It’s very difficult for me to find jeans that fit (29 inch waist, 35 inch leg) and a google search led me to makeyourownjeans.com. I’m also generally wary of buying anything online without checking out the vendor first. Although there is a fair amount of positive feedback there were also several negative reviews so I felt that I should tread carefully. At the end of the day, I figured that I could put the $50 down to an experience learnt if they didn’t come through (yeah, yeah, I know that shouldn’t be the Brokelyn way).

Ordering is a little more complicated than most website because you have to input specific measurements, as well as any comments that you want to add. It’s well worth taking the time to read the instructions thoroughly and do this properly.

I have to say that my jeans arrived promptly, to the right specification, and fit perfectly. I don’t know that I would be able to say the same of their “cloning” service that I think that is, quite frankly, a ridiculous way to order clothes: firstly, there are countless varieties of denim – no one company in the world will have every permutation. Beyond that, even to the same specification you will get batch variations because of subtle differences in the cotton or the dye. Your own jeans will have been broken-in in a specific way – there’s no guarantee that even a pair from the same manufacturing batch will break in the same way. Do yourself a favour and order a completely fresh and custom pair of jeans that have the chance to become your future favourite pair of jeans.

Do I know what I’m talking about? Well I hold a degree in Clothing Engineering and Management from one of the foremost textiles institutes in the world. I have also worked in the textiles division of SGS, the world’s largest third-party inspection agency, inspecting clothing to military specification. So yes, I think I do.

MYOJ DO manufacture to a high quality and specification. The only significant difference between these and store-bought jeans is marketing hype and retail mark-ups. You may have an ethical issue with buying products with overseas labour content but that would be true of most manufacturers these days. If MYOJ had NY retail space with sales assistants doing the measuring for you, you would pay 4x the price for the same product.

Finally, I have to say that Elaine’s story smells a little fishy. You ordered six pairs of jeans and they got three of them wrong? After they get ONE of them wrong without a satisfactory resolution to your complaint, why did you continue to order from them? Not only that but you then send a pair of “perfect-fitting jeans to clone”. Since you want exactly the same thing then you must really like these jeans, no? So after them screwing up 50% of your orders in the past, you still trust a pair of jeans that you really like to these guys? I think you’re either lying or you’re rather stupid. Either way, I’m not putting much stock in your opinion, especially when my own experience is so different.