I know that Insty probably doesn’t have much control over the linkages on his site, but really:
Given that Levi Strauss is a bunch of rabid gun confiscators and anti-Second Amendment assholes, I’m a little surprised that he would allow this garbage on his website.
But hey, money talks.
As much as I love the man and want to support him, though, I draw the line at following this link. They could give their poxy 501 jeans away for free, and I still wouldn’t want anything to do with them.
Even 60 years ago when I could squeeze my young ass into a pair of 501’s, I failed to understand … buttons. Who could possible want button fly jeans? Why make taking a simple leak a major chore, to say nothing of trying to get them (and then me) off in the back seat of a car? Very impractical hippie shit.
These days, by the way, it’s Key jeans all the way. Double fronts and factory suspender buttons FTW.
In college I used to wear 501s, but they were only $4.95 per pair. These days, I wear Wranglers.
His wife inserts the links.
He is 100% PW’ed.
No, not at all. Well, he may be PW, but the links show up under his wife’s name so that we know it’s not *him*, it’s advertising.
His wife picks all the links
His wife chooses and inserts all the links, that is why they appear above her name.
I used to wear 501s all the time.
No more. In addition to ruining with company with woke, their quality sucks balls. Order jeans or pants in your size, and it’s a crapshoot whether they fit or not. I generally buy a size larger, but slim cut. That’s what I did with the last pair of Levis I bought, and they were way too tight. Dockers pants are no better. God knows what east asian shithole they outsource from.
There are so many other choices, especially here in Texas where we can go to Boot Town or Cavendars. Bonus there is that the men’s section has clothing in normal men’s sizes.
My ‘going to town’ jeans are Ariat. They cost as much as Levis but are better. But for day to day, you’d think that you can’t beat Wrangler, but Sam’s club house brand – members mark – are like $15 and I swear are indistinguishable from Wrangler. A bargain hidden gem.
Now that the furnace is on high here in Texas, Jeans are a bit hot during the day. Wrangler cargo pants can’t be beat if you need to not wear shorts for some reason.
For probably 15 years I wore Levi’s 505’s in a .30-30 (30″ waist, 30″ inseam) size. I used to buy them from the same place all the time, a local saddle shop. Didn’t even have to try them on.
Then came the day I bought a pair, brought them home, and tried ’em on. Couldn’t pull the waistband up far enough without completely squashing important body parts. Pulled them off and looked at the tag, “Made in China”. Supposedly exactly the same jeans, but completely differently sized; I’m assuming that the Chinese had no idea just how big Americans were. Compared them side-by-side with my previous pair and there was almost no resemblance in cut and fit. Took them back to the store for a refund and looked for different jeans.
I used to wear the Duluth Trading “Ballroom” jeans with a crotch gusset; very comfortable pants. But their price has ballooned to the point where I just can’t see spending that much on a pair of jeans, and they are now made in some (non-specified) overseas location. These days I just go to one of the local farm stores here in TinyTown™ and buy whatever Made in USA jeans they’ve got in my size.
I gave up on Levi’s a L-O-N-G time ago. Not because they were too expensive for my blue-collar paycheck. Not because finding their product in my size was always a problem. I got sick of their politics. I couldn’t see giving my hard-earned Right-wing money to them to finance their Left-wing b.s. Ben and Jerry’s and lots of others, too. Other companies make equally good and usually less expensive products. Levis and all the other Lefties can get their money from the hippies and the wokesters.
I used to wear Levis 501s in the early 90s. I gave up on their political correctness/woke crap decades ago. They were approaching $50 a pair but they didn’t wear out much. I moved on to Wranglers. Now I’m wearing LL Bean jeans and chinos. I can’t stand Levi’s anti Civil Rights stance and their stances on other subjects. They can rot. Furthermore, I prefer natural fiber clothing like cotton and wool. I’m sick of this stretchy spandex and such. Polyesther doesn’t breathe like natural fibers do.
I grew up in the town that had a factory contract for Levi’s 505s (zipper fly 501s, if you will) and Red Tab jackets. We could get factory seconds for $1/pair and western shirts for .25/each. My Mom was friends with a bunch of workers there and I mowed some of their lawns. I wore a 29/31 in high school and Mom would get her gals to work me up 2-3 pairs a year so she wouldn’t have to hem a 32.
I switched over to Round House jeans about 30 years ago and still have the first two pair of jeans I bought from them. Made in Shawnee, OK since 1903. Best work jeans I’ve ever had and since I quit doing real work a couple of years ago, they should last me til the dirt nap.
I get all that, folks, but frankly the Levi’s fit the best. Wrangler’s are close, but the holster for my every day tends to wear off one of the belt loops. As to their politics, I don’t really care as long as they’re not trying to market their politics to me.
And that’s what I ask for from all businesses. Sell me a quality product for a fair price; leave your “company values” out of it. I know your company values – to make a profit. I don’t care what you do with your money once it’s earned, just don’t try to sell me your politics with your product. And Levi’s doesn’t. Same with “conservative” companies; I generally don’t buy the “conservative” or “patriotic” values that is part of some companies’ pitch. I don’t care; give me a quality product at a fair price. I’ll buy American made when possible, if the cost isn’t significantly higher; I buy local when I can with the same caveat.
Your politics is your business; I care about your product, your gizmos, your widget, or the quality of your jeans. Period.
I’m going to have to disagree with you there, my friend.
As a kid I wore whatever brand I could get without breaking the bank (I’m going back to the mid-50s when I had to start paying for my own clothes),
Recently, as mentioned above, size and fit have become a crapshoot with one exception: Carhartt.
Sear’s Toughskins. Bring them back, in adult sizes.