can't decide

[derien]

I bought jeans for both myself and Eor, yesterday - Levis 501, 505 and 550 - and Eor decided one of his three pair should go back, the 501s with a really dorky fashionable fade in the lap. He's planning to wear them to work, so the "I've never washed these and have been wearing them for three months" look is not really the look he's going for.

I tried my own on this evening and found that the black ones are faded in a rather dorky looking way, and that both the black and the brown pair are kind of tight around my thighs and loose around my lower legs. They're 505s, so this is the 'traditional' fit. I don't like that look. The blue pair are relaxed fit with tapered legs, the 550s, and are, in my opinion, the most flattering, and also not fashionably faded, so they're definite keepers.

Now here's the thing: Tomorrow I might be able to return the ones I don't like. Should I return the ones which fit but are not quite perfect? For $40 I feel I have a right to be picky. And if I do, should I try on the skinny, low rise, plaid jeans? They had one pair in my size, and those might be gone by tomorrow, but if they're not, should I give them a chance? Plaid? Jeans? Skinny low-rise? They might be severely unflattering, but they might be really cool, I'm not quite sure.

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I need jeans too and this post reminded me how hard they are to buy. I don't even know which ones I like. I used to like bootcut, but these days they look like hippy bellbottoms to me. I suppose straight legged/nearly skinny it has to be.

M is so lucky that he's a skinhead and his fashion is essentially a uniform that is dictated to him by the skinhead gods of 69.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have the same response to bootcut, and I have an aversion to bellbottoms because of how often I ended up wearing them when I was a kid, because I couldn't exactly choose my clothes to any great extent, I got whatever my grandmother wanted to buy for me and the choice was always from someone else's castoffs. And then when I was in high school the popular kids always tailored their own jeans to be skinny fit, so I have that in my brain as what looks good.

The lady at the store explained to me why jeans all fit different even if they're ostensibly the same style - apparently they have huge cutting machines that just chunk down through a whole stack of cloth, so the cloth on the bottom gets cut a little differently from the cloth on that top. And that's why you always have to try them on.

Uniforms always make life easier. :) I have a love/hate rel with the one I have to wear at work. It's dumb looking, but I save on buying clothes. Outside of work I wear the uniform of the nineties grunge kid - jeans, t-shirt, flannel. It's easy. ;) Eor gets a little bored of looking at it, I think. ;)