You Go Girl

From that liberal, commie rag the New York Times*:

COLLETTE LEONARD would probably be the first to tell you that the premium denim thing is a little out of hand. She is aware of how loopy it is to lose one's senses in the quest for a neatly packaged posterior. She knows there is something fundamentally silly in indulging an obsession with foraging obsessively for the best, newest, most underground pair of five-pocket cotton trousers, of hoping to unearth the holy grail, jeans made by a label never yet photographed on Jennifer Aniston.

"It's just a pair of jeans, I realize that," said Ms. Leonard, who works for a liquor distributor in Manhattan. "But I wear two pairs every day, and I'd much rather go out and find something unique that you're not going to see on every girl in New York."

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"I don't balk at $500 for a pair of shoes," explained Ms. Leonard, who was shopping last month at Atrium, a boutique on Lower Broadway that is to premium denim what Barney Greengrass is to lox. "Why should I balk at that price for jeans that are special. "



It is absurd that this woman should have to defend herself for buying a pricey pair of jeans. After all, isn't that what we're fighting for in in Iraq.

We think if Mel Gibson were here he'd yell "Freedom!"

*we are not providing a link because you need a password for the NYT and then a week later you can't even access the shit without paying, so screw them and their liberal, commie pricing scheme. USA! USA!