And always, always no boxers with jeans.

Maybe next year I'll revise that rule, but for now I think that dressed down should be really dressed down.

This is standard attire after work and on the weekend!

Being an iconoclast at heart, I don't limit the color of my Chucks to black or white.

almost there today another version is the white chucks old khakis and old white oxford cloth shirt, just as casual but just as classic for around the house

I love the look. But have had it with Levi for a while. As is well known, their sizing and quality is all over the place, making it too risky to buy on line. I could go to a Levi store - but standard 501’s are up around £80. They’re just not worth that much to me.
I’m pretty much living in a pair of Lee 101’s I found in TK’s for £30. HIP are knocking them out right now for £90 in most sizes. But even at full price they’re so much more than twice the quality of standard 501’s.
Seems to me Levi use the history of the classic/standard 501 to get sales - but if you want any quality you’ll be stepping up to LVC?

I just feel that when it comes to something like 501’s (or even Coca Cola or a Big Mac) luck shouldn’t come into it. There should be an ‘industry standard’. They’re buggering about with them to such an extent that there’s now a 501 ‘93. For those who want to perfect that classic 1993 look.
Last pairs of 501’s I got were same size. Same shop. Different washes, and two completely different fits.

@ spendthrift & Robbie, this must be an American standard. A few years ago I bought a pair of made in the USA Tellason, the fit and cut were great. A year or so later I bought another pair of the same make and style, but these feel a little tighter and the fit is a lot different. No wonder some are investing in Japanese made denim.

LVC 501s are now made of Japanese denim, since the demise of Cone Mills. I've been wearing them ever since they appeared on the market 15/20 years ago? Can't find any way to criticise them - I go for the '55 model, as that was probably the first pair I got back in '63, but they do a number of styles with slightly different fits. If you want a slimmer cut, I believe the '47s are the ones to go for. Mainstream Levis are total crap and have been for decades, living purely on the name, like so many other products that used to be great and are now basically tat: Weejuns, Barracuta, Burberry...the list goes on.

The USA-made 501s I've been buying are secondhand, faded down XL.  Not much choice when you get to be a fat bastard.  I shan't think seriously about any more until I lose something substantial from around the middle.  Two and a half weeks now on fish, fruit and Pellegrino.  A long walk each morning.  Retired, often restless, the 'limited pallet' I began to cultivate back in 2010 is even more limited now.  I would, however, like something dark which might benefit from the 'regulation turn-up'.  L.L. Bean would do me just fine.

Ah, that's interesting.  So they did have a zipper instead of buttons.

"Uncle Ian - Where did you get your first pair, was it Philip Grants in Hammersmith ? I'm not a jeans wearer these days but I took a look online at the 47's & 55's and like you in '63 they are just like the ones I bought at the end of '65, with a zip fly from PG's, I can't believe the eye-watering price of denim jeans these days"

I got them from a shop called Alf's, on Wandsworth Bridge Road, and yes they had a zip fly.
I don't think in real terms they're that much more expensive today - remember that the cheap jeans the melvins used to wear cost about ten bob from Tesco's or Woolworth's, so 42/6 was a lot of money to pay for a pair back then!

When one of my mates bought a pair of Wranglers back in about 67 to be 'different' he had trouble living down the ridicule. I tried to be different when I replaced by red tab (zip fly) jeans with orange tab around 69. I never felt comfortable with them or my mates reactions. I think then I moved onto Lee which I've stuck too ever since.

'Cheap jeans'.  Many bells rung, circa 1973.  'Give us the tag off yer Levis, mate'.  'No chance'. 
A lot of clothing was bought in shops like Big Six, Winstons, Nixons or off the 'open market': snide crombies and G9s, lurid socks, probably tank tops and Ruperts by the following year.  Lads were still wearing DMs from a place on Derby bus station that supplied to industrial workers well into the 70s.  Ahead of the game it was not.  Bill Gardner, though, reckoned you got a hot reception from the Derby boys.