I suppose I have this coming to me, after the thoughtless lashing I gave my pretty friends for wearing such dreary, unflattering jeans it seems I’m having a denim based crisis of my own.
I only wear one style of jeans:
Lucky Brand Dungarees Giant Fit Style #6
(medium blue) 36w x 65i
I’ve got 6 pair of them. After the last dubtribe tour, the knees are all blown out in every single pair… Well, that’s not completely true, there was this one pair, the really light blue pair I don’t like very much, that had a light knee on the left and a tiny little wear mark on the right. I was, naturally wearing this pair all the time when a few days ago my toe grabbed ahold of the right knee’s soft spot and ripped a nice big hole. I fell over on the floor and looked up at my huge toe sticking out of the new opening in the leg of my pants. I didn’t have the spare dough for new pants until today. So I went out looking for a couple of pair of my jeans.
Bad news:
They don’t make them any more.
Worse News:
They don’t make anything which even vaguely approximates the feel, or look of my jeans.
Horrible News:
The clerk who helped me was very clear to mention more than a dozen times as we talked about my personal tragedy that giant fit jeans as just not fashionable anymore. She also said that they are not the current style, have gone out of style, and that no one is wearing that style these days. When I asked “So it’s really all about tight jeans?” she was nodding her head sagely before I was even done emphasizing the word really and finished my sentence with me.
I’m not a clothes horse (understatement of the century,) but I am a persnikity bitch when it comes to clothes, and style in general. I like what I like, and am not open to tight jeans as an option. Even the “baggy fit” and “boot cut” jeans they have left me feeling like Françoise Berugganat on vacation in the Yucatan.
Not wanting to relive all the fantastic memories of being dragged by my pale-orange vinyl harness through the boy’s department of JC Penny’s while my mother points out how cute the purple-ruffled buttondown shirts are, or how wonderful I would look in skin tight rust colored husky-sized coduroy whaler-bells (because I look sooo cute in rust,) I left quickly and quietly; Stumped, and resigned to my fate.
I expect to spend a couple of hours tomorrow cutting a new cartoon character’s costume for myself, or locating some dubious surrogate for my lost trademark denim.
Karma comes, so cruelly, so swiftly.
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Um, I think I can solve your dilemma. Perhaps not in the immediacy of the day but eventually. My suggestion: ebay. Good luck! E
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Sunshine- i have been having this same exact problem for years; specifically since JNCO stopped making good jeans and started making tents. that last 2 years or so i’ve been wearing random brands and fits. recently i needed a few new pairs, but could not find ANY style in my size at several different stores (i wear 36w x 34l). i finally found many styles in my size at, i’m almost ashamed to say this but, Old Navy.
i know you may hate the company too, but maybe try them if all else fails?
-sam.
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P.S. Yes, testing my theory, I just did a search for Lucky Dungarees on ebay and 272 items came up. 64 of those were mens.
I’m kinda renowned for being the person people look forward to seeing at a party partly because of my amazing costumes (mainly on the Moschino/Yamamoto/Matsuda/Comme des Garcons/Martin Margiela front) and it’s EXTREMELY rare that I would be wearing something great I didn’t find on ebay.
Because of your height it might take a little looking round but I bet you can replenish your six 6-es.
Just don’t get addicted ;)