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Are Levi’s From Amazon Different From Levi’s From Levi’s?
Erin Schwartz, on nymag.com:
I acquired two pairs each of our most-recommended jeans (women’s Wedgies and Ribcages and the classic men’s 501s) — one pair ordered from Amazon, one pair sent by Levi’s for each style. I was careful to match up the same washes to prevent differences in distressing or fabric treatment from skewing the results. Still, I was skeptical. It didn’t make sense: Why would Levi’s maintain separate supply chains for different retailers? I pulled the jeans out of their plastic packaging expecting them to be indistinguishable. They were not.
Exactly this happened to me a few years back. I bought the same pair1 I do every couple of years from both Amazon and Levi’s , and they felt completely different. At the time I thought it was because Amazon’s were knock-off’s, but the article point’s this out:
The tests confirmed a lot of variability between two pairs of the same jeans — you could buy the same style from Amazon and Levi’s and feel a difference. But it didn’t add up to gaps in quality; there was no indication that the Levi’s from Amazon were worse.
Basically Levi’s huge global supply chain, with dozens of mills and factories across multiple countries, results in variations between the same jeans model.
Levi’s 513™ Slim Straight Men’s Jeans 33x32, if you must know.↩︎