I got mine from a Carhartt shop in Covent Garden about 10 years ago. Oceansports sell Carhartt though I think. A lot of their stuff these days is more fashion than workwear. Mrs Cottager (before she achieved that status) got me some of the workwear on a trip to NY in the late 90s. Both me and my...
Blue Jeans are cool, daddio. Actually, they were almost black pristine Levis engineered jeans bought in the Cats Protection League charidy shop.
I'm currently sporting some Carharrt chinos that are insanely comfortable.
By chance, I wore blue jeans to Fulham yesterday for the first time in decades. Perhaps I'll have to try it more often. I prefer Dickies or similar workwear type canvassy strides or cords (not red - that would be too much of a Fulham Rupert cliche) and shorts April to September inclusive.