Thread: levi's 501.. how do you shink to fit?

I currently own 2 pairs which alternate every 2 or 3 days. I'll wash one while wearing the other. Once, I had to go out of town for a while - id guess it was 2 weeks. One of my 2 pairs were on the floor from the day before. When I returned, I just threw 'em in the tub, hung them on the shower curtain to dry, then wore them the next day. I was tired and didn't feel like doing laundry the day I got home. anyway, they felt great the next day, and continuously thereafter, even going through subsequent laundry washes.
I did the same to my other pair about a month later.

Lee Jeans are the only brand I wear. Slick marketing have made the 501 sort of a cult thing. They were not popular until Alan Flusser a New York fashion critic recommended them for "Disco" people and the fad started up again. The same thing happened in the 1950s when they were promoted as the jean of the beat generation.

A lot of the Navy Seals wore them in Vietnam. It was sort of an unofficial uniform to wear jungle boots, levis, tiger stripe cammo shirt and boonie hat.

I have bought a few pair over the years and found them to be a cheap jean, inferior to Lee brand.

Originally Posted by MickR

Replace that ball cap for a flat cap, add any cheap pair of jeans as well as Wranglers and do away with the bib's (although, I have been eyeing those off for a while too...) and that would be me as well.

My dad was nerdier though...


Mick

As a matter of fact, I just got my first Flat Cap for Christmas... Now I'm really feeling old...

Ya gotta give the bibs a shot....

I don't know... My dad shuffles around in pajama pants now...

Originally Posted by d. m. ellington

Lee Jeans are the only brand I wear. Slick marketing have made the 501 sort of a cult thing. They were not popular until Alan Flusser a New York fashion critic recommended them for "Disco" people and the fad started up again. The same thing happened in the 1950s when they were promoted as the jean of the beat generation.

A lot of the Navy Seals wore them in Vietnam. It was sort of an unofficial uniform to wear jungle boots, levis, tiger stripe cammo shirt and boonie hat.

I have bought a few pair over the years and found them to be a cheap jean, inferior to Lee brand.

james dean also wore lee jeans.. at one point i tried a pair and they simply didn't fit very well.

Different jeans are made with different purposes...Or at least they used to be. Levi's were once just your wear around jeans and were made a little more taylored to fit. Wranglers were made for sitting astride a horse and were made with a little more room in the backside...At least that is what I was once told. It seemed to make sense at the time anyway.


Mick

At work i wear bdu, but elsewhere i usually wear jeans. Since i was a teen there was only 3 real jeans brands: Levis, Wranglers and Lee. First it was Levis that turned into something else, they are not the same they used to be. Then Wranglers become designer jeans. Nowadays Lee is the only brand that makes durable, thick, old school jeans. Unfashionable and untrendy, just like me.

Levi 501s don't come in my size (36/38 ).

Like most other items Levis are not what they were. In the UK they are highly overpriced. I remember my first pair c1967, they cost £1 9s 6d This was before the UK adopted decimal currency. I saved up to buy a second pair and was disappointed to find the price had gone up to £1 12s 11d.
It's funny, I don't remember the price of much else I bought back then.
Nowadays the quality has gone (you pay for the brand name) and they cost in the region of £50. It crazy, but if you buy washed-out ones they more expensive!

Levi's were the jeans for me back in the day. 501s, 505s, 550s. Slightly faded, cuffed nicely atop my 10 eye steel toe oxblood Dr. Marten boots. Held up with a pair of slim braces topped off with a Ben Sherman or Fred Perry. As far as the Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars are concerned....I used to wear them all the time! They would fall apart before I got rid of them. I would get them at the Lehigh Army Navy in Allentown PA. The high tops were $11 a pair and the low tops were $9 a pair. I stopped wearing them when they sold out to Nike and started making them in China!

Originally Posted by EMC45

Slightly faded, cuffed nicely atop my 10 eye steel toe oxblood Dr. Marten boots. Held up with a pair of slim braces topped off with a Ben Sherman or Fred Perry.

In the UK, put that lot with a No.1 or 2 haircut and you'd have been a skinhead.