Looking for boyfriend jeans with NO rips

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I love the slouchy fit of boyfriend jeans. I have a pair from last year which are in constant use (M&S Indigo) and I really want another pair.

The trouble is, almost every pair I've seen in the shops are ripped. Shredded, threadbare, knees poking out....I don't mind a bit of distressing, but I'm 47, and just think it's too young a look for me.

They may look charmingly studenty on the youthful, but if I wear ripped jeans I look as if I've forgotten to change out of my gardening trousers.

Can you find me some suitably slouchy/boyfriend cut jeans that don't have rips? Below £50 please.

And sitting in the bath to shrink them to fit?
I was thinking about taking jeans in the other day and wondering how on earth I did it!
Also recommend ASOS Brady slim boyfriend (comes up big and long) and TOpshop Lucas slim boyfriend (very slim - more relaxed skinnies - and very short). No rips ...

Ha, yes to both of those. And rolling your tight jeans up to just above ankles. Then having people shout 'has your cat died' after you in the street.

Not sure where dead cats come into this, or am I too young to remember?

Trousers at half mast. Half mast = mourning. It confused me at the time - I had to question one of the gents involved as to the meaning of his quip.

Johnnie B?

While we're here, lets have a moment to remember Nick Kamen in and out of his 501s ... It'll set you up for the morning or possibly make you feel a wee bit old - i've not decided yet!

Thank you for doing all the hard work, Cointreau grin I too am 47 and 5.7, and have done the ripped jeans look back in the 80s, not doing it again. (Second hand Levi red labels from Flip...)

Ooh, yes thus exactly. I remember working away at the thread with a needle and sewing Liberty fabric in behind the rips.

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I remember working away at the thread with a needle and sewing Liberty fabric in behind the rips.

We used to do this and make matching scrunchies with the fabric!

Can I just say thanks for the memories Flip by favourite ever store, I had a second hand RAF jacket from there that I wore and wire and wore... Now have no idea when and where did I lose it?
Sigh...

I could also spell/type in those days - double sigh

dexter73 - my then boyfriend had vintage Levis jeans (Flip) with the Liberty patches fabric in and I had very short Levis cut-offs with matching fabric patches. Bless, we were 16 and thought we were so cool. And old vintage baggy men's suit jackets. Also from Flip. With DMs.

Oh the memories this is bringing back ... getting my friend's Aunty Margot who was a dab hand with the sewing machine to take in jeans that were already calf-crushingly skinny (or "tight", as they were called back then).

And then having to lie on the bed with a coat hanger hooked into the hole in the zip to pull it up.

Flip! Whatever happened to Flip?! God, I loved that shop. Got my donkey jacket there, which was the best thing ever (in 1984). Even my mum approved as it was "a good warm coat for the winter".

With DMs! Yes! We WERE cool. My favourite ever shorts - Levi cut off short but blue spotty fabric on the sides and to extend the legs. I want some now … Camden market for those babies.
And slightly off topic, tube skirts with hoop striped tights anyone? With DMs of course. Oh and a beret. That may have been a touch later?

www.flipvintage.com/

This thread has clearly attracted MNers of a "certain" age.