In short…well, no. Have I bought them…yes. I know a guy (a doctor) that is rumored to have $10K in designer jeans in his closet. I think he has a problem, myself. 😉
Here is a post I wrote for my other blog relating my designer jeans buying experience…
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Well, you know how us women are. We lose a little weight and we get all giddy and need to buy some new clothes to celebrate. I honestly didn’t buy much in the last few years, so I think I get a pass. That’s what I’m tellin’ myself anyways! BwaaHahahahahaha!
I forayed into The Buckle where they have long pants, which is a prerequisite for me. It is from all those years of riding horses, and having your jeans ride up over your boots if they were too short. The store had lots of expensive jeans, and not so many sales. Apparently they don’t make long jeans for a reasonable price.
The young, perky salesgirl was ever so helpful in picking out some jeans for me. Since her jeans looked a size too small, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that what she was picking for me were a bit small. Last time I went to buy jeans, I think it was with this same gal. I had given her what I thought was my size. Notsomuch. Now they did actually fit for the most part. Huzzah!
It’s funny when you are of a “mature” age, and the young store clerks pick things out to just help ya out a bit. She produced for me several pairs of jeans with zippers about 2 inches long that I could barely squeeze into and they certainly didn’t do me any favors. Do I look like I’m 16?? I’ve had CHILDREN. I’m thinking something with a little higher crotch will have to do. Of course, that is nearly impossible to find these days.
Also?? Can I just say how annoying it is to get into a changing room with NO MIRROR? Seriously it irritates the hell out of me. I realize they want you to come out so they can lie to you and say you look like Angelina Jolie in that and here’s five more things that would go fabulously with it. It just makes me want to quick try on things and get the heck out of that store.
Anyways, so I tried on the jeans, found some that fit, looked decent and were fabulously overpriced. I bent down to see just how much of a butt crack was going to show and isn’t that how you decide on what jeans to buy? What?? Have you seen how many butt cracks are out in public these days?
I settled on two that I loved, swallowed hard and whipped out the old credit card. You can always take them back, right?? I brought them home to see how they really looked since I couldn’t decide on just one but really didn’t want to buy both. I also made sure I could return one since stores are getting all wacko about their return policies these days.
You can return this article (but only within the next ten minutes after buying it otherwise we will give you store credit that you can’t use on sale items or anything remotely discounted and can only use it during the full moon) with a receipt.
I settled for these. Just a little bling to make the day shiny, right? The little girl agreed with me that the sparkle was pretty cool. They weren’t cheap, but not the most expensive in the store. What is up with the price of jeans?? There were hardly any sales in the store either. Obviously we need to produce more jeans to get us out of this economic slump.
