I Agree.I Still Have many Levi's 501 In Many Colors.Very Good Conditions Made In USA 90's Fabrication.Made In Mexico, Tunisia And Thaïlande Are Good But The Other Countries Making Them Badly 🤨
Blame Levi's for their poor quality control It's a pair of jeans, not a space ship. Any people in any country can make it. It depends on the brand owner to make sure their contractors use the correct material and methods to produce them.
@@johnyossarian9059 I do blame Levi's for their poor quality construction, fit and materials. It is their responsibility to maintain a high quality product, no matter where it's made. Like Coca Cola, American Rock & Roll, etc. they were, at one time, the envy of the civilized world. But ... the company chose quarterly profits over the quality of their products. The strange thing to me is that folks like CBS News don't seem to realize the change that has taken place. Maybe not too many of the CBS staff actually wore real Levi's (before the jobs were sent overseas).
Nothing even comes close to the original 501 blues. Tough as nails and it would take months to break them in, you knew what size you wore and didn't even have to try them on...
My Dad told me that when he was a sailor in the US Navy , in the south Pacific during WW2 , that they would wet their blue jeans and then wear them in the sun until they dried , This would mold the pants to their body shape and give a custom fit ! Me I am an old Hippie, bluejeans are my Hippie uniform !
Great story: I cannot immerse myself in a bathtub because I DO NOT HAVE ONE!! -- Signed, a Naval Academy grad and veteran who deserved SO MUCH BETTER than homelessness after serving in the US Navy
I've Known This and Celebrated Levi's 501 More Than 50 Years, I Always Wash in Cold Water 🌊💦 And Line Dry. I Tell Anyone Levi's Strauss Story to Anyone Who Will Listen, I'm Levi's Unofficial Representative. Classic is A Standard and Never Go Out of Style. Also Been Watching Sunday Morning 🌅 🌄🌅 since the Beginning 1979
When I was a kid, we didn't sit in the bath to get them the right size, but take them out of the dryer when they were still pretty damp, then we'd bend and squat every which way to get them just right. Then we pegged the legs, bleached them to death, and made our parents scream as they watched us "ruin" a good pair of pants. 😄
Sad thing is the "Front" Pockets are mad of "T-SHIRT" Cotton fabric, not denim, so The pants last years; Front pockets wear-out In on year with, key's/ Coins,etc. Front pockets should be Made with denim, Not weak "Cotton" T-SHIRT MATERIAL!
Levi's 501 ®Shrink to Fit are the way to go, but even the ones being produced currently or since around 2015/2016 aren't worth it. I can't understand for the life of me why Levi's® started doing that ridiculously small bottom hem on the current 501's® . Definitely not the same as the ones being produced in decades prior until around 2010-2012. I'm sorry, but I stopped having Levi's ® as my favorite brand since around 2010 when I got my first Wrangler ® 936's, and to be honest, the raw 13 MWZ Wrangler® jean is superior to the basic Levi's 501 in just about every measure; except for the thread used, but the denim is certainly a higher caliber. Fast forward years later and Wrangler® has become my favorite brand, I have so many pairs in different colors and shades and from different parts of the world, that I haven't even kept up. Also, Wrangler® polos are much cooler than Levi's ones and most of their western shirts are as well. For all these reasons, I'm quite pleased to see that Wrangler ® is beating Levi's currently in almost every conceivable measure. If you don't believe me, compare the stock value of Kontoor Brands (Which owns Lee ® and Wrangler ®). The stock value dwarfs that of Levi's® (despite all the praise and publicity that Levi's gets worldwide); and even if you split it in half (being that it's two denim corporations in one), the stock value is still more than Levi's®. Although the price of denim has gone up everywhere, you can pretty much guarantee that you will be getting a superior pair of Wrangler ® jeans for the current retail price that Levi's ® 501 jeans are going for these days. Don't believe me; the Wrangler ® Pendleton edition jeans have recently been marked down; obviously better fit and quality and perhaps still a few dollars cheaper than the current 501 STF trash jeans. www.wrangler.com/shop/wrangler-x-pendleton-mens-greensboro-jean-PEM12.html?merchCategory=search&dwvar_PEM12_color=112327203
I remember living in Idaho, and Montana as a child years ago being savagely bullied by mean, white kids. “You’re a Jew!”, or “You’re a K***” they would say, while wearing their Levi’s. …..My mom always told me to REMIND THEM that Levi Strauss was a JEW! (Ironic, considering what jeans the bullies were wearing, no?!?). 😂😂😂
The word Jeans comes from a twilled cotton fabric called ‘Genoa fustian’; often used to make durable workwear. Labourers in the United States referred to their workwear as ‘ Jeans’, after the city Genoa, where the fabric was initially woven.
Give me $200 for each pair of jeans, and I'll take them into grizzly country to get you some bona fide rips and holes! 🤣🐻😂🐻 (I'll buy my own life insurance policy - hah!)
@@lisamcdonald1820 Or people who don't know what something is can google/siri/alexa it: "what is a horse trough" The Levi representative should have told the history of shrinking jeans "Back in the old days, workers used to shrink their jeans by sitting in horse troughs. Since towns and people don't have those anymore, a bathtub will do"
@@susannpatton2893 Well said. I like companies that do what they do best like fast food place that don't try to serve every food under the sun. A great example of that is Chick-fil-a. They have sausage and bacon for breakfast, but everything else is chicken.
Has anyone seen this scary commercial where the two guys are out in the farm with a farm animal taking off t h e r e pants I mean seriously what are they going to do to that cow
