Will jeans be going out of fashion?

[Diamondback]

As a loon......

HEYHEYHEY! That's MY title!

As for jeans going out of "fashion"--well, we all remember Marty M's sigline, right? "Style counts--fashion discounts." lol

 

[John in Covina]

Jeans, like Rock N Roll while never die.

 

[Warbaby]

Jeans, like Rock N Roll while never die.

No truer words were ever spoken. Jeans have always transcended fashion. They simply are, and always will be.

Oh - and there are only two acceptable brands: Levis and Lee. All those overpriced designer jeans are yuppie poser pants and while they may, in some unfathomable way, be related to fashion, they are an abomination in the eyes of all persons of discriminating taste, and will hopefully pass into the darkest pits of design hell, their memory relegated to the aesthetic wasteland of polyester disco shirts and pastel golf trousers. And crocs.

 

[John in Covina]

No truer words were ever spoken. Jeans have always transcended fashion. They simply are, and always will be.

Oh - and there are only two acceptable brands: Levis and Lee.

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I was partial to Sears brand Roebucks but they are gone out here. Wranglers were pretty good also. My last few sets of jeans were from Cabelas and also Carhart.

 

[Warbaby]

Oops - forgot about Wranglers. Yep, they're ok too.

 

[Spitfire]

I've been wearing khakies and dockers for so lang now, that my wife actually asked me the other evening - before going out to a dinnerparty:
"Why don't you wear your ol' levis with the white shirt and the navy blazer?"
I did.
Felt great!

The real jeans will never die.
Designerjeans will.

 

[pgoat]

No......

 

[pgoat]

Oops - forgot about Wranglers. Yep, they're ok too.

I found me a great old pair of pro rodeos last month. They're bullet proof!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

It was around long before any of us were born and will be around long after we are gone. Get off of your high-horses and get used to it.

Couldn't agree more.

I don't look like a "slob" in jeans, either. For one, I'm *not* a "slob", and for two, they look good on my figure and they are nice and comfy. I like to wear girl-cut T-shirts with them (HORROR). I look very good in such an outfit.

I would feel so silly if I got "dressed up" to run errands and go grocery shopping.

I don't see jeans going anywhere in these parts. To be quite honest, I don't usually notice what others are wearing because I have more important things to think about.

 

[Ying Ko]

JEANS ARE LIKE WEARING A JOURNAL....

...of your life. At least, the pairs you buy raw and wear in yourself. In that sense, I don't see jeans going anywhere. They represent the American personality. All those wear marks, holes, cat's whiskers, etc, unapologetically reflect and convey everything you've experienced in your life, or, at the very least, the life you've led while wearing your jeans, without hiding a single thing. The time you got arrested trying to climb over the fence at the city zoo because, in your drunken stupor, you thought you'd do the right thing and free all of the peacocks in the bird house? That's the hole towards the bottom of the left pant leg.

Your life experiences are nothing to be ashamed of, and a pair of jeans will tell that to the world.

Unfortunately, today we live in a much faster world where no one has the time to wear in their own jeans, so we buy them pre-faded, pre-distressed. Well, not all of us. Some of us still buy our jeans raw and break them in on our own.

 

[Widebrim]

What?

Yep you are crazy. I don't see me in a skirt anytime soon, mind you I have never actually tried one .

You're not Scot?!

 

[Widebrim]

Dressing down

For me, I will always associate jeans with miners, cowboys, and labourers. I cannot bear to see "dressed up" jeans with a sportsjacket, as it doesn't so much dress the jeans up as it dresses the jacket down. Jeans can go on serving their purpose, but they needn't creep into the fashion world, or worse, become an accepted style.

Thank you, kindly! I wore jeans for that "casual look" for about twenty years. Gave them up about 5 years ago. They were designed for labor, not fashion.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

If jeans in their many colors and forms were to actually go away. What would they be replaced with?? [huh]

 

[Feraud]

I picked up a Japanese magazine this weekend that featured vintage repro denim. Unfortunately I could not read a word of it. Based on the pictures and my active imagination, I would say denim holds a solid place in the world closet.

 

[Nash Buckingham]

Having been a working cowboy, I have to say to do the work I wore nothing but Wranglers - they get the job done. However, when I was flush and could afford it I'd spring for some cotton duck pants by Wah Maker that have no hip pockets, and are built to wear suspenders with.

But I admit that when I went to town, I dressed up - suit and tie was the game.

nowdays seems like folks'll wear dungarees or jeans even in the finest restaurants - can't figure that one out

 

[Jerekson]

I certainly hope so. If I have one more person tell me "we need to get you a pair of jeans", I'm going to do something irrational.

 

[Smuterella]

It was around long before any of us were born and will be around long after we are gone. Get off of your high-horses and get used to it.

^ that

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Jeans were worn in the Golden Era. Bogart looked cool in his high rises in "To Have & Have Not."

I have seen French and Italian men in jeans that look much dressier than some corresponding men in the street here in the US who are wearing suits. That can be evidenced by posts on The Sartorialist.

As for me, it's all about the individual and their sense of style. I wouldn't rule anything out; always give yourself room to evolve. A myopic world view is so limiting, inherently.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Jeans will not go out of style, and neither will discussing whether they will or wont go out of style..


lol

 

[grant]

I'll never stop wearing denim work wear - at least as long as they continue to make decent reproductions of the classic Lee or Levi's jeans since I can't afford or find vintage denim in my sizes. Here's a photo of a pair of well worn LVC Japan reproductions of the 1955 501XX with an original studded belt from the 50's. Grant