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Good work jeans (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I've only recently been able to be picky about my clothes and now been trying to find a good pair of jeans that wont rip or tear.

I do a lot of labor so my jeans usually get pretty beat up, i don't really expect a pair to last forever but i haven't had a solid pair last more than a couple months without getting a tear. Every pair i have has both knees ripped open. I'll fix them with a patch but they always rip in a different spot.

I'd spend $200 on a pair that'll last at least year.

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[โ€“] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you say jeans, do you want them to be denim? Or are you open to other materials?

I work a labor job that is brutal on jeans/pants. Ive been wearing Mascot workwear pants for years now, and they are the most durable work pants ive ever had.

They have jean style pants as well as pants with extra cargo pockets, and the thing that I lovrle the most, they have pants with knee pad pockets. They have saved my knees!

I have worked this job for six years now and I'm on my second pair of pants. The first pair is beat to shit after all this time. Ive been patching them up over the years, I just bought the new pair early last year.

The pair I'm wearing now ive been wearing for close to a year and they have no rips, tears, or wear spots.

I'm not affiliated with the company, they just make good pants that I wear for work. The pants I buy cost around $140USD when I bought the most recent pair.

[โ€“] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I was thinking jeans, just because that's all I've ever really worn. But I ended up going with a Duluth overalls for working and a pair of denim jeans for going out.

Most of this summer I'll be building a second barn in a tick infested field and clearing out a big overgrown area on my property, so I feel like the overalls make a lot of sense. The knee pad pockets are what sold it for me. I was ready to order but debating myself, when I saw the pockets I threw in a set of pad insert and ordered. My current kneepads were my father in laws who he got from his dad, so basically non existent padding but better than nothing?

Needless to say I feel like a kid on Christmas