High rise tapered selvedge jeans

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High rise and taper below the knees? Wouldn't that look a bit too much like a ladie's trousers??

 

You can try on the Levi’s vintage clothing 1954 501xx.

If you are used to wear skinny jeans though they still might feel loose around the ankle.

As an aside, I find that while a longer inseam works on slim/skinny cuts it doesn’t on fuller cut jeans which benefit from a more dress pant style length and a cuff.


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Why not buy a pair of selvedge high rise jeans and have them tapered to ‘your choice’ by a tailor or seamstress?
In non selvedge you might take a look at Levi’s 511’s skinnyfit or in selvedge Lee 101 rider lot no 49 narrow loom Selvedge.

 

Yes a seamstress will pin the seams to your liking and make a taper by reducing both seams (and leave enough of an opening to get your foot out), In the north of the U.K. an alteration like this would cost around £20 or less.

 

Just tried on Nudie Jeans CO. In their Dude Dan cut. I think they are what you're looking for. Nice rise (not super high, but nice and comfy like my 505s with slim legs (7" hem width- or so).

 

Big fan of Nudies back in the day. Personally, I go with the classic vintage fit for my jeans - wide leg and high waist - and find them far more flattering than skinny types. I think people have visions of the 80s pants when they think of high waist jeans - I had a pair that were ridiculous: the tapering was so steep they almost curved in at the bottom! I recommend a pair of Freddies of Pinewood as a starter (very reasonable) or Lee 101B vintage, both are a really nice comfortable jean that flatter the wearer.

 

I also tried on A pair of Flat Head 30oz denims...
Not sure if they count as fabric...more like cardboard

 

As a starter for vintage classic fit at a great price, you can't go wrong with Lutece MFG. I'm in love with mine!

 

Just bought a new pair of Rogue Territory “Standard Issue.”
They call them mid-rise but if you look attheir numbers on the site i think you’ll find they are what pass for high these days.

 

I tend to agree myself; the only time I've ever had an issue with my jeans being "too wide" was the time I went to a Sixties theme party as a Rocker; it was a nightmare trying to get my wide-leg jeans *inside* the MC boots (of course, that aspect of my costume was inaccurate, but damned if I was going to spend on a pair of sixties cut jeans I'd never otherwise wear for a one-of!).

My top picks at the 'budget' quality denims are:

1] Prison Blues - not selvedge, but if that doesn't matter to you (and if you don't cuff them, no-one will ever know anyhow), these are fantastic, hardwearing 13.75oz with a great ethical project behind them.

2] Soldier of Fortune - www.sofmilitary.co.uk - look in the reenactor / repop section for USN 'deck' jeans. The re-enactor crowd have rubbished them for USN accuracy, but for about GBP50, you'll get a cracking pair of 14oz selvedge denim jeans that are at least as good as the Freddies (now GBP100). The big plus is that the wider-leg 40s version in SoF comes with the back buckle in a place where it can't get in the way if you want to wear a belt - they also don't have the studs for braces that get in the way of a belt like on the Freddies 40s. They also do a model without the back buckle. A third variation, billed as 30s, is actually very similar to the 50s cut Freddies. They're inferior to my SJCs by a long way, however if you just want a pair of period-cut jeans to kick about in or actually wear as workwear, they're perfectly adequate.

Keep wearing them for awhile before you decide on the taper - you might find you grow to prefer the wider leg. Clearly you've discovered the vast improvement in comfort that a higher waist affords! I could never go back to anything less than a 13£ rise now, and even that is pushing it....

 

I'm too slim for wide leg jeans - they flap around like giant sails. I am tall with a 32 in waist so I get the slim version of the classic $25 Wrangler 13MWZ.

 

Yeesh, that's hardcore!

Those are the German ones aren't they? I have a half-remembered notion that's who makes the Soldier of Fortune ones.