I’m retired spend most of my time in my workshop or doing maintenance on outbuildings on our rural property. I really like Dickies Duck Logger pants, but they seem to wear out quickly. I have three pairs that get worn almost constantly in rotation. The oldest pair is now just over two years old and is worn out - I’ve repaired the seam in the crotch once, but now the fabric either side of it is thread bare. My phone has worn trough the bottom of the right front pocket.
Are there similar pants that will last longer, or am I expecting too much?
I’m in Canada.
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I’ve heard good things about SOSO 33oz, not tried them personally though.
Pants will wear out. I wear Carhardt washed twill pants every day. They hold up really well for heavy jobs, but won’t last forever. I have several pairs that are ratty and reserved for extra dirty work. At most, they last me 2 years before they look like hobo pants.
I don’t like the cut of dickies, and they aren’t as tough as the carhardt washed twills.
The washed twills are $35-50 US. Beyond these pants, everything else is a trade-off. Better pants, kuhl, 5.11, Deluth, heavy duty Carhardt Duck; all more expensive, some to a laughable extent.
Come join the Carhardt gang.
Duluth Fire Hose Flex 45507 have held up well for me, so much so that I have 7 pairs. The only crotch I had get damaged was when I got them hooked on a scaffolding platform hook. My Keybar did wear through the back pocket from moving around on masonry. I am probably going to start switching over to a heavier weight 92204.
I would like to try out the Alec Steele 01 G1, but they sell out fast and runs are infrequent.
after passing through various marks, i stuck with blaklader!
Wow - $230 a pair (with tax and shipping). Do you get 8+ years from them?? I do like the look of them though - the front pockets look big enough that you can get things out while wearing gloves?
that surprised me and i had to check.
north american catalogues don’t have all the options and it seems to be much more expensive there.
i get 3 years at least but it’s a lot cheaper in Europe
What i like about blaklader is that you can get the pockets out of your pockets 🙂 and everything becomes more accessible
Looks like a Canada problem. The most expensive pants are 160 to where I live in the us
Carl Murawski made a video in a similar style to ProjectFarm comparing different brands of workpants.
ProjectFarm themselves did a couple videos testing the durability between different brands of jeans. The first one focuses on affordable jeans, while the second video throws in expensive brands as well to see how they compare.
Interestingly, the dickies ProjectFarm tested seemed to do quite well regarding crotch tearing, and did okay on the abrasion test. If your pants material is failing due to thinning out from abrasion, I would guess that the ones that did well on both the abrasion test and crotch tear test would be your best bet.
I’m skipping through the project farm “affordable” video and found the summary table:
I think that “1” says they did **not **do well on crotch tearing. They stand up remarkably well for other abrasion - I’ve been rebuilding a foundation and spending a lot of time crawling around under an old shed - the knees still look like new!
Just FYI, not all Dickies are created equally. They sell lower quality ones at places like Walmart. The material is thinner and the stitching uses thinner thread and a different stitch pattern.
I still wear some Dickies I bought 25 years ago.
Well - I’m surprised. Dickies Canada customer care team actually replied and confirmed that “Genuine Dickies” (the brand sold at Walmart) is not genuine Dickies - it’s a different brand and is lower quality.
I’m tempted to boycott them now for allowing their brand to be abused like that, but I said in my email to them that I’d try real Dickies if they confirmed there is a difference - so I will.
