Chancho - 2012-10-20
Run! Run from your rocket made of heavy gauge steel!
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Stopheles - 2012-10-20
Shame on Levi's for moving their plants overseas (and selling 501s made in the US of imported fabric for 178 FUCKING DOLLARS A PAIR) - the fact that these are made in the US shouldn't be such a big selling point.
"THE JEANS THAT BUILT AMERICA" - does that mean only African- and Chinese- heritage men can wear them?
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Old_Zircon - 2012-10-20 US denim has been terrible since the 70s, if that imported fabric is coming from Japan it's actually being made on the old machines that were sold off when the major producer of denim in the US retooled to weave denim in much wider swatches (I think it's 20' vs the old machines' 6' swatch width), increasing production and profit at the expense of quality (the wider swatches necessitate a different weave that makes the cloth wear faster and shrink differently, thereby affecting the fit of older designs as well as their longevity). Short version is that if yo want "American made quality" you have to get your fabric from Japan.
At least that's what my roommate who used to deal vintage clothes told me a couple years ago.
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Old_Zircon - 2012-10-20 The made-in-Mexico 501s I wear are actually made from US-made fabric, ironically.
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takewithfood - 2012-10-20 Actually, Beck's jeans are supplied by the same denim mill (Cone Mills Corporation) that supplies Levi's.
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Stopheles - 2012-10-21 takewithfood, does that mean that they're made of domestically-produced fabric? Cone's website proclaims that it has "state-of-the-art, vertically integrated facilities in the US, Mexico, Nicaragua, and China."
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Jet Bin Fever - 2012-10-20
Thanks to all those foreign rocket experts that enabled us to compete in the space program. Yeah, America!
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memedumpster - 2012-10-20
These will go great with my Bin Laden jeans, hipsters who build rockets don't wear those either.
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HarrietTubmanPI - 2012-10-21
Steam engines also built this country but they're now obsolete. Jeans might have been a novelty 100 years ago, but now there are synthetic fibers and work pants that are more rugged and more comfortable - and less flammable.
I can't stand blue jeans.
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Rudy - 2012-10-22
Can something that was "built at a time when things were timeless" confidently be determined to exist?
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