Jeezus, those are some hideous jeans. I actually gasped when I opened that website. But then, I rarely pay more than $30 for a pair of jeans (usually Lucky’s from TJMaxx), which tend to last me about 4-6 years, so what do I know?
Heh - those are quite the look!!
FWIW, I tend to go for something a bit more like this:
http://www.7forallmankind.com/DOJO_IN_NEW_YORK_DARK/pd/c/5/np/5/p/3541.html
Ooo -ooo - these are my exact current pair of jeans, actually: http://www.7forallmankind.com/store/productdetails.aspx?productid=1096&cs=1
I HAD to by them - they have my name on them and everything!
Those do look nice, they’re a style I’d go for, but without actually trying them on I’m not able to see why such a price increase is worth it. The best jeans I’ve found have been from DKNY, around the $40-50 range. Hereis the current pair I own. I also like Abercrombie, though I only buy from then when they have sales. This is another pair I have, that I got for $30 marked down from $80.
That’s amazing to me, because I’ve tried both those styles, and they’re cut *wildly *differently. I find that DKNY are total mom jeans, way too high on the waist, pockets up too high on the ass, zipper 37 miles long (on me, your body is doubtless totally different) and Abercrombie are cut way too junior, I couldn’t fit my entire ass into a pair of A&F without the waist being so big I could pull them up zipped and buttoned (see previous disclaimer).
Yah, the DKNY pair seem to be doing a weird crotch thing even on the model, which I hate.
I don’t shop at A&F 'cus I’m just entirely too old and would look absurd.
I can wear cheap clothes and look good as I have a really good body. So in that sense, if you’re body has imperfections better clothes can hide this.
It’s less true today as fashion is worn baggy, at least for men.
Let’s face it you can put a gunny sack on Tyra Banks and she’s gonna look good. I have had 501 jeans last five years.
To be honest, I don’t think anything makes the jeans mentioned in the OP worth that much money. There are other jeans, however, that at least somewhat justify the price, although it’s mostly in the eye of the beholder.
There is an entire culture of people devoted to denim. They are mostly interested in what’s called “raw” or “dry” denim; that is, denim that has not been washed or treated so that it will fade naturally around your thighs, knees, and waist. It’s part of a larger trend in retro clothing. Interestingly, most of what’s considered the highest quality denim is made by Japanese denim houses that will often make “repros”, or reproductions, of old Levis and Lees and Wranglers. They make them on the original looms, using as authentic of rivets and stitchings and patterns as possible, and people pay hundreds of dollars for these. They then wear them for months to years, letting them fade around themselves. Essentially the jeans are wearable collector items.
If you really are curious about the denim, there are boards like Superfuture and styleforum that tend to focus on these things. It’s an interesting topic that melds some Americana with fashion with a dash of obsession. I should note that it is mostly a male dominated geekery, probably in large part due a combination of small numbers of items produced, huge disparities in female body shapes, and scarcity of places outside the major cities to try them on before dropping $300+.
Don’t get me wrong - Tyra is a mega fox, but she can wear things that make her look bad, just like everyone else.
I wonder which is better at suckering people in: “premium” denim brands or La Mer moisturizing cream?
I can find jeans that fit me well almost anywhere; I’ve tried those brands on before, and I honestly cannot feel that much difference. I think what you are paying for is the feeling you get when you wear them. If people pay a premium to feel good about how they look, or how they think they look, then so be it. Everyone has something that they pay extra for that is worth it to them, but seems ridiculous to others.
Where I am living now, women my age don’t really wear jeans as often as women in the US seem to. It’s probably considered something more low key, less fashionable, and an item that one would get less mileage out of. So my view on denim is that I think it is something low maintenance, not something I pay $100+ for, have to dry clean, and expect to keep for long periods of wear. And as Markxxx suggested, some people look good in anything they wear. I like to pretend that I am one of those people.
Underline mine, and congratulations. I haven’t tried those particular brands, but from what astro and alice said, they might be the kind I need. I buy my jeans in a specific store in my home town because, while brands will vary, the owner’s ability to find me Jeans That Fit doesn’t. I’ve found myself in the situation of being in a store where out of 20 pairs of jeans, not a single one fitted properly, even though they were all supposed to be my size. The situation is even worse in the US, as many American manufacturers seem to think that the normal waist/hip ratio for women approaches 1 (I’m at 0.72).
The pair of 7-for-all-mankind jeans I got have a nice cut, stretch enough to be comfy while fitting reasonably close, and are encrusted with HUGE HANDFULS of austrian crystals. I found them for under a hundred dollars, but the crystals alone should cost more then that.
Those outfits might not be the greatest, but not one of them makes her look bad. In fact, I kind of like the last one.
Uh, yah. Considering that she usually looks like this I don’t think she’s going to be winning any hotness prizes for the outfits linked.
Not even the last, Mrs. Roper-esque, caftan one. 
She’s hot in any of those things, really. She regularly makes herself unattractive by saying stupid, self-absorbed, and insane things on television, but you’d have to work a lot harder than that to come up with clothes that make her look bad.
Those linked outfits made her look quite a lot fatter than she really is. And if an outfit makes a runway model look fat, it’s gonna make me look like Elsie the Tap-Dancing Cow. Dunno know about you, but I’m sure as shit not paying upwards of $100 for Elsie.
Yeah, but the claim was that the outfits made Tyra look bad. I think she’s hot in all of them. For all I know, you look terrible in any clothes. 
Yeppers - I always know to cross an item off my list if it makes the model wearing it look like a hippo.
Really, I think the point is that compared to what Tyra usually looks like, those outfits make her look bad. She’s not a dog in any of them, they’re just not pretty.
Anything that is mass produced isn’t top of the tree whatever they charge you for it.
The price in that case is simply marketing over gullibility.
People are all sorts of different sizes and shapes so you can’t say that product A hangs better then product B or whatever.
People with REAL money and taste buy made to measure, thats why Saville Row suits are respected throughout the world by the people who count.
Those who want to count buy “labels” .
Footballers wives are the living proof that no amount of money can buy you taste and discrimination.
Well, you can say “it hangs better ON ME, thus making it worth $XX.xx TO ME”. Which is a much more reasonable statement than “It’s not worth $XX.xx to ANYONE, and if they think it is, they’re fooling themselves.”
I’m narrow hipped with slim legs and to top it off I am very high waisted as well, so most of the designer jeans just don’t work for me. I find I have better luck getting a perfect fit in misses sizes at the stores teenagers shop at such as Stitches, the Gap or Le Chateau.
I’ve been in heaven since the skinny leg jean came back! Every teen store has them for $30 or less.
That being said, I have a pair of designer jeans at a consignment store near my place, and there is a difference in the quality - I just wish the 29 waist jeans didn’t have so much room in the hips!
If I could find these & if they have a narrower hip, I’d be in heaven!
http://www.7forallmankind.com/HIGHWAIST_GWENEVERE_IN_FISHNET_INDIGO/pd/c/4/np/4/p/4018.html
I may go to Holt’s after work on pay day & see!