Matt,
That is a nice story, but nothing about manufacturing, I'm a manufacturing engineer who wears jeans to work and has supervised over 1000 manufacturing laborers over many decades. There is simply no connection between these jeans and the jeans the workforce uses every day at work. Want to do something useful; make high quality, long wearing reasonable priced jeans in America for the American workforce, many of whom are overweight. Connecting these expensive specialty jeans to the people who actually need and use jeans for work and other intense activities is marketing BS.
tomcunFor clarification: The reference to manufacturing is a reference to the jeans being made in the US, from US-sourced materials. Much of what Carhartt makes, on the other hand, is outsourced to foreign countries, which might explain why the company's jeans cost $35. And as others have commented here in the past, this is the Men's Style Community. The EDC Community offers a lot of workwear you might be interested in.
That is a nice story, but nothing about manufacturing, I'm a manufacturing engineer who wears jeans to work and has supervised over 1000 manufacturing laborers over many decades. There is simply no connection between these jeans and the jeans the workforce uses every day at work. Want to do something useful; make high quality, long wearing reasonable priced jeans in America for the American workforce, many of whom are overweight. Connecting these expensive specialty jeans to the people who actually need and use jeans for work and other intense activities is marketing BS.