( 11 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 19 2008
Once upon a time there was a boy named Johnny. Now, Johnny really didn't need much to make him happy. He needed his Led Zeppelin records, he needed his current issue of Mad Magazine, He needed his package of grape Bubble Yum chewing gum, and he need his Levi's shrink-to fit 501's. He couldn't go anywhere without them. Even after he beat them to hell, he'd end making them into shorts. But this boy named Johnny grew older and he learned that there were other things that made him happy. His once tiny waist of 27" grew to a size 34" and although it didn't distress him as much as one might think, what distressed him more was the price of his beloved Jeans. Not only did the price go up, but it seemed as though the quality of a childhood favorite went down. He'd get holes in the knees and in the crotch area and yet he was no longer playing football in the yard or rough housing with friends' in the park. He wondered why he should continue to buy an inferior product and so he stopped and started wearing another Levis product, Dockers, the very pants he swore he would never wear. Two thousand moons went by and Johnny...now known as John...saw a rather strange sight; a sale on 501's at the local department store. Now this was a very rare sight so knowing that he might never again come across such a discovery in this lifetime, John got two pairs. As was his his standard ritual, he washed them about five times in row with a lot of fabric softner. When he went to take them out of the washer and put them on the line to dry, he noticed that some of the buttons on the jeans were already coming loose. John was heartrbroken. He remembered a time when things got old naturally; when there was quality built into things. He remembered when greed didn't enter into every equation. He would tell people half his age how music was, at one time, pressed on large vinyl discs, and phone calls were made and received inside a dwelling -- usually a home, when cars lasted longer than five years, and a sitcom didn't have five subplots going on in one half hour show. John put the jeans in a bag and took them to his local Goodwill. As he said good-bye, he realized he was also saying good-bye to a certain part of his life he could never again retrieve. On his way home, he purchased a Mad Magazine and some grape Bubble Yum. He went home and put on Led Zeppelin II on his late mother's 1972 Magnovox Hi-Fi. Immersed in things he once loved, he realized that time stops for no one. He wrapped his gum in a page from the magazine, put the record back in its sleeve and stared off into space. One can be nostalgic and look at the past, but one should never attempt to recreate what once was. The King of Jeans is no more. :( Peace & Blessings, john, 'the Light Coach'
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Posted: Mar 26 2008
These jeans look great and fit perfect. I would buy from this vendor again.
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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 11 2008
but they're still a great pair of jeans. I mean, they're the definative. Make sure you get the "Shrink to Fit" too. If you don't like the button fly, and I can understand where that fly could be a problem, try the 505s. They're the same jeans sans button fly.
