Thanks for all the ideas! :-)
I think off-brand jeans are good too
Senusret I; there's some really decent denimwear out there. I also like the idea of having some upper-echelon branded items for occasions.
I saw Tommy Jeans and Abercrombie & Fitch suggested above by
sigtau305, I was worried these were less current and kinda 2003? Is this wrong? I haven't heard of Sean John and Phat farm what're these like?
Chip and Pepper , Paper Denim and Cloth (no longer popular?), Se7en (no longer popular?), Triple Five Soul, Drunknmunky, Zoo York are all other names I hear kicked around but I don't know much about them.

I had a look at Hollister's webpage they had some really nice stuff there, thank you
Wine&SilverBlue!
Old threads I saw had someone named
Trudey or something that seemed to know about mens jeans. Is he/she still around?
Also, how do the brands work out in terms of cost - which're lower-priced, midrange or expensive?