I hate shopping for blue jeans

I'm comfortable in Wrangler. Real comfortable.

 

Would you pay that much for dress pants?

 

I usually do an excellent job bargain hunting, but I normally go about $75-125 for nice dress pants.

 

Lordy, I just realized I dress like a hobo or something.
$125 for dress pants?
I didn't know Dockers came that expensive.

And inky, you have a wife, have her buy your jeans.

 

See, that's what I think is interesting. That people are willing to spend that much for dress pants, but balk at $50 for jeans, which they are seen in way more often. I guess you can say that it's easier to find cheaper jeans that look just as nice, but tougher to do that with dress pants.

 

Negative. She'd have me wearing the latest style in jeans in some dark navy wash, not classic blue jeans.

Anyway, I ducked into a local outdoors store during lunch. They had Carhartt jeans on sale for $22. So I bought a pair. I almost went with Wranglers ($17), but preferred the way the Carhartt's fit. Yes, I tried them on.

 

Well -- I wear dress pants in a work environment or to a nicer event, so it is more important that they look nice. Gap jeans are high quality and look nice. The Lucky jeans which I have retailed at $200 or so and I don't think are certainly not better made and I think are no nicer (although Mrs. W disagrees on the latter).

 

Available at MAcy's and Bamberger's, so you know they're good.

 

I get the Wrangler Hero jeans at Target. Durable enough for me, inexpensive.

Levi's at Target seem to be about the same feel as the Wranglers but cost $10-$15 more. Nobody notices the difference.

 

Gah it's so much easier to be a guy. You can't find nice girls jeans for less than $150. And for those of us who are vertically challenged, they think every woman has to be as tall as Tyra Banks, so I have to get virtually all of my pants hemmed or I'd be walking all over them. Even so-called "petite" jeans are too long for me 75 percent of the time.

Usually when I get done jeans shopping (read: give up on jeans shopping), I'm cursing every single person who has ever made blue jeans because I've found maybe two or three pairs in the last 10 years that were the right length, that fit me around the waist and butt without needing a belt and that were decently priced. And I've done a lot of jeans shopping.

 

I used to get them at the Geoffrey Beene outlet for $20, but then they switched styles. I've since turned to L.L. Bean's Adirondack jeans which are around the same price.