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Why Those Jeans Cost $300

Matt Cantor — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:18:05 CDT

Ever wondered how a pair of jeans, even great-looking ones, could possibly cost $300 or more? The Wall Street Journal has the answer—and in large part, it’s because the fancy pants were made in America, writes Christina Binkley. If a pair of $300 True Religion jeans had been made...

Denim's Back, But Denim-on-Denim Is Pushing It

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:11:00 CST

Thanks in part to the recession, denim is all the rage—but the growing tendency to layer denim on denim (on, sometimes, even more denim) might be too much. “It can look silly, too contrived,” a video producer tells the Wall Street Journal . Nonetheless, the look is everywhere, from Jessica...

Say Goodbye to $600 Jeans

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:53:52 CDT

If you couldn't afford a pair of "premium jeans" last year, maybe you can now. Though the basic components of jeans haven't changed in decades, prices skyrocketed early in the decade—but thanks to the recession, designer denim that might have gone for more than $300 two years ago is...

New CK Jeans Give You the Back—or Front —You Want

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:06:49 CDT

Good news for the flat-bottomed: Calvin Klein’s Body jeans do for your lower half what a push-up bra does for your upper half, the New York Post reports—and both men and women can get a lift from the new line. The ladies get a rounder, more flattering look for...

New Gap Jeans Compete With Designer Denim

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:43:42 CDT

Gap is taking on the reigning kings of designer denim with its new jeans revamp in an effort “to reinvent Gap as a place of authority on denim,” the company's president says. Gone are the old designs—all of them. In their place are six new styles that include features...

Why Jeans Are Evil

Kevin Spak — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:47:26 CDT

Across America, men, women, and children are wearing the same pants: jeans. Not only a sartorial crime, the trend is an “obnoxious misuse of freedom,” rails George Will of the Washington Post. Levi Strauss set out to make tough pants for 49ers who spent all day in the mud, and...