erica you'd probably look super hot in skinnies, esp those ones posted at the top. i still can't figure out what sort of jeans i should get. i have these awesome grey cotton pants i bought years ago for like $15 in australia and i love them: they're really fitted through the leg, with a really narrow bootcut, and they are the perfect length! didn't have to take up the hems! but the seams on the inner thighs are finally wearing through so must find a replacement.
― Rubyredd, Friday, 20 June 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I'm gonna try the ones Laurel keeps praising (those pictured upthread) once I have more $.
Why do jeans have to be so complicated? Grrrr.
― ENBB, Friday, 20 June 2008 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
ps RR - I got your FB message and address has been noted. :-)
Uniqlo has some super cute jeans right now. I didn't try any on though, because last time I tried on their jeans they ran very very small.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 20 June 2008 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
No talk of raw denim?
My go-to jeans are G-Star Raw in cigarette (super skinny) cut.
I love, love, love them now even though I only thought I was buying them because they were cheap. They are a mix of super-dark black and blue in kind of a stripe (I don't know how this is "raw" but it is). Also they were aspirational -- I bought them one size small as they were a bargain.
My only advice on jeans is to buy them as tight and as dark as possible. Then never put them in the dryer, ever.
― felicity, Friday, 20 June 2008 03:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i just can't bring myself to spend even $90 on a top
i guess since i started sorta tangentially being involved in the fashion world, my whole concept of the cost/value of clothing has changed dramatically... its like now "ooooh those shoes are only $200!! i should totally get them!" when several years ago i'd be like wtf $200? i just took a peek at whats hanging in my closet and only saw 2 things that were less than $90... oops! i can drop a months rent on a comme des garcons trench coat and a shitload on dinner at gramercy tavern, but i have the hardest time justifying spending ten bucks on a new pillow case when the one i have now is ratty and has holes all over it. seriously, wtf is wrong with me. fucked up priorities....
aaanyways, jeans, i have a pair of tsubi's ive had for a couple years that i loooove, but went to the store and its not as nice anymore... im always daunted by the walls of denim at stores. dunno what to get.
― phil-two, Friday, 20 June 2008 06:08 (fifteen years ago) link
this girl i know just spent $2000 (with her discount) on this lanvin bag
http://www.aloharag.com/highseas/assets/images/english/store/women/ln/bags/aw0r4mnvy/a.jpg
$2000.. (!)
― phil-two, Friday, 20 June 2008 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link
oh that meant to go in the post pics of bags thread, but i guess relevent to my last post
― phil-two, Friday, 20 June 2008 06:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahahahahhaah oh god no, I'm 5'3" and hippy. But once I decided to love my thighs my perspective just kind of...shifted, and skinny jeans made me proud of my figure, whereas all the longer, boot-cut jeans I used to wear with heels seemed like I was trying to fool people.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Not that I want this head-to-toe look, but I don't think this girl is feeling apologetic about her ass:
http://mybabyjo.com/clothes/capridenim_lg.jpg
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
it might also be a problem that i don't have nice ankles, otherwise i think i might be able to pull of this look.
― Rubyredd, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, you don't have to wear capris. I do prefer the skinny jeans short-ish, just around the ankle bone, but that's just me.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
My only advice on jeans is to buy them as tight and as dark as possible.
I agree with this!^^^^ Except now that it's summer Levis thinks we all want light blue, instead of dark denim. Bastards.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Wear them in a thinner material, you just need to try the texture, some jeans are made thicker than others and are hotter. I mean I could go into extreme detail about how every shape can wear those skinny jeans/capris look if you know how to do it but basically wear jeans in the summer but make sure the material isn't one thats too heavy. You'll know, trust.
― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I ain't worn jeans in over two years, I think? I might never wear them again. This is just me, but I don't think that jeans are very flattering on fifty-something year-old guys. Pair them with sneakers and it gets truly blecch. I want to look dignified in my old age, ffs.
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
so you're telling us you're not paul newman or robert redford eh
― rrrobyn, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
guess so!
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
But basically I think I just don't like jeans. Period.
The revival in recent years of designer jeans with stupid embroidery on the back pockets really rankled me. I forgot to complain about that on the "Nineties Fashion" thread...
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I respect your position on jeans, dell. It's good to have standards.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks, that's a kind way of putting it!
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
laurel, are the wrangler jeans you like the slim-fit cowboy cut?
― lauren, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i ask because i was just looking around at various jeans online and found a wrangler style that looked decent: mid-rise, slim fit, straight leg.
― lauren, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Wrangler? I've never bought Wranglers...? I went through 2 or 3 pars of Lee Dungarees but they stopped making the ones I loved.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, ok. i mixed up lee and wrangler.
― lauren, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
ok you guys, i bought the jbrand jeans. i was meeting my mom at nordstrom anyway, so figured i would try them on which would immediately stop all my longing because they looked so stupid. but they didn't, i really like them.
only trouble is-- they're way more low rise than i'm used to (this is partly because i have a natural urkel waist so everything feels too low rise to me), and i have a tiny bit of muffin top hanging over. they are tight (and very dark), so i don't know if that will improve as it stretches out over the next few wears? i never ever wear tops that bare the midriff, either, so think it shouldn't matter because it will be completely covered. but if it does, please tell me and i will go get my $200 back, that would be OK.
― colette, Friday, 20 June 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Ladies:
Take a look at A.P.C. New Cure or Hipster model jeans.
IMO these are the best jeans in the women's market.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 20 June 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Steve Shasta please advise as to jeans that accommodate 5'11' girls with high hip-to-waist ratio.
― quincie, Friday, 20 June 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone told me Joe's Jeans Muses but I'm not sure???
apc jeans are relatively short inseam, right? hudson i think are v long, i haven't tried any myself
― daria-g, Friday, 20 June 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
shasta, please help me with A.P.C. jeans sizing. i tried on the new cure this weekend in a size 29. in levi's or whatever i usually wear a 27. the 29 was too small to even button and just barely made it over my hips. now, looking at their website i see that 30 is the largest size they even offer. is APC trying to tell me that i am a fat?
― bell_labs, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
now everything i'm reading about APC jeans says to go several sizes down from your usually size? what the hell?
― bell_labs, Monday, 23 June 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Guys, my company's CEO sent out an email on Friday saying we can all wear jeans through Labor Day. Woo! And I was about to buy some summer work pants. jeans and $$$ saved.
― sunny successor, Monday, 23 June 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
A.P.C. are true to size. They will shrink if you wash in hot water and machine-dry, so I'd rinse in cool water when you need to clean the garment.
The seat and yoke of most jeans are constructed via using chainstitching to make double-interlock flat seams. This means is that jeans in their native state will give a little in the seat(butt)/lower back. With a pair of A.P.C.s that will last at least 10 years, you should try to find the most snug fit possible because they will "stretch" (ie, due to seam construction as opposed to fabrication components). I would go for the 29 (with effort) and if that's too uncomfortable try the 30. Raw denim is very coarse and stiff at first, it will begin softening immediately with wear.
Many US companies began "vanity sizing" in the 80s, convincing people that they wore a smaller size than what the garment measures out to be (eg, a size 27" garment measures to a true 29"). Some brands (like Levi's) resisted this trend for over a decade until they saw their sales decrease because those brands "didn't fit" the consumer. European and Asian companies do not vanity size which may explain the variance.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Vanity sizing is the worst - size small became size large pretty quickly as everyone stopped exercising and started eating like shit. It's crazy, buy a size small from 1980 and it fits like ... a small. You need to get an XXSmall to get an actual small these days.
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link
so APC IS saying i'm a fat oh well at least their voluminous dresses fit.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf is a voluminous dress
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i was using it to mean smock dresses/non-fitted silhouettes
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i thought they were designed to like give your body more volume =P
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/alwaysontime6/littlewhitedress.jpg ^this kind of shape
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I really wish dresses cut like that wouldn't invariably look like a potato sack on me. They look so chic and comfy :(
― quincie, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
same here. i suspect its a chest size prob.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
YES that is clearly why i can wear them horray for the 1 dress that looks good on the flat of chest
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
To learn more about vanity sizing, take a tape measure and your favorite jeans and measure the waist and compare to the stated size.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ignorance in this matter is preferred
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i don't want to get even more depressed
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
tho truth is that i do measure my waist. b/c it is for me the best indicator of weight gain reality and when to do something abt it...
p.s. let us pls not start a diiet thread on i love style unless it is a thread abt an all-lobster diet and what restaurants have cute bibs
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yes plz no diet threads
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Or unless it's the "Popular" diet, in which the lunch kit consists of a carrot stick and a cigarette -- and you vomit up the carrot stick.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Pass the lighter, please.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the thing is, jeans don't sit on my waist. the waist is the narrowest part, by definition, right? even the highest cut jeans go just about to my belly button and then the waist is 2-3 inches above that.
but it still pisses me off that a.p.c. makes only up to a 30 waist (by shasta's math, a 28 to vanity sizers)
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
or can anyone convince me that stretchy jeans ARE actually durable?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
i like unbranded if the fit works for u
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
or Gustin maybe???
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
ugh i wish i could go try Unbranded jeans on but they don't sell them in my state or any states near me
501s?
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
i love gustin, big fan. be very confident in yr measurements if you go that route tho.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
I love the idea of 501s and how they look on a lot of other ppl but I don’t think they work well w my skinny twig legs
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
the thing is that you can’t tell how big the legs are unless you roll em up because they’re wide enough
― mh, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
I think the Levi's 514s ( i have to double check) are pretty good for tall dudes with thin legs. They aren't stretchy but there is definitely a little variability in softness depending on the wash. Plus levi's always has some type of sale going on online.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
those were my go-to for years before the whole selvedge madness
― mh, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.paulsmith.com/uk/men-s-slim-fit-11-8oz-super-soft-cross-hatch-indigo-jeans i can't find exactly the right ones on the website, the ones i like are just paul smith jeans, black patch, made in japan but don't carry the premium price of whatever the japanese denim line is, just under a hundred bucks... but i recommend those
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
I'm a fan of 511sLee also used to have some nice slim fit jeans, at least in the UK
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
Edwins rule, for me. I just bought a pair of organic cotton slim fit for not much money (I think $A80) on eBay. Dyed, woven, made in Japan too. Their selvedge denim ones, and the "sen" denim (kind of ashy indigo) are great too.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
i'm all about 501s these days once i figured out how to wear them. they now make both a skinny and a tapered version which may work better for your legs. they're always on sale so they can be had quite cheap. in fact, i bought two this weekend for $30 each
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
yea i switched to 501s a couple years ago and now that's all i wear. they are cheap and levis always puts out different washes that I like. the button fly grew on me a lot now I love it
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:18 (five years ago) link