It was time to go shopping for jeans.
I finally got some financial breathing room, after a grueling January/February paying for outrageous Boston apartment fees for my next lease. I headed over to a mall in Natick one sunny day, in search of the closest JCPenney's. I had always bought my jeans from their low-cost Arizona brand. And by low-cost, I mean it. Their bootcut jeans cost $12-$15. I'm not sure why there's price variation on pants that are exactly the same, but different colors. I don't even think the price difference is due to the color difference. In any case, the previous set of Arizona jeans I bought lasted through all kinds of damage. They started out kind of rough and thick, but after 3 years they were soft and warm to wear. They still didn't thin out though, through wear and tear. I liked that they felt thick and protective when I put them on, so I felt like I should replace both of them with the same "model". Which I did, for $12 and $15. Sweet.
Since I was spending so little on those two jeans, I decided to try on some more expensive jeans. Expensive, meaning Levi's, which aren't that expensive compared to some other designer stores, like Express. The first thing I noticed was that the Levi's bootcut jeans were a lot tighter on me. I didn't like it at first, but then I saw in the mirror that the jeans fit me a lot better. It was like the jeans were cut for my legs, and not in an emo-punk-tight-as-leather-jeans way. I never realized that jeans could fit like this. I'm glad that I tried on the Levi's, and they're now sitting on my chair, to be worn tomorrow. $35, which isn't too bad.
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