[Closed] Tesco Jeans.......

the answer is in the question.

just the same as howies/levi's etc... honest...

They just come with, if you are lucky, genuine child slaves blood.

Does that make them worth any more?

A tenner......you extravagant bastid 😉

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Three quid?? For real??

You can't beat that, eh??

(Expects someone to come along to attempt to justify £120 jeans at some stage shortly)

Do you get free clumpy white trainers with them?

You can buy jeans for £120...

There are far too many shiny bike bits for crazyness like that.

[i]You can buy jeans for £120...[/i]

Yeh and you get expensive ones too.

just the same as howies/levi's etc....They just come with, if you are lucky, genuine child slaves blood.

Yeah, like Levi's are made by middle class housewives in Surrey getting paid £12.50 an hour. 😉

Ask the little Vietnamese kids who make them*, they should know.

* Pure speculation on my part, I'm sure in reality they're made by skilled operatives on £45K / annum 😉

Can you get them in skinny fit?

Three quid?? For real??

You can't beat that, eh??

The trouble is with cheap jeans is that you end up looking like Jeremy Clarkson whatever age you are.

Can you get them in any sort of 'fit'?

Used to work as an expat briefly in some of these factories, all grim by our standards but by local standards often not. Queues round the block to get work people walking 40 miles for a chance of a job.

Any how, I remember an engineer spilling a load of oil, the supervisors grabbed handful of 501's to wipe it up rather than use paper towels etc.

There will be a difference in quality with the Tesco ones but it’s in the design and while the Tesco ones cost a couple of quid to make a pare the 80 quid Levi's cost 3 quid.

Tesco clothes are shit!! I bought some cotton cargos that have lasted two weeks at work, and apparently the fleeces which I also bought are made out of recycled plastic, which have caused a nice case of eczema on my elbow!! Cheap = shit

The trouble is with cheap jeans is that you end up looking like Jeremy Clarkson whatever age you are.

Stuff like that's not meant to be 'high fashion' though, is it? If you just want a cheapo pair of jeans for working in and that, then they're probbly perfect. Why waste money on spensive ones?

There will be a difference in quality with the Tesco ones but it’s in the design and while the Tesco ones cost a couple of quid to make a pare the 80 quid Levi's cost 3 quid.

This is the bit the 'designer' brands don't tell you. They're pretty much all made in sweatshops in China or wherever.

Wrightyson - so are Patagonia fleeces, nothing to do with cost.

and apparently the fleeces which I also bought are made out of recycled plastic, which have caused a nice case of eczema on my elbow!! Cheap = shit

Sorry, I thought most of them are. I thought that was a design feature, not an indication of low quality.

On the one hand, people want something to do with all those recycled plastic containers, and then when they do, the enviromentalists are slagging them off. You cant win...

I have no problem with my tesco work jeans..........specially as it gives some poor kid in a third world country a bit of pocket money.

Mind you.....you wouldn't catch me wearing any of your poncey Waitrose jeans.

These are just any old jeans... these are middle class, middle aged, badly fitting, M&S jeans...

I don't know how people could be seen dead in such cheap tat.

So what do you do after you've shopped around for the most expensive pair of work jeans you can find.........leave the price labels so that everyone can see how much you've paid ?

It does make me smile when I sometimes see blokes on building sites wearing Levis, specially when I know that they're on pisspoor money.........sad really though.

Brother In law works in the plastics industry and i think there are different "levels" of the recycled plastic used! I'm sure breathability has a certain ratio to the amount of Evian bottles In a fleece!?

Your eczema is not 'caused' by the fleece, but by an allergic reaction to chemicals in the material. Probbly fine on other folk. The cheapness has absolutely nothing to do with it at all.

Can't beat tesco's for value
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I don't know how people could be seen dead in such cheap tat.

Maybe they just don't care what others think of their dress sense, or maybe that's all they can afford.

Clothes maketh not the man...

i wear tesco jeans working in the lab and pottering about... they are grand, good fit and hard wearing... deniem is a little rougher mind.

Yes, they are fine but not for me because of the shitty pockets.

30 pairs will last longer than levi's but at no point will they be nicer. Depends what you are afte I guess.

Go to Selfridges and its easy to find jeans for a £500+, I dont get it, just like some people don't get a pair of £80 jeans.

They are all Jeans

I've got quite a few pairs of jeans, I think the most expensive ones are probably around £50ish.

My favourite pair cost a tenner.

Gap for me, but just for 36" leg length, probably £30 a time and still going strong 10 years on. They will be a crap design/fit and fairly ropey material.

I work with a lot of imported good from the far east.

I know for a fact that some clothing items in Primark are manufactured in the same factory and with the same material as items in Mothercare - very different price points, same cost price.

Forget Tescos, get to a charity shop. Cheaper, proper branded quality jeans, not that used, for 3-4 quid. and you can jean happy that your cash is doing something useful. I buy most of my non-cycling gear from charity shops, you'd be amazed at what you can find. It's not cos I'm all ethical and caring, it's cos it's cheap and good quality and almost new!

And I got flamed for buying a pair of Quicksilver jeans?

With regards work gear, I probably pay more for that than going out gear actually.

Dewalt trousers & kneepads - £50
Snickers Hi-viz winter trousers - £70
Regatta Softshell (cheapo) - £30
Dewalt Goretex boots - £80
Hi-viz Goretex jacket - £120

Kevevs +8.

(I've got a big family.)

Charity shops FTW!

Better than this..
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(google image search showed this pic to be from STW 😯 )

I get my Howies jeans from TKMAXX.
£25 each. Win!

You had to spend a moment of your life in TKMAXX.
Fail! 🙂

the briefest. And I didnt inhale 😛

Unfortunately, your denim dreams of £3 a pair will be just that soon...

[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8349425/The-end-of-Chinas-cheap-denim-dream.html ]The-end-of-Chinas-cheap-denim-dream[/url]

Tesco value jeans went up to £4 a few months back. I found that ^ article unconvincing. I don't know how much a Chinese worker gets paid for the manufacture of a pair of jeans, but I doubt whether it is much more than about 50p for each jeans. So even if they were to double a Chinese workers wages, it would only add about an extra 50p on each pair of jeans. Whether you pay £3, £5, or £10, for a pair of jeans, it still represents very cheap clothing.

I do believe that the days of cheap goods from China (with their deflationary character) specially in more general manufacturing, are drawing to a close though, but that isn't simply because of increases in manufacturing labour costs.

The global credit crunch/recession (which the Tories tell us was all the fault of Gordon Brown) has taught China the folly of over dependency on an economic strategy based on export led growth. China suffered significantly in the global credit crunch/recession, despite the fact that the Chinese economy was relatively sound.

As a consequence, China short term, started building up its internal infrastructures and capital projects, roads, railways, etc, as a stimulus to deal with the slow down in economic activity (as indeed Gordon Brown and other world leaders also did to an extent) But long term, they have recognised the importance of developing their own internal consumer markets.

Partly because they realise that western economies and their markets are not reliable, and their own internal market is potentially [i]huge[/i], but also partly, to head off urban/rural political pressures which their lopsided meteorical economic rise has created, and threat that poses to the Chinese political elite.

So cheap manufactured goods from China will eventually become a thing of the past. In the same way that cheap manufactured from Japan also eventually became a thing of the past.

Of course for a time at least countries such as India or Brazil might become a new source of cheap manufactured goods. But that will potentially also have a limited life. Besides by then, consumers in the West will very likely be competing with the new consumers in China. The days of Western purchasing power are also drawing to a close.

From only last week's news :

[url= http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9LKPMBO3.htm ]China plans sweeping economic change[/url]

Quote :

[i]"The latest Five-Year Plan -- a throwback to central planning but a useful roadmap of party goals -- calls for creating self-sustaining growth based on domestic consumption and reducing China's reliance on exports and investment.

The leadership has said for years that China needs to alter a system Premier Wen Jiabao has declared "unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable." But they avoided major reforms until the global crisis wiped out millions of export-dependent factory jobs and drove home the danger of overreliance on trade."[/i]

tescos £20 jeans fit amazingly well and come in many different sizes, which is handy because I am a weird length for my waist.

cherokee jeans? i`m the opposite shape to you and the £22 jeans they sell fit better than anything ive ever bought!Bought another pair and might buy a third pair as once they go,the search for jeans that fit "like the ones you used to own" can take decades!!

I wear Tesco £3 jeans.
You can't get a higher recommendation than that. I am the coolest dude on STW.

This is true, MTG... 🙂

Are the rumours about you filling Galliano's now vacant position at Dior true, then?

It's already happened.
We should have the new range of Christain Dior map boards on the high street ready for the spring season.
No cycling dandy should be seen without one.

The global credit crunch/recession (which the Tories tell us was all the fault of Gordon Brown)

Did they ? 😯 Must have missed that.

Please don't end up in an Anti-Semitic slanging match with other cafe patrons though MTG. 😐

Try to pay attention then allthepies.

No Tory politician can talk about Britain's economic situation with blaming everything on "the last government".

Or have you been spending time away from the reach of newspapers and the television ?

No Tory politician can talk about Britain's economic situation with blaming everything on "the last government".

and there isn't a Labour politician who hasn't been born again whiter than white with no memory and the sole line that the current government is dragging us all down.

Another turn of the handle, another chance to distance themselves from what went before. It is ever thus in politics, regardless of party.

Well I've heard the previous government blamed for the state they left the UK economy in but I haven't heard them being blamed for the credit crunch/global recession.

I'm not an economics gnu but they're two different (albeit related) issues aren't they ?

I have two pairs of Tesco jeans and the zip is fracked on both of them, now in the cleaning bikes pile, I think they were the upmarket line at £5 or perhaps women just have to pay more like hairdressers.

My Levis are a much better fit, they are shaped better and seem to stretch to fit it's not just advertising, and they are still going strong. They were about £60 I think.

Cant stand wearing showy designer brands, it just seems too much like vanity. I mostly wear unbranded, Tesco, TKMaxx et al. M&S do quite tidy water resistant jeans BTW.

I haven't heard them being blamed for the credit crunch/global recession.

The Tories very clearly blame the last government for all the consequences of the global credit crunch/recession.

One can only assume that the Tories hold the last government responsible for global credit crunch/recession, otherwise why blame them ?

BTW, I use the word "Tories" as a generic term to describe members of both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties.

Cheap jeans usually have a horrible fit.

What, rolling around on the floor, foaming at the mouth ? Mine have never done that.

Cheap jeans [s]usually[/s] always look cheap, surprisingly.