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 The Best Jeans for Men, Period.

By Gerald Ortiz

Since their invention, jeans have helped mold some of the coolest guys in history, from James Dean to Kendrick Lamar. Today, the best jeans for men follow in that great lineage and can even fold a plebe like you into the annals of style history, as they’ve done for countless fashion greats.

A century and a half later, blue jeans have become America’s single most influential contribution to the global fashion canon, transforming the way we dress in the process. That’s no exaggeration: Over the decades, jeans went from humble proletariat garb to splashy designer fare, with plenty of historic pit stops at each leg of the journey. In the time since Strauss and Davis introduced their signature product, jeans have outfitted everyone from plebes to presidents, making icons out of too many of them to count. (Brando and Dean come to mind pretty fast.)

Jeans have been barred from hotels, smuggled into countries, and, above all else, remixed and riffed on by every generation discovering them anew—which, in this day and age, makes finding the right pair for you all the more difficult. That’s where we come in, helping you to find the best pair of jeans you’ll ever wear.

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