would bother these days.
 
£40 is the most i've spent on jeans. I'd like a decent pair of jeans, but it's not worth the self loathing that will come with the hassle of finding them.
 
Tank Girl said:
but it's not worth the self loathing that will come with the hassle of finding them.
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It's patience, rather than self-loathing that stops me buying new clothes on a daily basis. I regularly buy clothes don't fit because I can't slow down to try them on.
 
£60 odd for Edwins. Always got at least two years happy wear out of a pair, which is good going for me. Wear other types out too quick and they never seemed to fit as well.
 
I've remembered the name of the shop I will always buy my demin from in the future: Interstate. On Endell Street. I think :hmm:
 
Christ, I'm gonna get mullered for this but I've spent several hundred. I usually proxy Japanese denim and that pushes up the price with commission and postage. It's brands like Hinoya, Samurai, Sugar Cane, PBJs, 45rpm, Skulls. Some brands have recently become available in the UK but I'd say on average between £200 and £300 for raw denim. A lot of hand dyed with natural indigo (twice fermented while buried underground in clay pots for 20 years) using aizome (traditional Japanese indigo dying artisan techniques). Even Lee repros are produced by Japanese companies, Edwin and Real McCoys and licensed by Lee to use their logo. I never, ever buy washed or distressed denim because it looks shit. It takes patience and love to produce great looking natural jeans and in my not so humble opinion it's worth it. Even those among you who subscribe to the 501 STF look would do better to purchase LVC versions - they're stitch for stitch repros of jeans produced in earlier decades.

I'm not really a label whore, I'm just obsessed with denim. I could talk for hours about this and on some specialist websites I do. I have over 30 pairs on my current rotation!

Shoot me. dons flak jacket and tin hat
 
monsterbunny said:
Christ, I'm gonna get mullered for this but I've spent several hundred. I usually proxy Japanese denim and that pushes up the price with commission and postage. It's brands like Hinoya, Samurai, Sugar Cane, PBJs, 45rpm, Skulls. Some brands have recently become available in the UK but I'd say on average between £200 and £300 for raw denim. A lot of hand dyed with natural indigo (twice fermented while buried underground in clay pots for 20 years) using aizome (traditional Japanese indigo dying artisan techniques). Even Lee repros are produced by Japanese companies, Edwin and Real McCoys and licensed by Lee to use their logo. I never, ever buy washed or distressed denim because it looks shit. It takes patience and love to produce great looking natural jeans and in my not so humble opinion it's worth it. Even those among you who subscribe to the 501 STF look would do better to purchase LVC versions - they're stitch for stitch repros of jeans produced in earlier decades.

I'm not really a label whore, I'm just obsessed with denim. I could talk for hours about this and on some specialist websites I do. I have over 30 pairs on my current rotation!

Shoot me. dons flak jacket and tin hat
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i love you and want to be you.

well, i want your denim and the money to spend on that denim, anyway :D
 
Seriously, strung_out.

RD, you helped me out via a PM. My denim habit might get now replaced by summat else. I'll probably drop a waist size this weekend.
 
Probably about £60 on Levis.

Although got some slim fit Levi 514s in NY a couple of years back for $39...which was about 20 quid at the time. They are fucking great, I love 'em, but I can't get any over here...

I also got some Calvin Klein jeans which now only seem to be available in japan for about £200. They were a slim fit, straight cut, and again, they a really good pari of jeans.

It makes no sense that we have to pay so much in the UK for a good pair of jeans.
 
probably about £50. i get all my jeans free or half price now.

edit: well not all my jeans. but any denim we sell at my shop
 
I spent about $80 several years ago on some James Jeans which I loved at the time and wore for ages. Nowadays hardly ever spend serious money on jeans because I don't wear them very often. I would love to be the kind of woman who can throw on jeans and a t-shirt and look amazing but am not, sadly. :(
 
150 quid Ralph Laurens quite a few years ago. It is worth paying a bit more money for designer jeans, the denim is so much nicer imo. :)
 
£80

Well made (first world) cycling cut (low front waist, high back waist, seamless crotch) and office friendly.

I likes
 
For some reason I stayed away from denim for like 12 years, thinking it was nasty....I don't know quite how I managed, wearing cords, or cotton trousers and all kinds of alternative threads.

But the other week, whilst on a splurge in TK Max (god bless you!) I saw these monsters and for some reason couldn't resist them, price paid...£60.

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Tigers embrioded on both pockets, quite natty me thinks.
 
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