Losing The Denim Blues

Racking my brain for a new fresh relevant topic for discussion, I settled on posing this question in the style of my occasional virtual, no hanky panky, assisted living courtyard dine and wine date.

So I will just blurt it out. Do you still wear denim jeans? If so when, where, and why? Do you wear just blues or does your wardrobe, closet, or floor boast other colors? How about the old striped bibs know as overalls or overhauls depending if one was gnawing on a piece of straw as they spoke of such a garment?

The thing about overalls is not only farmers but also railroad engineers seemed to take a fancy to them. I never liked wearing bibs, regardless of the striping or even the solid color ones that carpenters took a shining to. In my years doing carpentry, I preferred regular jeans and a tool belt. I kept that big fat flat carpenter pencil in my bushy hair so no need for trying to get it in that hard-to-find pocket under my chin.

Yes, I still wear denim blue jeans every day. I have all weights of denim for seasonal use and several styles. Old age has me wearing the old-style high-waisted mom jeans style exclusively. I donated all my lower waisted after my physical therapist noted that with a waistband small enough to hold them up when I sat, it was digging into my sciatic nerve and causing my back injuries to become inflamed, causing a painful lateral shift.

Blue is my favorite color whether light or dark. I hate the destroyed look. I still can't believe that young ladies pay good money for such destruction. All the wealthy trendsetters want a poor look. I guess that is being woke.

Remember the bell-bottoms and the tight pedal pushers? All they did was modify the bell-bottoms for a lesser bell and named it the bootleg. Since few ride a bike anymore the pedal pushers were renamed capris.

Catching the hem of a straight leg or bell-bottom jeans in a bike chain usually led to making cutoff shorts.

So do or did you cuff the bottom of your cutoffs? My preference was to sew a straight stitch about 1/4 from the bottom so after they raveled it was stopped and I could then cut it off, even, giving a nice fringe look, rather than a survivor of a savage dog attack appearance.

I remember when other girls were developing noteworthy chest and I wasn't, I didn't hem to prevent ravel and after several washes and beating the cut almost indecently short cutoffs, against a sturdy fence post, and then satisfied with the length of white strings hanging randomly, I sashayed over to the neighbors where the three boys had failed to notice I might be losing my tomboy status. Their mother exclaimed, "Good lord Faye, are you alright? Did they test the dog for rabies?" It was then I repented and started my controlling hemstitch. I didn't want my image as a quick draw revolver specialist tarnished with the image of a dog besting me.

So tell me, do you still wear jeans in your old age advanced years senior days? What are your memories of the years that boasted a revolution in denim bottoms styling?

 

We both wear Wrangler Boot-Cut jeans. Nothing else for jeans. Only the Wrangler brand.

During the summer months, it's cargo shorts for me and regular shorts for my wife, along with our Walking Shoes, t-shirt for me and summer blouse for her. On our boat and to grocery store. When it comes to going to a rodeo, or stopping in at local livestock auction to watch, it's always our Wrangler jeans.

Wintertime, when we go anywhere, it's always Wrangler jeans time.

 

Yes I wore jeans and in the 60s we
pegged ' the legs,did you ever peg your pants leg?
We also laid down across the bed to fasten the waist.

 

Never as a teenager. They weren't in style for girls where I grew up way back then. In my early desk job couch potato working days I wore jeans occasionally, but not at work. Just for outdoor gatherings, like cookouts, company picnics.

Now, around the house or working in the yard, I find they bind too much around the knees to squat down. Even if you get them larger size. Also rather hot for the south in the summer. They are good for walking though briars.

I'd like to try a pair of the high wasted ones, but I'd have to order them, and don't care for the hassle of returns in order to get the right size.

 

My wife will still do this sometimes. She likes the waist part of her Wrangler jeans tight. Not really tight, but tight.

 

Yes, it is hard to find a pair of high-waisted in local stores. If you have an American Eagle store anywhere you visit, you could try them on, and they have the best selection both in a lightweight and a heavier also in a looser fitting in the thigh with stretch that is my favorite for working. It is very easy to squat, get on your knees, or bend over, with no binding or restriction. I was lucky to get my size and fit on the first online order. The only thing I have returned to them was bras and their return process was very efficient and free.

 

I'll leave the jeans to the teens or younger women now i like comfort and easy. More into skirts,dresses and elastic in winter pants summer shorts. My waist isn't always the same size during the day.

 

I never had to lay down to fasten my waist. I did modify some of my lighter-weight jeans to a taper or peg leg during my high school years. I mainly wore straight legs that fit over boots since I was a ranch girl. I wore mainly homemade skirts or dressy pants to school as that was the norm back then and on Fridays, jeans were allowed if not over tight.

 

Well, Johnny, you could wear slacks, camo, or shorts, but jeans look best on guys in my opinion. I guess if you are Scottish you might opt for a kilt.

 

You don't seem like a country girl to me not sure why though. I had the best of two worlds a city girl and country girl. We had a place in town Atlanta and country Stone Mountain when it was mostly dirt roads. Back then you could take a bus up to midnight at 11 with a friend to all the movies in Atlanta and never worry about any trouble,now you need tank to go downtown. Even the bus drivers watched out for us not that he had to.

 

Well nothing wrong wwith a sharp dressed man either. of course jeans look ok too.

 

I wear jeans occasionally, but only in winter. I also like "jeggings" that are a stretchy denim legging. In spring, summer, fall, and most of winter I wear shorts. I'm all about comfort.

My husband wears jeans most of the time but occasionally carpenter or cargo shorts. He's still a Levis guy and he looks good in them.

 

Well, being new to the forum you missed out on my stories of growing up on a Mountain cattle ranch in the Colorado Rockies. I also spent time on relatives' ranches in Texas. During my 20s and 30s, I lived in the remote mountains off the grid, built my own log cabin, etc., and did construction work for the most part along with ranch work. I also did some government work. I was a freight ranch delivery driver during my 40s and early 50s. After leaving the mountains, I have lived on the outskirts of a medium-sized town. The country is just a few blocks away. I only lived in a city to go to Broadcast Engineering School and work at a large commercial audio repair and that was less than two years. "I was country before being country was cool" as the song says.