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Jeans. Humble work pants that were hard wearing yet comfortable. When I was about ten, that’s exactly what my favourite jeans were, to me at least.

These days, being all grown up and all, I head to the shops in search of a pair of jeans and very quickly, any quaint notion of what I thought jeans were, is dispelled in an instant. Today, jeans have gone decidedly upmarket.

Yes, the humble jeans are still the staple garment of choice for anyone involved in labour or leisure, but somewhere during the last ten to fifteen years or so, the fashion world has taken our favourite garments and has given them a makeover. I never thought I’d see the day that Giorgio Armani or Hugo Boss would include among their anticipated collections, their own flavour of jeans.

So just what have these big names in fashion brought to the party? well for one thing they’ve brought us a new distinction in the fashion vocabulary: Fashion Jeans.

That’s not the only thing they’ve given us. Along with the new terminology, we now have a whole new range of prices to consider.

Now call me old fashioned, but I find it hard to justify forking out the kind of money that I’m more used to spending on a suit, on a single pair of fashion jeans. There are times when, try as I might, I just can’t for the life of me, see anything special about some leading designers jeans that could possibly justify the eye popping price tags. Is it the cut? Is it the material? (I thought they were all 100% cotton!).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure fashion jeans are very well made and I’m sure they’re up to the job, after all, no designer worth their salt would dare put their name to any garment that was below par. They do have their empires to consider. All I’m saying is that I would find it very hard to justify that kind of outlay.

Fortunately for the fashion industry, it doesn’t rely on my purchases to sustain itself. It relies on the ever changing trends of the fashion buying global population who seemingly have no qualms handing over the asking price for the latest fashion jeans or the latest fashions full stop.

If it’s jeans your after, then it’s only right that you’ll buy what you like. Whether that’s regular jeans (like mine) or fashion jeans, but more to the point, you’ll buy them where you like. The only tip I’d like to pass on is the place to buy them. In short it’s the Internet. Branded, unbranded, basic or high fashion, you just won’t find them cheaper or more plentiful that online.

The humble jeans, who’d have thought.

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Author: Sam Benton
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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