Previously you got when you stated size Wxx / Lxx type and number, always the same cut and could be sure that the pants fit. This time is over! Presumably Levis has a quality problem, which is why the company is probably not going as good as before. If I already pay a little more, I want to have good quality and not permanently markedly different pattern and size deviations.
I have a 751 stonewashed blue W38 / L34 bought (751.0216, Made in Bangladesh) who still went well even the beginning of 2012. She was no longer so well colored (all Etiketen were blue and she also colored off more than the former), but at least it fit well. Currently I bought again the same pants, but surprise, surprise, it was 2 cm longer and the leg circumference was 4 cm more at the bottom! No I have not measured up to me, but I have the 2 pants (bought earlier and bought currently, both unworn) superposed and measured. There is therefore an objective measurement! The current pants (Made in Pakistan, so other manufacture, as the first pants) not only has a significantly differing pattern and a length variation, but the rivets and buttons are made of thinner metal and can be seen poorer quality. Why the bartacks at the back pockets now are blue and not orange, I do not know. Probably hereby cheaper production was marked? The double-stitching on the inside leg is no longer visible from the outside. Man kan just realize that inside 2 seams running side by side. Otherwise fabric and stitching quality seem but probably still OK to be (hence 2 stars, instead of a).
I've ordered a 3rd pants. This time W38 / L32, therefore shorter number. I thought if the pants now turn out all longer, I'll just take one with the next shorter length (L32). But this also has another leg circumference 4cm below as the first pants and is 3.5cm shorter than the first (or 5.5 cm shorter than the second).
So an L34 is around 2cm longer than before and a L32 is about 3.5cm shorter than an earlier L34. In addition, the pants with 4cm other leg circumference by almost go down as "flares". For me unacceptable. I'm going to buy in the near future no longer Levis pants. Trousers 3 goes as pants 2 back to Amazon.
But what puzzled: The same trousers in black (751.0226) sizes a bit better. It is similar to the previous pants so that I can find the black version as just acceptable.
Should anyone of Levis read: Please make again more on your pattern and your quality. This Levis which is again what Levis times was.
I will test in half a year again and if not better by then, I will no longer buy Levis - a pity!