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I've always worn blue jeans and a t-shirt. I'm not much into shorts, even when I lived in Phoenix. I rarely ever wore them. Besides, shorts don't look too well with boots. I've worn several different brands of jeans in the past. Right now I usually wear Ariat jeans. They seem to fit the best and are very comfortable for me.

When I am home and I don't plan on going out, for the night, I'll slip into my pajama pants. They only get worn for lounging around the house.
 
Just reminded of the first time my dad bought a pair a jeans. Both my parents were British ex pats coming here in their mid late 20s in 1948. Dad didn't buy his first pair of jeans until sometime iirc the mid 1980's and it was at first somewhat strange seeing him wearing them. He had worn Bermuda shorts in the summer but for the most part he had always worn flannel or wool trousers and a long or short sleeve mens dress type shirts and an English cap. Think Richard Bucket from Keeping up Appearances to get the picture. I remember saying to him around that time that he should buy some more colorful shirts than his usual bland white, brown, tan ones and he did eventual get some polo's but never anything brightly colored. My mother never wore jeans. She always wore a dress or skirt until pant suits came along but for the most part stuck to skirts and blouses and was always well dressed even when she was gardening.
 
I didn't begin wearing jeans until sometime between the age of 32 and 34 years old. The reason being wearing leg brace that at times went up to my waist with a metal pelvic band or just brace up to my thigh. Too difficult and very uncomfortable to wear. My next door neighbor after I bought my first house in 1980 was shocked I'd never worn jeans. He took me to buy my first pair of jeans. Once I got used to them I wore them just about any time I could over cotton slacks/pants.
 
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Bob,

Yep we totally get it in this house about braces and the difficulty they present when it comes to clothing selection. Stacye wears braces on both legs. Hers only go up to the knees but they still make jeans hard to put on unless they're the boot-cut structure. Therefore, she mostly wears leggings, the thicker type that look more like pants. They're more form-fitting than sweatpants, but still have the stretch needed to go over the braces easily.
 
Wearing mine (Levi's, no less) and even had them on at last night's midweek Church sacrament...

 

One other person had his on. And we were even wearing t-shirts, among the well-dressed, button 'n ties...

 

My philosophy at this point, with the old people dressing up like the young 'un's (wear just a pair of black Dickie's slacks at work) is "If you're as old as the blue jeans inventor, then you're too old to wear jeans"...

 

 

To each, their own...

 

 

-- Dave

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As a youth,used to wear 501 Levis almost exclusively~1987-97 because they were very popular around that time ,were durable and i knew what size fit:29x36 for ~134-138#,30x36 for 139-145# :)I stopped wearing the once i got past my mid-30s and harder to keep weight down over winter :) Quit western type jeans and went to other types of jeans and pants including Dickies 874 polycott work pants.Got in habit of wearing pants similar to old skool hiking knickers- except cotton instead of wool-along with long socks during the winter and usually wear these until shorts get fully into season.
 
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I love wearing them, and I find them comfortable and easy to maintain. I wash and dry them on the normal or heavy duty cycles. In the Kenmore Elite front load pair back in Killeen, I'd mainly use normal cycles on both machine, with the energy saver disabled on the dryer and the turbo wash equivalent enabled on the washer.[this post was last edited: 4/7/2025-14:58]
 
I’ve been wearing Levi’s since I was a toddler. I can still see my Dad on his knees in front of me rolling up the cuffs on my stiff, new unwashed blue Levi’s with a Chesterfield hanging off of his lip. Mine and my little brother’s legs were so short that Dad had to cut some of the bottom of the legs off with a razor blade the first time we wore a new pair before he rolled up the cuffs.

Since I retired in the Summer of 2005 jeans are my daily uniform. I seldom wear any other kind of pant.

Eddie
 
About nine-minutes into this video, an executive for Levi Strauss actually said Elly Mae helped more sales of jeans in one year than cowboys did in one-hundred... This was for sales of jeans for women, prompting 3/4 off the cast (Jethro & Jed) being part of the Blue Jean Crowd:



And let's not forget my favorite episode, where the iconic Pat Boone guests, filling out a pair himself:



(it got me collecting a lot of his records & CD's too)



-- Dave
 
Well watch this for the first 21-minutes, afterwards, to get the best view of the denim wearing when it became zeitgeist, at the end of this episode of Gomer Pyle USMC...

A frequently deserting from the base-marine on USMC, known as "Frisbee Franklin" notoriously leaving the platoon, captured by Sgt. Vincent Carter...

The GI, gone AWOL is caught when wearing jeans, as well as a denim jacket, at the end...

(Yes, my youthful self was told, he was Out of Uniform... No, military men don't dress like that--and a spoiler: he once again, gets away!)

Another spoiler: The episode actually is about Gomer minding the sergeant's car while he goes after the deserting marine, just for it to be stolen and wrecked...



-- Dave

 
Being a past member of the International Gay Rodeo Association, my choice of jeans back then was of course, Wranglers. As a teen and young adult, Levi's were fashionable until designer jeans came out with the nice scooped Disco era butts. Once I got past middle age, I had to face the fact that I no longer look good in any jeans. From then until now, I stick with Dockers and grandpa nylon wind pants.
 
Oh, some guy's might just as well. Pants hang half way down their butt cheeks with their underwear showing all day doing yard work, shopping, etc. In flip flops with socks too. They walk and talk in flip flops around the neighborhoods.
 
vacerator said:
Oh, some guy's might just as well. Pants hang half way down their butt cheeks with their underwear showing all day doing yard work, shopping, etc. In flip flops with socks too. They walk and talk in flip flops around the neighborhoods.
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Yes, I've seen that idiotic behavior too.
It's very ghetto-style, and not attractive at all.
 
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Being a past member of the International Gay Rodeo Association, my choice of jeans back then was of course, Wranglers. As a teen and young adult, Levi's were fashionable until designer jeans came out with the nice scooped Disco era butts. Once I got past middle age, I had to face the fact that I no longer look good in any jeans. From then until now, I stick with Dockers and grandpa nylon wind pants.
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I still look decent in jeans at 70. I do a good bit of hiking, and been told I have nice legs.
 
I'm a few weeks short of 71, still wear jeans. I have lots of 34x36 and 34x34 but unfortunately now wear 32x34 - i think it's easier to live with too snug jeans than too loose. Was at Costco and bought my first pair of tech pants, really like them.
 
Only wear jeans occasionally here. Especially since Covid. We went home for work and haven't been back since. So it's pretty much shorts, t-shirts and sweatpants. i do wear khakis or some other type of casual pant when i go out for something like a holiday or party but that's about it
 

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