UNWORN 20 YEARS Vintage Early/Mid-2000s Kirkland jeans from Costco
Local Pickup LA Los Feliz
Notes on this particular listing if any:
See the photos.
If the title has a number 1-7, it matches the pair # on the paper tag
in the photos to help me tell them apart, because they are so similar.
This doesn't mean, for example, that if it says "6" that the buyer is
getting 6 pairs of jeans, the "6" is just the pair number to identify
them.
I got my Costco card in 1994, but I don't think I bought their jeans
until 2000 or 2002.
I've had many dozens of Costco jeans I've shredded working, but I'm
listing 5 pairs that were lost in time like a time capsule in some
blocked wardrobe drawers, some are worn here and there, but none are
worn out or busted out across the seat (usually right side), as is the
case with every pair I wear enough (usually takes 6 months wearing it
as my only pair of jeans). I lost a lot of weight in 2006 and bought
new jeans, leaving these behind and I forgot I had them.
Flash sale of jeans here. I didn't know I had these. Well, I guess I
knew, but they were all in build-in wardrobe drawers in the closet area
packed in with machines for almost 30 years, and not even open-able for
the last 20 years. After having to move a lot of equipment/supplies out
of here, I was SHOCKED at the jeans I had in there, and how clean they
were. These aren't dingy, yellow, oily, or anything like that. As I
start this, there are 2 pairs of early 1990s Levi's and 5 pairs of
early-to-mid 2000s Kirkland jeans from Costco.
I'm immaculate with my clothing, I don't even like it to sit long dirty
in a seldom-used hamper, I like to wash it and put it away, often in
one of the THOUSANDS of high quality zip bags that I have (I buy them
factory direct), then lay over it as I close it to force the air out.
These leaves them smelling very fresh.
These are all beautifully fresh smelling, laundered and bagged for
20-30 years.
The Levi jeans:
BTW, I went to junior high school 3 years in San Francisco 1980-1983
with one of the kids from the Levi's family (actually they aren't named
Levi, or Strauss, but Haas), actually free public school he went to
then, don't know where he went to high school, maybe University, or one
of the prep schools or "French schools" (that was a thing even then).
And he wore a lot of Levi's, especially those casual V-neck style
sport/casual "jeans shirts", even though most kids at even 1/10th his
level then were wearing Izod alligator shirts (1980-1981) or Polo
(1983-on).
These Levi's were not work jeans. Only the second pair was used for
outside and driving.
There are two pairs of these as I start this, bought 1993-1994. NOT
worn even once since 1994 or 1995 (wouldn't fit anymore).
The Kirkland jeans from Costco: I can't even remember what I was
wearing late 1990s, probably mostly Levi's, which by then had
pricing/quality that varied about +/-150%, and I stopped buying them
permanently. I could get Levi's at Costco and bust the seat out of them
in 3 months or even MUCH less, and then look and see that the, ahem,
"denim", was about as thick as a chambray shirt. Those late 1990s
Levi's from club stores would split under the seat, or across the
knees, etc., so I stopped wearing them.
I honestly can't even remember when I started buying the Kirkland jeans
from Costco, but I would have bought them sooner if I'd thought of it.
And as of 2026, I don't think they've had them for at least five years.
The Kirkland jeans from Costco here would probably have been bought
from 2002-on, but NOT after late 2005 or 2006 (because after that those
drawers were blocked, and all I bought were completely worn out,
usually in six months, and usually, lulz, as the one and only pair of
jeans I wore because it fit, then I'd buy another, and alternate back
and forth with shorts as I washed them often). Every pair I bought was
good, very good, none wore out prematurely, the main problem was just
finding the right size in that mountain of jeans they used to have
(half of them sizes starting with a "4.").
These were work jeans, with most hours spent driving.
The way I wear (and wear OUT) jeans: I'm not a little kid crawling on
the sidewalk, so I haven't worn out/ripped/busted out the knees in a
pair of jeans since the 1970s. These 1990s and 2000s jeans I have here
were used for driving and work in my own warehouse, plus indoors work,
and desk/electronics work. And that's a lot of lifting, so the failure
mode on almost every pair of jeans I've had in 15+ years is busting the
seat out, or splitting it, strangely, usually the right side under the
right pocket. None of those are sold here, all thrown in the trash long
ago. I don't smoke, or eat wearing jeans. I always have a big wallet on
the right, and a razor/box cutter on the left, so that explains the
wear you might see on some of them.
NONE of these are worn out in the knees, or worn AT ALL around the
cuffs near the feet. No wear there. I wear them kind of short.
Some of these have faint small reddish brown dots on them, I think that
might be some kind of rust from my drawers, the thumbtacks holding the
shelf paper down were all rusty, and these jeans were ALL in there at
LEAST 20 years, in a drawer I couldn't even open (the drawers were
blocked by Emulators, Emulator IIs, Synergy keyboards, etc.). It's not
blood. It's, I think, rust.
These are jeans that haven't fit AT ALL (Levi's) since 1995 or haven't
fit comfortably (Kirkland jeans from Costco) since 2005-2006, these are
jeans that I will never use so I am finally getting around to taking
photos and listing them here on eBay.
Free local pickup in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles is okay if
you can work around my very busy schedule.
USA shipping only, unless you use eBay International Shipping.
If you want discounted combined shipping, for example for 2-7 pairs of
jeans, just let me know IN ADVANCE and I will set up a special listing
for you so that you will only pay the shipping once. This is if you
tell me IN ADVANCE, not if you ask for it later because any shipping
money paid has already been docked 15.56% by eBay managed payments (it
is 14.91% for USA and 15.56% for outside USA, even Canada, and if you
think that's wrong, it's because you don't know, if you think it's the
"13.6%" claimed, they forget to mention that it's also charged on the
sales tax, which for example just in the next city here of Burbank,
it's 10.25%, so 13.6% of 10.25% is a 1.31% stealth surcharge ON THE
WHOLE THING, and it's even higher for European, etc. orders with all
the VAT, customs clearance, etc., and this doesn't even count those
eBay fees being charged on all shipping/handing since 2011) and that
money is not coming back. Yes, eBay takes the same percentage of the
stated shipping charge as they do on the item since 2011. So let me
know in advance and I can set it up so that you can save a lot of money
by buying and shipping the items together.
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