Edward
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Did you think about trying C&A jeans?
They got four quality grades, here in Germany and the highest grade is fine. And true to size. Even the 2nd quality grade is not bad.
I had a few bits from C&A many years ago. They were one of a small handful of incoming businesses that remained in the Six Counties across the period known as 'The Troubles', a large store on Belfast's Royal Avenue. I remember them as being fairly decent for the money; I had a couple of suits from them when I was about sixteen and would have grown out of them quickly, so no idea of long term durability. I did have a couple of polo shirts from them I bought in London on Oxford Street in 1999; those weren't bad, though long grown out of now. Decent enough basics that at the time matched M&S but didn't cost M&S money. (M&S used to be somewhere people would go for 'brand quality' at a non-brand price, but their market dipped later on when they decided to make themselves a brand and charge brand money, as it were.)
No idea what C&A are like now, though - they closed all of their UK stores in 2000.