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He'll never mention the waistband digging in or how those jeans look from behind. You already did.
You noticed how they look from behind. He never will.
He sees the front in the mirror for four seconds every morning and that's the entire review process. You're the one standing behind him at the airport, at his brother's wedding, in every photo where he's walking away.
You know those jeans are doing him no favors back there. He's never once had that information.
You know exactly how old those jeans are.
He has no idea.
You could date them within a year. He'd guess "a while ago" and move on. To him they're just the ones that are there, so they stay in rotation indefinitely, getting older in a way that's obvious to everyone except the man wearing them.
"Buying him anything often feels pointless. The nice shirt only comes out twice a year, and the good sweater is always saved for a special occasion. Whatever you get him has to be comfier than what he already prefers, or it just ends up in the pile of things he appreciates but never uses."
He is never going to fix this himself
He isn't being stubborn. Buying pants ranks somewhere below every other errand he has, and the current ones technically still work, so it never becomes urgent. Two years from now he'll be wearing the same pair.
The only version of this where anything changes
is the one where you handle it.