Those are ugly. The price tag is pretty irrelevant though. If it's something you're into $700 isn't that crazy, even if there are much cheaper functional alternatives available. People spend more than that on plenty of other frivolous things. Cars, Lego, wine, musical instruments, bicycles, etc.
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A pair of double-waisted jeans costs $695
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CambriaRising
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Cars are apparently frivolous now.
Widdle Puppy
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sixteen-bit
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Depends on where you live, really.
StrangeRoboMemory
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now i have two plates of avocado toast but my legs are cold because i cant afford pants
sixteen-bit
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Moms are tough.
Captain Tuttle
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Definately, isn't there a Denim OT?
Brock Reiher
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Anime is so close to being real
Fenderputty
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She can't stop raving
Queen Vulpix
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I would never wear something like that bleh. Though I might spend $695 on a pair of jeans in a style I do like if it actually gave me usable pockets...
Fenderputty
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You didn't need to spend $700 to be daddy mac cool. The good ole days
I was sitting on my couch staring at this on my laptop and felt like I was going to fall over after 5 seconds or so.
what is this doing to my brain
Earthbound64
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Darn, that's 3 pairs of buttcheeks, plus some left over.
nocturnalis
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We had a thread this week about a personal willing to spend $350 on something you put money in, so yes I do.
A car as a whole is not a frivolous thing, but many car-related things are
Fenderputty
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This is up there with audiophile cables and shit for wastes of money.
MadJackChurchill
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Saw a thread for buying a $350 wallet so yes.
EDIT: beaten but glad someone else felt the same way.
exmachina64
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Everyone lives in large, walkable cities with public transportation.
Scalpel Knight
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You could spread at least six pairs of butt cheeks for that price.
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Evil John Locke
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Okay someone has to clue me in on this spread butt cheeks thing
loaf of bread
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I have a few pairs of Saint Laurent jeans that retail for around 700. Granted I bought them for a lot less than that, but yeah, they are a "$700 pair of jeans"
Puck Beaverton
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GAF would find them ugly. You guys have no sense of fashion.
Same people who buys $1000+ phones to teXt and shit.
bitbydeath
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Looks like someone wedgied her.
lol or course, just the other day one dude was looking for $400 wallet suggestion.
SapientWolf
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It's relevant because it's much harder to justify the purchase when they're absurdly priced compared to similar products. It's not like they're 10 times better than regular jeans.
Evil John Locke
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Bahaha okay thank you
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
They aren't claiming to be. It's not like rich rubes are buying these imagining that each additional dollar improves the quality of the cotton used in the jeans or whatever. The point of diminishing returns in denim is around $200-300; at that point you're getting excellent cotton, excellent indigo, quality craftsmanship made in the west by people being paid a fair wage, etc. and everyone paying big bucks for denim knows this. What you're getting at this point is the brand and the style. And you should also realize that for the median full-price pruchaser of these jeans, $700 and $70 might as well be the same number. There exists a level of wealth, or of trust fund, where you have an extremely high weekly allowance to live off of and other than going beyond that you aren't even dipping into your principal. It's literally not worth their time to sweat the difference between $70 and $700.
The same is true of any clothing item -- there's a quality difference between $9 Wal-Mart shoes and, like, Allen Edmonds. There's not a huge difference between a $300 shoe and a $3000 shoe. But the people who buy $3000 shoes know this and they don't care, because to them either there's a value in repping the brand or because to them those two numbers might as well be the same thing. There's a difference between a $20 watch and a $500 watch, there's not a huge difference between a $3000 watch and a $10000 watch in terms of it being a watch. That's OK too.
Now, separately, the question is how do we respond to these jeans. It's obvious that overalls, rompers, and high waisted jeans are popular and part of the boho vibe over the last few years. That's clearly the spirit in which these exist. I don't think they're especially nice looking, the double waist is kinda dumb and it's hard for me to imagine it would provide a flattering silhouette to the vast majority of customers. I'd also argue that the mid-wash denim is more likely to feel Raggedy Ann than Audrey Hepburn. Most of the women wearing high-waisted denim overalls go black rather than blue. In the model in the OP the top waist is about where a high waisted jean would sit and the bottom waist accentuates her pelvis which would seem to be an error. The cuffs also seem too large relative to her overall proportions and I'm surprised that there's no taper in the legs. I also think the cuff, back panel, and front panel all clash with the shoe she's chosen. So it's a pass for me.
Finally, I think the main question here is why people fall for local news stories that basically boil to pointing at something weird and then saying "Gosh that sure is weird!!!" The article claims this is a trend. It is not. It's a small lot from a single designer, and it's certainly not possible that the jeans are popular in Philadelphia so this is basically people looking for something to get angry about. There's not even any evidence anyone has actually bought these--the assertion that the pre-orders sold out could be a lie, or it could reflect an extremely small run size.
I went through a phase where I was buying jeans costing anywhere from $70 to around $300 or more. They were nice enough and I still wear them from time to time, but my most worn jeans today are $15 ones from Costco. Have about 3 pairs of them and they are more comfortable and durable than any of the expensive brands I used to throw money at it. Clothes is bullshit.
Alebrije
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Evil John Locke
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That's quality
valkillmore
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sleverfunk
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this hurts my eyes and brain wtf