and right by a's post re talking about tv as gauche (above), this post on jeans
Metachat thread - 14 comments : The jeans I used to pay $9.99 for at stores like Bargain City, Savings Bazaar, and TruVal now sell for $150.00. posted by iconomy
- [incredulously] For Wrangler's?
- Almost everything else had already been cool, so it was a process of elimination.

I like this, since I sometimes wonder about pants splitting
-Sad to say, my favorite jeans (from the resale shop, but of course!) have reached the point of no return: the pocket-to-thigh region is velvety soft and worn dangerously thin... which means they're one deep squat away from splitting open. No, more frighteningly, they're an unknown number of squats away from splitting. They could last a month, or they could split today. posted by Elsa

also these sound good + int links -
-Levi's Type 1 Tough Boot dark, dark indigo, super comfy stretch denim, awesome boot cut with a really good flare, low rise with a dip in front, and featured really aggressively obvious yellow stitching. perfect blend of retro/Western with wearability.
Turns out they no longer make them, at least not for women; they were part of a line they experimented with in 2003, and the style has been discontinued. Due to lack of popularity. Philistines!
In this extremely interesting Levi's product standards and marketing-position document [PDF] (page 9), they described the jeans as "boldly celebrating the essence of Levi's jeans through amplification of the Levi's jeans icons including the arcuate, tabs, buttons, rivets, and stitching."
They definitely succeeded. Though I am a long way from their target 'gals' customer (pG 16) of 22-year-olds, the rest of their marketing claptrap sort of does apply and appeal to me. Perhaps their only mistake was in trying to sell these jeans to a youth market rather than to doddering old thirtysomething ladies like me.
But as this Flickr page suggests, I am not alone in my passion for the pants. [Any other Levi's Type 1 lovers out there?]
I haven't felt the joy of having a really basic, classic, dark, crispy, stiff pair of honest-to-god Levi's since grade school.
Oh, the horrible years of the acid wash, the whiskers, the crinkle, the fade, the taper, the 'relaxed' fit (ugh!) the wide leg - may they never return.
posted by Miko