I've had the same jeans on for four days now

[venta]

I'm sure I have dozens of LJ posts stacked up in the back of my head, but now that I am sitting at a computer with ten minutes to spare, I can't remember any of them. So, you may have my thoughts on jeans.

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[lnr]

:) though I tend to find if you try every pair of black jeans in M&S some will eventually fit, more or less (and I find my waist is too big for many pairs - so opposite end of spectrum to you but equally not on the sweet spot). I may have to give the Levi's a go.

(I"m going to have to google that lyric - I KNOW I know it, but it won't come out of my head!)

When you look in the mirror, reflecting back at you someone that you don't know

[bopeepsheep]

The title's in the line. And now I'll be humming it all day too. :)

[huskyteer]

My mum has said the same about good jeans being easily worth £80 - £100. I was always sceptical, but the most comfortable jeans I ever owned was a pair of Calvin Kleins (jumble sale) and my current favourite pair is Ralph Lauren (half price in the John Lewis sale). So I guess what I have learned is keep an eye out for jeans bargains.

[venta]

My second-favourite pair at present is Boden, or £4 in a charity shop in Richmond :)

[bibliogirl]

Do me a favour and tell me how they wear in terms of fading? I have quite a lot of jeans from Old Navy in the US (as I buy a bunch of pairs when we go there each year) and the main problem I have with their black jeans is that they start to fade quite quickly (and for the ones I want to wear on stage, that's an issue -- they start to look a bit crap when they fade).

Yeah, I could probably redye them or something but then I'd have to try to figure out dye, and not covering everything in the house (or that goes in the washing machine thereafter) in it, which worries me a bit...

[venta]

I've only had them for a few washes thus far, but will try and remember to report back. Levis recommend washing them inside out at 30, which is what I've been doing to try and preserve them.

Dylon washing machine dye is pretty simple and umessy to use: chuck it in with the washing, things come out a different colour. I've never managed to get it on anything else in the house, and the next wash goes through fine.

Dylon also make a "refresher" product, which looks like a big teabag and goes in the wash with a small number of black clothes to make them black again. In my experience that doesn't work at all on jeans :)

[bibliogirl]

Huh, I'd not heard of the "refresher" one. I wonder if it'd work on some T-shirts I have which are really a bit more grey than black these days ;)

[bateleur]

which are made of nice, soft fabric

This is the thing I've never understood about denim jeans. They're[1] the worst colour in the world and are made of really nasty fabric, so why would anyone want to wear them?!

[1] Typically.

[venta]

Have you fondled the leg of a jeans-wearer recently? Denim has changed massively since the 80s.

Also, even in the 80s, I didn't think they were the worst colour or the worst fabric, or I wouldn't have worn them :)

[bateleur]

Also, even in the 80s, I didn't think they were the worst colour or the worst fabric

It was the 80s. There was some serious competition. ;-)

[undyingking]

Last year T got me a pair of jeans from Howie's, which are in that sort of price bracket and are brilliant. I vowed never to buy cheap jeans again.
We shall see whether I remember that when these ones wear out…