Jeans

IMHO, of course - donate the new jeans to a Thrift Shop. Someone needs them. If you want to make a jeans quilt, ask friends/neighbors for those they're about to toss away. Garage sales are a great source too. Old soft denim makes the best quilt - gentle color variations, sturdy and quite warm. Polly

Jeans are a style, but always made from denim, and they were invented to be sturdy rather than comfortable. If yours are still in good shape, give them to someone who needs clothes. And try on your new pants until you do find some you enjoy wearing! Life is too short for uncomfortable clothing. Roberta in D

---------------------- So what, exactly, is wrong with these jeans? You don't say. I've done a number for alterations on jeans, from inserting gussets in crot ch, back center seam, leg inseam areas. Elastic can be inserted in the wais tband area. Wierdly enough,once upon a time, I re-built a favorite pair--le gs, seat, knees, for a client. Despite my warning: "You can buy two new pai r cheaper than this..." Jeans can be taken in on the side or center back seam, as well as the l eg seams. First thing I recommend if they are too big, is to wash in hot wa ter, and fry in the dryer. Sometimes one or two trips like this is the cure . I'm working on two new pair now, inserting long gussets in the inseams. The legs are so skinny that a 12 year-old would have trouble getting them o n. Once I got them on, the legs were were so tight, I thought I'd have to b e buried in them. Hardest part of the alteration was finding a material similar enough in we ight as well as color. (mint green and daffodil yellow; proper weight for p roper leg-hang of insert.)

As far as a quilt from jeans goes, I made one. Then I had to sleep under it. Couldn't roll over all night. Had to have help getting out of bed in th e morning. Weighty thing, it was. Probably has to be washed and dried in co mmercial machines. Not something I would make again. Cea

Thanks, Cea. I needed a laugh. Polly

wrote in part > The legs are so skinny that a 12 year-old would have trouble getting them on. Once I got them on, the legs were were so tight, I thought I'd have to be buried in them.

There is nothing "wrong" with them. I just don't find jeans as comfortable as everyone else seems to, Whatever the mass appeal of jeans is, I just don't seem to share it. However, it took actually buying a pair and trying it on to remind me of this fact.

Brian Christiansen

There is nothing "wrong" with them. I just don't find jeans as comfortable as everyone else seems to, Whatever the mass appeal of jeans is, I just don't seem to share it. However, it took actually buying a pair and trying it on to remind me of this fact.

Brian Christiansen

You are not alone, Brian! I think I might have tried a pair on once, but I have never bought a pair!! . In message , Brian writes

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:58:06 -0600, Brian wrote (in article ):

I have huge piles of jeans in all different sizes that some one (okay, more than one some one) has given me because "there is a lot of fabric there and you sew." I will probably use at least some of them to make placemats to use at the patio table.

They make a fantastic 'ground/picnic quilt'.... thick enuf to not let the dampness in and wash rther easily. to me, jeans were somthing worn when you were doing the barn chores. I do ahve a pair for hiking but haven't worn them in a coupla years now. Got them on sale and they have a nice beading up the sides of the legs and around the pockets so they don't really Look like chore jeans.

Good seeing you posting again

Butterfly

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Chore jeans? Now there is my problem. If I got rid of all my jeans you think the chores would go away? Years ago we collected dh's sis from Orange County/John Wayne airport. Everyone in the place had jeans on. DH wouldn't wear blue jeans for a good while just as a protest to the 'uniform' they were. He is back to them and chores too now. Taria

They make a fantastic 'ground/picnic quilt'.... thick enuf to not let the dampness in and wash rther easily. to me, jeans were somthing worn when you were doing the barn chores. I do ahve a pair for hiking but haven't worn them in a coupla years now. Got them on sale and they have a nice beading up the sides of the legs and around the pockets so they don't really Look like chore jeans.

Good seeing you posting again

Butterfly

________________ Brilliant thought! Will track chores to see if this lack of jeans works. That's what they were originally designed for--work--specifically, out West in the US of A: panning for gold, laying railroad tracks, breaking horses, plowing the back 40. Good old Levi Strauss saw a desperate need, and filled it. Surprisingly,though, since it is now associated with America, denim was originally made in France, and named for the--um, er, town or area--here my memory goes loosey-goosey, so I'll do this phonetically--De Nimes? Sigh. What's really scary is the crap I remember in order to fill in crossword puzzles. Anyway, I do a lot of gardening and yard work, and a pair of jeans will outlast any other pants, by three or four years or more. They also protect my legs from the slings and arrows of misfortune. Why, only Sunday, I wore a lightweight pair of regular pants, and spent a good half-hour screaming in pain, trying to disentangle myself from the rose bush. On the other hand, they are not comfortable to sit in for long hours at a work table or desk, unless extremely wide-legged. Cea

in the US of A: panning for gold, laying railroad tracks, breaking horses, plowing the back 40. Good old Levi Strauss saw a desperate need, and filled it.

originally made in France, and named for the--um, er, town or area--here my memory goes loosey-goosey, so I'll do this phonetically--De Nimes?

crossword puzzles.

outlast any other pants, by three or four years or more. They also protect my legs from the slings and arrows of misfortune.

good half-hour screaming in pain, trying to disentangle myself from the rose bush.

table or desk, unless extremely wide-legged.

Next time you feel the need to buy jeans you might want to try on the Lee Stretch Jeans and see if you can squat in them. These are my husband's favorite dressy jeans. Barbara in FL

"Dressy jeans" -- isn't that a bit of an oxymoron? That said, I pretty much live in jeans. My "dressy" ones are corduroy. A couple years ago I found a sale on corduroy jeans, they fit well, and I bought 4 pair in different colors. (I consider any pants cut like jeans to be jeans, regardless of fabric. Among other features, jeans have a yoke in back and patch pockets.)

Julia > Next time you feel the need to buy jeans you might want to try on the Lee

Maybe I should have said the Lee jeans are DH's nicest jeans that he wears when he wants to look his best in jeans for a picnic or a very casual party where most of the guys will be wearing their best jeans instead of khakis We are usually very casual and wear shorts most of the time. Today in Florida the temps should get up to 80. Barbara in Florida

Those jeans with a bit of stretch hold their color a lot longer than all cotton ones so they look new longer. Life is pretty casual in so cal. There are few places you can dress really nice and not feel out of place. : ( How is your son doing Bobbie? Taria

Maybe I should have said the Lee jeans are DH's nicest jeans that he wears when he wants to look his best in jeans for a picnic or a very casual party where most of the guys will be wearing their best jeans instead of khakis We are usually very casual and wear shorts most of the time. Today in Florida the temps should get up to 80. Barbara in Florida

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