The Unbranded Brand Jeans - Page 35

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Originally Posted by cyc wid it 

If you're going to equate Unbranded with Samurai or Iron Heart, you're just deluding yourself.

Keep drinking that Kool-Aid.

Must suck paying $400 for jeans when there are $80 jeans out there that use the same quality Japanese denim. But you know, people like Kiya won't become millionaires by selling jeans for $80!

Just wanted to put in a nod for the chinos. I got the 33 and 34 skinny chinos shipped to my house (from UO). Fabric is heavier and more substantial than traditional chinos, and they have a beautiful, deep navy color that's hard to find. I was super into them, except for the problem that they simply would not fit. It was a spectacle getting them on and off, and they were noticeably tight in the thigh. I'm not sure if I could/should have stayed with the 34s and hope that they stretched, but I"m not entirely sure how much chino stretch you get (I mean, they aren't denim), so I opted to return them. If they fit well they'd be real keepers, though.  I think I'm going to get the 'slim/straights' which seem to have a slightly wider leg, and I'll report back with any additional findings.

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Originally Posted by lesamourai 

Have you worn any of the jeans that you're comparing your unbranded jeans to? If not then please stop.

Not trying to sound like a dick here, but who cares? The issue or instance of 'quality' in denim is not only incredibly subjective (does anyone here work with fabric or actually make denim jeans? How do you determine the true 'quality' of the fabric anyway?), but I highly doubt that anyone here, besides the occasional jeans-wearing jaunt outside, is an experienced enough fabric expert to sing the praises of one particular type of denim over another. I don't know enough about fabrics, but I do know enough about weaving and fabric strength that denim, regardless of its overall construction or sourcing, is an extremely durable textile. I'm sure people can complain all they want about 'justifying' the high quality price of a $300 pair of jeans, but it's a true story that my $30 H&M jeans are going very strong after 3 years of every day (literally) wear. You are paying for a label, and you are paying for the right to say you own a $300 pair of jeans. Trying to disguise it as something else and justify it through words like 'high quality', 'great stitching' and strong adjective use is an exercise in self-delusion.  In other words, having a dick-measuring contest in a context one knows little of and based purely upon an entirely misinformed reference point is every definition of silly.