Originally Posted by
Austinite
My mother back in the early 90s worked as a seamstress at a jeans factory. They made Levis for Wal-Mart and Levis for department stores. She said the denim for the Wal-Mart jeans was noticeably thinner.
No doubt, but this is a different issue. It's a lesser product made with lesser goods, not the same goods of two different quality grades.