Levi's Men's 501 Shrink To Fit Jean
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Description of Levi's Men's 501 Shrink To Fit Jean
All the quality and details of the original 501 jean, made from rigid denim that you finish yourself
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Apparel reviews of Levi's Men's 501 Shrink To Fit Jean
Customer Review: Classic, Original, and 501 are meaningless, but these are the old-fashioned style
Rating: 5 Stars
If you're looking for the old-fashioned style Levi 501 jeans like the ones you bought in the 1970's or 80's, that are made of heavy denim and you bought them oversize and washed them hot to shrink them to size, at least one of the ones listed on this page is the right one: the Color: Rigid STF (at the moment it is the color at the far left).
It took many hours of searching and researching (researching blue jeans!) at several online stores and non-store websites to determine whether equivalents to my old ones were even made anymore, and if so, which ones they were. Levi calls countless styles Classic or Classic Fit, and countless others Original, and the 501 number was apparently successful, so they call a lot of them 501, too, to the point where these adjectives and style number have no meaning anymore. Classic and Original probably just mean they're Levi-Strauss, and 501 is meant to catch your eye. Maybe they hope you'll make lots of mistakes and have to buy lots of jeans while hoping to find the right ones. If it sounds like I'm joking about that, I'm not.
So it was with some relief that I got these, saw that they're the right style, shrank them down, and they're fine. There is even an improvement over the old ones: the button-fly holes are now are reinforced with stitching, which they didn't used to be. Mine say Made in Haiti; quality seems just fine. The denim is heavy-weight.
If you're looking for the type of old-fashioned plain style jeans that I described, the keywords to look for are: Rigid, Indigo, Shrink-To-Fit/STF, Straight Leg, Button-Fly, Rivets, and 501 (even though it can mean almost anything). When you're looking at an item description, the more of these keywords are omitted, the more suspicious you can be that you may be looking at an "impostor", possibly even an impostor style made by Levi itself.
Shop carefully. It wasn't an accident that I ended up with the ones I set out to buy. It took more than a day of traversing the Levi-Strauss style minefield.
Customer Review: The only ones that Fit!
Rating: 5 Stars
Ive worn 501 jeans since the late 60's when they were the "valueline" of jeans what else could we afford when there were several sons in the house? In fact my crazy brother used to split the seams on the leg so that mom could sew in extra fabric for some wild looking bell-bottoms!
For me they are still the value line and let me tell you why I am short with even shorter legs we are talking a 28' inseam which really hurts as it is impossible to find this inseam. Next time you get a chance ask how much it costs to take up an inseam, believe me it is expensive, if you can find someone even willing to do denim as it is a tough job. 501 jeans are made with a 31' inseam and the rule is you add 3 inches. 31-28=3 Perfect for me no trips to the tailor, no extra expense.
Everyone in their reviews keeps throwing out crazy ideas on washing. This is what I do when I first buy them I wash them with cold water then I throw them in the dryer regular heat and dry them till they are dry. From then on I wash them cold and hang them to dry. As big as a hassle it is to get pants the right length I am taking no chances, also drying clothing wears it out a lot quicker.
As far as the buttons being a hassle yeah at first they are a bit stiff but after a couple of washes even a clumsy fool like me can manipulate the buttons with ease. So please buy a lot of these jeans so they will stay in business even better if the length is 31.
Now if someone can provide me a solution for my expanding waist but thats the price I guess I have to pay for being married to a great cook.
Customer Review: The original and still great
Rating: 5 Stars
I have found that these shrink a bit less than what Levi's says. In the waist, they shrink about an inch as opposed to the tho inches that Levi's says. The leg shrinks about 2 3/4 inches, rather than 4. So don't buy them too oversized, unless you are going to be washing many times in hot water and a hot drier. Since most people like these dark nowadays, that is unlikely. Also, these are very well made. While much negative commentary concerning Levi Strauss's move away from domestic manufacturing has focused on the button-fly 501s, the bigger problem I have seen is with the old 1970's standby, the 505, which has a zipper as opposed to button fly. The variability on sizing and sew quality with the 505s means you really have to try them on to see how they fit. The 501 are much easier to buy online or by mail order because the sizing is much less critical on the waist, which is the so-called "anti-fit" waist, meaning there is no curve to the rise (the distance between the crotch and the top of the waist), because the original 501s were merely cut down bib overalls which were made to hang, rather than be fitted to the waist. The biggest problem I have noted on the 505's is the variability in size in the thigh area, meaning that some fit baggy and some seem rather tight, even though they are theoretically the same size of a label. The 501s are pretty safe as far as sizing.Customer Review: Pants!
Rating: 5 Stars
Good pants. One of the better pants out there. They used to be the best. The Levi's 501 set the bar. Not any longer. Now it's made in Mexico. No longer the best, but still better than most.
As a kid, we used to buy only Levi's. Back then, they were made right here in the old USA, and they were the best. My folks used to take us kids over to the Levi's building on Valencia Street, and we bought directly from the factory. Today's Levi's just don't measure up to what they used to be.
Get an old army surplus wool blanket.
Lay out jeans and trace a pattern about 2 inches larger along the entire outline.
Cut & sew together into a pair of ugly, green pants with an opening for the fly.
Flip your jeans inside out.
Insert jeans into army blanket pants.
Sew army blanket pants to jeans at the hem & waist.
Flip jeans right side out.
Wear.
You've just made a pair of insulated jeans that's better than anything lined with flannel. Wool blanket lined jeans. Nobody sells them. Nothing store bought will be warmer.
Customer Review: Not quite as durable as they once were
Rating: 5 Stars
I've been wearing the 501 shrink-to-fit style since the early 1980's. While they were once made of a heavier grade of denim, and were also once made in the USA from USA-made materials, the origins on these seems to drift around in Central and South America. Though I wish that the old "Big-E" style was still around, the reality is that these are an excellent product. Shrink to fit means that they start off feeling like cardboard and smell of the indigo dye process. After a few washings, they relax and within a month begin to become form-fitting. If you want jeans to wear out prematurely, buy the pre-washed, distressed and acid rinsed "fashion" jeans. If you want something close to what Levi Strauss made over a hundred years ago, then these are the ticket.