Before Designer Jeans there was -

[Mark Sewell]

Hi Ted: When I left the MN in 1966 I got a job on the Wellington harbour masters staff Pilot boat crew and Wharf supervision. We were issued with a full kit of clothes including a tailor made double breasted blue surge suit, white shirts and black tie and yes a peeked hat. I wonder if it was your tailor that made the suits.

[Mark Sewell]

Hi Johnny. I remember the sixties We used to get on the Queen Mary on the New York run, buy Wrangler Jeans and Jackets and a box of 12 Denham shirts. and then get on the Aussie New Zealand run and fade the jeans and jackets in the Dhobie room on the way out and as you say do some trading. I do seem to remember some trading with Le Havre cognac and Havana cigars as well.

[Mark Sewell]

Hi John: I have been Reading articles about seaman's jeans but have not come across anyone talking about what you do when they wear out at the knees. I know that today they are called designer jeans and you pay a lot of money for them but in my day we would cut the legs off and make shorts, and using a dinner plate and a side plate as a template mark out two circles in the legs and make a peek cap. waste not want not.

[Colin Wood]

Some of the best work ware came from Frisco Paddies.

[happy daze john in oz]

Have not seen Wrangler jean sheer in Oz for years.
All we get now are the Chinese look alikes and they are not that good.

My mum told me I had my grand fathers genes, but somehow I could not see him in what we have today.

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Des, some years ago a colonel was inspecting troop who had been injured in battle.
He asked the first guy where he had lost his foot.
'In battle sir, shot by a sniper'
To the second he asked the same to a guy with only one leg
In battle sir, hit by a mine'

Then he came to the third guy, his jacket sleeves hid his hands and the Colonel thought, poor man, no hands.
Where did you get that he asked

'Burtons sir, and it is going back in the morning'

[Johnny Kieran]

That's a cracker John.

All the Wranglers seem to be made in Asia these days and are nothing like the old US made jeans. In fact I looked for some US made jeans a couple of years back to no avail, although I was told you can get them in some places. I was talking to one bloke who told me the jeans he'd just purchased were US made, I looked at the label and it said "Made in Bangladesh". Anyone know such a place in the US?

[Tony Taylor]

That's a cracker John.

All the Wranglers seem to be made in Asia these days and are nothing like the old US made jeans. In fact I looked for some US made jeans a couple of years back to no avail, although I was told you can get them in some places. I was talking to one bloke who told me the jeans he'd just purchased were US made, I looked at the label and it said "Made in Bangladesh". Anyone know such a place in the US?

It quite possible, after all Donald Trump went to Palestine the other day (pity it wasnt the original).

[Keith Tindell]

Always preferred Levi's myself, if you can get Levi originals, they are still made in the states, but best part of a hundred quid. Most of the other Levi's are made elsewhere.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Levi's where probably sent to China for manufacture, now that they are the balloons of the month in the US the US Govt are trying desperately to get back all those jobs they sent offshore.
I used to sell some jeans to the Cuba Street Yanks in Wellington, they didn't know they had never seen the sky's over the States.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

We had a chain of stores, Jeans Wets, we only sell the best was the slogan.
Yes they were the best from China, Bangladesh, Cambodia and a few from Indonesia.
have not seen any of their shops for some time now.