[mjohnson]

That those jeans were bought by someone in San Diego is interesting - I thought that the Japanese collectors were the ones that were outbidding and hoovering up all of this very old vintage stuff.

And here I thought I had "vintage" 501s when I noted that they still said "Made in the USA". From 1995 or so I think. And BTW a 1995 32x32 is not a 2022 32x32 in a similar way that mrs mjohnson is a size 8 or 10 in the fancy section of Nordstrom yet somehow a 0 or 2 at Banana Republic.

Me, I've moved on from Levis as their fits got really inconsistent and the denim quality went quickly downhill in the last 20-30y. Yes, they're a splurge, but Naked and Famous is proper Japanese fabric woven on pre-war US looms (so it's very "interesting" with old school character) and have no Chinese slave/Uyghur cotton content, then they're built by happy Canadians up there in Canadia. I'm a desk jockey but even with that use they last at least 3x as long as Levis and they have slim fits that work for normal skinny-ish guys that don't want to look like hipsters.