Levi's pulled my pants down !

[KurtNYC]

I am now ready for a career in plumbing or fixing TVs because Levi's decided to change the cut of their 505 jeans without telling anyone.

I guess I am guilty of "shopping like a man" because at least on some items, I just buy the same thing I got last time. So as one pair of 505s wore out, I went online (because I live in a town with no remaining brick-and-mortar shopping options) and bought another pair. Brand new. Pre-wash, ready to go. The same thing as last time, I thought.

I tried them on and felt a little draft. Pulled them up because they felt low. Took two steps and out comes the moon again.

Levi seemed to have no trouble giving new numbers to new models of jeans but now they just swapped out the old cut for this new cut. I'm in my 5th decade of this lifetime so I have a few questions for the young, in-shape and hip:

- will I ever get over the urge to constantly pull these up higher?
- would it be okay to wear these with suspenders, perhaps like the ones Robin Williams had for Mork?
- am I supposed to buy a thong now ?

[pscot]

1. Could it be

that you've grown just a skosh broader in the hip and thigh?

[KurtNYC]

2. I like how gently you put that.

No, they changed the cut and I just found a petition to change it back:

http://www.change.org/petitions/levi-strauss-co-bring-back-the-regular-cut-505s

[pscot]

3. Not I

Once upon a time, Levi ran an ad for a looser cut line of pants using that phrase.

[Hoyt]

4. I've had same issue with 505s recently. If I pull em up, I get groin strangulation. Butt crack it is

[marzipanni]

5. Is the zipper the same length as the zipper on an old pair?

I have to laugh at the 1 1/2- 2" zippers on super-low-cut "fashionable" jeans.
Or the other end of the spectrum, zippers on old man suit pants are about 12" long so they can hitch their pants up above the navel with a belt or suspenders if they are skinny. Wearing the pants low, below a belly, means they have to slant up toward the lower back which defies gravity.

If Levi's doesn't comply with the petition and make them with the old cut again... if you wear size large shirts buy large-long, for tall or long torso'd men, or in the winter, anyway,
you could try a lower back warmer belly band- (for men & women)
http://global.rakuten.com/en/category/underwear/mens/belly_bands/

[LiberalEsto]

6. MFM, wearing his new halo, gently manipulates the designers of the jeans

with the goal of helping more people become pantsless.

[alarimer]

7. They eliminated my favorite, the 550's

I hate low-rise jeans (or even the ones they claim are "mid-rise". Yeah, right!).

But really, the cuts are just too impractical on most of them. But I loved the 550s. Now I'll have to find something else since I have pretty much worn out my current jeans.

[dawg]

8. You can't buy pants without trying them on.

I bought two pairs of Levis dockers khakis, straight cut, 34 inch waist. One pair is so tight in the waist that it seldom makes it out of the closet. The other one is loose, and I have to keep my belt tight just to keep them from slipping.

[hedgehog]

9. It's a conspiracy!

http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/mens-short-sleeve-longtail-t-shirt-crack-spackle-74585.aspx

[DebJ]

10. I absolutely love their commercials. I'll come to the tv from another room when I hear one. n/t