Business meeting eventuality

  • Business meeting eventuality

Recently I decided I don’t have enough time left in my life to hunt around thrift stores for jeans that fit really well. I started buying Levi’s again because I trusted the brand and I found a style I liked (511 Skinny—they’re not that skinny, and they don’t look like they’re from the 1990s [baggy]). Used to be you could buy a pair of Levi’s and you knew they were going to last through the years. That is evidently not the case anymore.

A year or so ago, I bought the first new pair of jeans that I’d bought in two decades. They were great, fit-wise and comfort-wise. Then, within six months, the left knee wore through.* Right around that time, I got a second pair as a gift. They were grey. Within six months, the right knee wore through. Discouraged and thick-headed, I bought another pair about six months ago. Tuesday, while I used the bathroom during a meeting with a client, the zipper broke. Levi’s, are your pants designed to self-destruct at the six-month mark? Why are you doing this to me? Anyway, I’m done buying Levi’s. Alas, I do not know who makes sturdy but fashionable denim jeans anymore. Do you?

*Commence dick-sucking jokes!

Grant Brissey covered everything from hard news and technology, to music, film, and visual arts during his time working for The Stranger. Grant's work has also appeared at Geekwire, and in Billboard,...