The correct answer is there is no patch, because real metrosexuals are vegan and don’t buy leather
The patch on 501’s is paper…
Many jeans have vinyl patches that looks like leather. And I thought real metrosexuals photosynthesise, like the delicate flowers they are…
You could just get a normal wallet that does the one job its supposed to…
It does one job very, very well, protecting the contents from damage like getting wet, or just being sat on all the time. It has a loop for attaching a lanyard to keep it safe, mainly from scumbag pickpockets, but my work trousers have stupid little pockets with a silly button flap that the buttons get ripped off of.
People lose leather wallets all the time, I’ve not lost one ever, and my Pelican stays in proper pockets, just not silly ones on Dickies work trousers and shorts.
They’re rubbish, but i don’t have to pay for them.
Selvedge is an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unravelling.
in 19c/early 20c novels its sometimes used as a metaphor to mean (in modern terms) the crappy bit of life that nobody really wants. Or in more literal terms, the cheaper cuts of fabric the the poor make their curtains and furnishings out of.
Never come across selvedge as a metaphor for a crappy bit of life that nobody wants, because, as your previous definition points out it’s the edge of a width of fabric designed to prevent it unraveling, which, if applied to life should indicate something of great worth.
Methinks your attempt to make a smartassed snarky comment about people paying over the odds for a quality product has just fallen flat on its ass.
The fact is that when denim became highly popular during the sixties into the seventies and on, manufacturers couldn’t keep up with demand on the narrow looms that selvedge denim had been traditionally woven on, and natural indigo dye too expensive, so the looms were sold off and wider looms producing chemical dyed cloth in wider batches took over. The prices didn’t drop, though.
The old looms were bought by the Japanese who carried on producing heavyweight denim dyed with natural indigo, in much smaller batches, from which fewer pairs can be produced.
As anyone who isn’t a complete idiot should know, any product manufactured in smaller quantities, using higher quality materials, is going to charge higher prices.
It’s the principle of supply and demand, innit.
Of course, a pair of jeans made from 20oz, natural indigo selvedge denim, and probably largely hand made, if looked after, will likely last ten or twenty years, my 501’s are forty years old.
A pair of 10 or 12oz mass-produced chemical-dyed denim might not last last two years, but still cost £80-90, if not more; I’ve seen pre-ripped jeans, made from thin denim costing £170!
A pair of £250 20oz selvedge jeans could easily last ten times as long, while costing only about a third as much more.
Here endeth the lesson. 😉