sorefingers,

I find a lot of "old fashioned" and "tried-and-true" products (like good-fitting "farmer jeans" you describe) at the Vermont Country Store. I shopped from their catalog for years, but in a search just now I'm not surprised to find them online. Take a look at this place. It may surprise you. My catalog stopped coming ages ago (it probably still goes to my ex instead) but as I think about it, there were always great ideas in those pages, and a lot of things you thought they weren't making any more.

SRS