Jeans

To be honest I've had no problems with American Apparel on the bike at all and I do most of my cycling in them... Cheap enough, comfy and skinny, they were fine in the thigh even at my biggest though many pints of the black stuff means the waist is a little less accomodating than it previously may have been, need some bigger ones now :(

Going to have to argue the point on this one. I've owned a few pairs of American Apparel jeans, and all of them have been awful. The first pair were bought in New York a few years back, and were just awful. The quality was low, the cut was bizarre (they almost flared at the bottom!) and the colours bled for their entire life.
The second pair were bought in England (although I'm presuming they were made in the same place, LA), but were even worse. Because they only went by waist size, the legs were ridiculously too long. Now I've got a 32" inside leg which isn't massive, but I shouldn't be buying 26" waist jeans and having 2 or 3 turn ups at the bottom! Also, all the originally bad features remained. Don't know why I bothered buying them now.

And thats another thing, the fucking price! I accept paying over the odds for nice stuff, I tend to spend lots of money on nice clothes, but £60ish quid for poor quality jeans in a store that is supposed to be ethical staples for everyone (which is, frankly, at odds with their marketing) doesn't make much sense to me. The came in for some flak in LA after a price hike which effectively prevented their workers buying the in store.

As a proviso, thats all just my opinion and obviously the problems that I've had with my body type ect. They could fit others fine for all I know, but for me and my friends, they're ill-fitting expensive jeans for people buying into the marketing hype.

You want some bad ass denim? Acne Jeans. Worth every fucking penny, they're comfortable, a really good quality, keep their colour and fit after loads of washes, and cope admirably with the perils of a clumsy person (falling off stuff, falling down stuff, falling over stuff).