The discussion above reminds me of why I stick with this hobby -- it's you.  Yes, I started out close to 20 years ago looking for a pair of jeans to replace my $39 Levi's 550s bought at Sears.  I really didn't care that they had poly stitching or were made in Malaysia.  They were just too big and wide.  So I took them to the Levi's store in San Francisco and found a wonderful seamstress (Melissa Vu) working in the LVC Dept (long gone).  She altered them and they fit perfectly -- I still have them and, truth be told, they fit better than a lot of the jeans I've bought since.  And the denim is great too, with a weight and texture that is oddly hard to find (a topic for another discussion). Anyway, I have a few hobbies and what keeps me in them is the people (i.e., not just those who make the product but those who appreciate it).  The average person could give a damn beyond, 'Do these jeans look good on me, does my butt look too big?'.  The kind of people who care about stitching and rivets are the same people who appreciate what makes a Leica lens special (new or old), or a tube amp sound sweet and liquid, etc.

WTS J101-GT, black, size M, 9/10, w/ bag and spec  $800 USD shipped worldwide from HK; PayPal F&F or +4% https://imgur.com/a/1o7pqR5