Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
by tonyedgecombe on Sunday July 20, 2025 @09:42AM
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> ASDA (owned by Walmart now, not sure about then)
Not any more, they got bought by two rather dodgy petrol station owners.
FIVE, POUNDS.
Crazy cheap by any measure; they were extremely thick, to the point where you could stand them up with no person inside them. They lasted me for over 10 years.
New jeans (at any price point) seem to wear out in the inner thigh inside of a year, and I am not as active as I was back then due to age. I also haven’t gained a significant amount of weight to account for this. I thought it could be caused by cycling, but I stopped cycling and the wear outs still happen. I thought it could be the quality of what I was buying so I bought more and more expensive jeans, alas, the same was true.
The best Jeans I ever owned are simultaneously the cheapest.
(side note; I also noticed that nearly all Jeans these days contain “elastane” which is basically plastic, which probably contributes to the degradation - Elastane didn’t exist for jeans in 2005, they were mostly still 100% cotton until the legging jeans fad and then it started making its way into normal jeans).