Why Do People Wear Blue Jeans?

They're a timeless classic, OP. If you hate blue jeans, you hate the working class and you hate America. Simple as that.

They can be heavy and uncomfortable, depending on the cut and the weight of the denim. And you wouldn’t put up with any other items of clothing fading and wearing out so quickly. It’s just style inertia.

R2, if you wash them inside out, they won't fade nearly as fast.

OP please shut the fuck up. Your trolling attempts are basic as fuck and you add zero value to DL.

"Oh I know! I'll trash blue jeans. So edgy! DL is going to go completely bonkers when I unleash this doozey! I'm really smart!"

[quote]They can be heavy and uncomfortable, depending on the cut and the weight of the denim.

This is true of every garment. Any garment can be uncomfortable "depending on the cut and the weight" of the fabric used.

R4 It's just an opinion, hon. Take a moment for yourself.

You seem to have a lot of time on your hands, OP. Get a job.

For years, I haven't seen younger people (Zoomers / Millennials) wearing jeans like in generations past. Now the younger women wear skin-tight, unflattering leotards (or something like that), while the young hunky guys only wear pajama bottoms / sweat pants. I miss the days of seeing a young man's hot ass in a tight pair of jeans. Now they wear this baggy shit. The only relief is seeing the younger black /Latino guys who still manage to wear their waistline below the cheeks of their ass, popping through their boxer shorts.

R7 Do you have any reflective surfaces in your home? The rest of the world has to look at you.

OP is one of those trolls who posts a tediously droll response to every reply, thinking it's hilarious. Basic bitch.

Tell me you're a gay man without telling me you're a gay man.

I don’t wear or like jeans. I also find penises disgusting.

The only people who call jeans "Blue Jeans" are either dead or about to die of old age.

Next time use the word "dungarees" in your title. You'll get loads more replies.

If you hate blue jeans you hate America and that means you hate democracy.

Blue jeans are the most purchased and most worn pants in the US. The Boris Hunters will be along to ask what it’s like in your country.

I'm with you, R8.

I can't stand adults wearing ripped jeans to restaurants or events like the gal in the picture at OP.

Ethel Mertz would never wear blue jeans on the subway.

I don’t have any chinos that are heavy and bulky like jeans, R5. Heavy corduroy is not uncomfortable in the same way as new jeans can be. Mostly it’s new jeans that are a bitch, I guess. And then once you get them broken in and faded like you want, they have about twenty washes left in them before they melt.

I only wear So Fine.

Which begs the question: whatever happened to Mariangela Melato?

I'm surprised OP isn't lamenting "dungarees," R13.

Seriously R20... Who?

Jeans are back. In the late 2010s there were loads of articles stating sales had dropped. I too see them everywhere, I guess everyone’s pandemic sweatpants are too holey to wear in public now, so the customer is looking for a sturdier pant.

What should they wear?

I much prefer jeans to swetpants which people wear in public all the time now.

r22 - it was a joke, made at the expense of the movie poster at r19 for "So Fine," which shows two cast members from the movie "So Fine" - and names one Mariangela Melato (whom I've never heard of until this thread after reading her name on the poster).

Sorry that went over your head.

Stretch Denim… from Gloria Vanderbilt.

This is how I imagine OP:

Pant.

My jeans don’t wear out that fast. As they fade, I might start wearing them differently but they last a long time. And they don’t have to be dry cleaned or ironed. They can be worn in and super comfortable or stiffer and retaining more structure, but potentially acting almost as spanx on a woman. They can be worn a few times without looking creased and if I spill on them it can usually be wiped away. They can be dressed up or down. Color-wise, they are almost completely neutral. What’s not to like?

Mariangela Melato was fabulous. She was the lead in the original Swept Away and played General Kala in the 1980 Flash Gordon. She died a few years ago.

One of my old friends used to fuck up her name so much that he finally settled on Mary Gelatin Gelato.

Oh Blue Jean, is heaven any sweeter than Blue Jean?

They look good on some men. I prefer dressier though though

Sits like a man, but he smiles like a reptile

She loves him, she loves him, but just for a short while

She'll scratch in the sand, won't let go his hand

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition

And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear

Poor little Greenie

The Jean Genie lives on his back

The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks

(The Jean Genie) he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls

The Jean Genie, let yourself go, whoa-oh

How about Mr. Green Jeans?

I used to wear quite often and still have three pairs from this place, a sun-powered to-order business in Barcelona. They are carefully fit, hold their shape, sturdy as fuck, and last many years (intact, not in shreds.)

I used to wear them maybe 3/4 of the time I was not at work. Now I wear them only about 1/4 of the time.

OP's image seems to be onto something. Jeans are not universal at the moment, but not exceedingly rare, either. I have seen young women wear a sort of worn, faded mom jeans cut with almost stovepipe legs, emphasizing FUPA; and a few instances of young men with ironic dickhead haircuts sporting similarly high-waisted, faded jeans, again with stovepipe legs.

Most jeans are meant to fade. Complaining that they fade is missing the point and a good indication you should probably just stick with your usual Morning Dress "in town" and caftans at home

Jeans are not supposed to washed very often. But this doesn't fit most people's ideas of cleanliness. It is gross to wear jeans out in the city and then sit all over your house with them on. You might try handing jeans on a peg, and you pull them on to go out and take off when you come home, like shoes. Most jeans nowadays are prewashed but if you make a point to buy unwashed denim, and dont wash it that much, the material is very sturdy. Dont buy it with a polyester other than a bit of Lycra if you must. In Europe I have good luck with denim from Wrangler and Gant, of all brands. Gant is an expensive bougie brand in Europe with a completely different line than anything remaining in the USA with that label. Wrangler because Amazon Germany sells it, often on sale, for cheap and it's surprisingly good depending on the origin of manufacture.

R36 Exactly. And in recent years the denim "market" is presented in two ways. The "selvedge" jeans... with the idea that a certain provenance is highly desirable (i.e "Japanese" selvedge, or selvedge from leftover stock from North Carolina mills that shut down years ago). These are thick, stiff selvedge that may be rolled up into a cuff... ala Brooklyn hipsters circa 2014. As R37 suggests, these are jeans that are rarely, if ever, washed.

Then there are jeans in various stages of fading... a little faded, very faded, faded only in the middle of the leg to look like "worn" ... the varieties of blue jeans is almost infinite now.

I don’t own jeans. I always hated the way they felt and I don’t like blue either

I wouldn't be seen in public in anything ripped or torn.

R39 = Lorna Luft

It’s an interesting question. I think they symbolize youth, ruggedness and freedom. They stand up to punishment better than wool or polyester. That’s why kids and workers used to wear them. Soldiers too — when U.S. Marines went ashore in the early days of WWII, they wore dungarees.

The cultural revolution of the late 1960s in America really changed many things in America. (For one thing, it’s one of the factors that ultimately resulted in Millennials 😅 But that’s a story for another day.) It gave us youth culture as perpetual culture. So older people began to just continue to embrace youthful things, like wearing kid’s/teen clothing for your entire life. Some people refer to this as slob couture.

I’m very much a product of that. So for most of my life I just assumed jeans were what you wore. (Except to work, if prohibited.) But over the past decade or so, rather late in my life, I had an epiphany — I’m walking a lot now, and jeans are HOT AS FUCK. So I finally got it through my head to wear chinos. I still wear jeans in winter though, for thr warmth.

I was a loyal Levi's customer for decades until they done lost they damn minds!

They went nuts with the price gouging and made their basic, heavy denim weight jeans nearly impossible to find.

So I stopped buying that brand. I've moved on Levi's!

Another brand I once bought before they cheapened their underwear to the point of wear twice/throw way is Hanes. Whatever happened to Inspector 12? She musta croaked.

[quote] It is gross to wear jeans out in the city and then sit all over your house with them on.

Don’t most people do that with all of their clothes? You can wash jeans more frequently if you want to. But I’m not concerned with the amount of city gross I pick up after three wearings vs. one. I people will draw the line at different points.

R39 ≠ Joey Luft

R40 - I agree - I've seen countless people wearing nearly shredded jeans which I find trashy looking. I'm sure some buy them that way (having slashes all along the legs for example) but if someone is otherwise well groomed and wearing slashed jeans the look just doesn't work.

I wear jeans on occasion (Ridgid (shrink-to-fit)), Black, Tan, Brown and gray. I don't like the faded look at all no matter the fit or style.

Carhartt makes some nice jeans in their trademark brown and a medium gray color I like - they run about $60.00 a pair or so.

Aren't jeans at least nicer than the sweatpants and yoga pants that people wear all the time?

Funny how my teenage niece think wearing jeans is dressing up.

They wear sweats all the time

There are countless styles of jeans. The vast majority are not "ripped and torn." Some high end styles are considered casual/dressy or business casual, but DL's Offended Spinsters' League would argue otherwise, I'm sure.

I’ve never liked jeans. I have two pairs but rarely choose to wear them

Forever in blue jeans

Thank you R39. You are Informed.

R10 Not all of them, cupcake.

Why Do Fools Fall In Love?

Last night on TCM, they featured 2 80s "work" movies: 9 to 5 and Working Girl.

In both movies, people actually got dressed up to go to work just 40 short years ago.

Now, it's a sea of crap, what with everybody dressed down in "athleisure" wear, sweat pants and T shirts. The automobile assembly line worker now wears the same clothes to work as an office worker.

OP was born in the 1910s like my grandpa, who never wore jeans.

[quote]And you wouldn’t put up with any other items of clothing fading and wearing out so quickly.

Yeah, stick to your mom jeans.

I've never had a pair of jeans "wear out."

What kind of slacks do you prefer, OldPee?

[quote]Why Do People Wear Blue Jeans?

Neil Diamond told us to

Venus wore them.

Maybe you walk around looking like a slob, R58?

I favor American-made Levi’s, 501s and 505s, vintage and also the newer White Oak stuff. I like my jeans dark. You wear them and wash them and then they are not dark any more. They are then WORN OUT.

That makes no sense R62. Can you explain the joke? How does saying I've never had a pair of jeans "wear out" mean that I walk around looking like a slob? I look like a slob because the 3-4 pairs of jeans that I wear mostly on weekends are in good condition? What?

Are you okay? You might want to brush up on your English.

I see (obese) women in ill fitting leggings and young men in pajama pants or joggers all the time. Jeans would be a huge step up from either.

What else do I wear over a jockstrap pray tell?

A football uniform?

A tricot baby doll nightie?

Op, just let your freak flag fly and call them "dungarees".

I always did.

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Four dungaree references thus far.

Wow! Such insane responses from some people!

'DON'T COME FOR MY JEANS, BITCH! I WILL CUT YOU!!!!'

Jeans, like many garments, really only look good on certain body types...

Thin people.

They look awful on fatties. And, badly fitted jeans (especially baggy assed jeans) look disgusting.

It's a close race as to what looks the worst: shitty bad fitting jeans or nasty dirty sweat pants or skin tight lycra shit where I can your nasty pussy lips.

OP rides the subway and has the audacity to call someone else common.

Didn’t Ethel say that she couldn’t ride the subway because she was wearing pants? She wanted to get dressed up.

R73 So, taking mass transit makes you 'common'?

What an idiot.

Blue Jeans are to America what Chairman Mao’s little red suits were to China.

OP is obviously not American

Blue Jeans are as American as apple pie

This is a 70s thing, right? The angry jeans partisans on here? What happens if we start a plaid flannel shirt and mustache thread?

[quote] little red suits

?

Tight jeans to show off appendage.

I gave them up in my 30's.

What does 30 possess?

Is OP posting from 1962?

[quote]So, wearing blue jeans makes you 'common'? What an idiot.

And yes, taking the subway does make one common. OP needs to take a look in the mirror.

R73 lives in a trailer park and blows closeted hillbillies for meth money.

OP shops at the Culloteria

I wear them every day., and they’re here to stay.

What’s not to love:

r26 The one pair of Vanderbuilt Stretch Jeans I've been able to afford were the most comfortable, flattering ones I have ever owned. A toast to Anderson Cooper's mom!

I don't wear denim in the summer because it's too hot, but I often wear jeans other times of the year. Never got into wearing the torn jeans, though. I try to keep a pair dark for a dressier casual look. Once they rip, they're tossed or delegated to being work pants only.

Living in the cold North, I can say that one of life's greatest idea was flannel lined jeans.

R91, when I was younger, my family couldn't afford the designer jeans that were becoming popular. But, my mom bought me a pair of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, and I just loved them.

The woman in OP’s example link doesn’t have an original bone in her body.

[quote] Why Do People Wear Blue Jeans?

Because it's hard to fit them on animals.

Imagine a bear wearing jeans. Would they wear boot cut or husky fit?

[quote] Imagine a bear wearing jeans. Would they wear boot cut or husky fit?

They should wear denim burqas if they have the gall to go out in public.

What a sight to possibly see, R97.

We know why he wears them.

Torn, ripped and shredded jeans will define the 20s...

I love you, R98.

🎵 blue jean baby… seamstress for the band.. BALLERINA!

R73 You've probably seen subways in the movies or on television. In some cities, everybody rides them.

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