Whether you love them or hate them, wide-leg jeans are back in style this spring. There is a trick to wearing them, however. Some women tend to shy away from this particular cut because they believe the wide leg makes them look heavy. But they can actually make you look rather slim if you wear them the right way.
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The annual “Jeans for Justice” fundraiser is taking place Tuesday, January 25, 2011. It’s a global campaign with local ties. Residents can take part by wearing jeans and donating a dollar to Rape Response, a local rape crisis center.
A New Yorker named Kate (Catherine Keener) refuses to spend $200 on jeans for her 15-year-old daughter. Not, she says, “when there are 45 homeless people living on our street.” Kate will, however, buy modern mid-century furniture from the relatives of the recently deceased, mark the pieces up and sell them in the vintage store she and her husband, Alex (Oliver Platt), operate.
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Slice-of-life film shares keen observations
Shari Raymond remembers watching her father, Charles C. Bowlin, pile dozens of sweatshirts and jeans on a store checkout counter.
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Obituary: Charles C. Bowlin / Contractor and charismatic Christian leader
American Eagle Outfitters Inc. sold plenty of jeans , shorts, T-shirts and woven shirts to drive sales in established stores up 15 percent in March, making for a more festive spring break than last year, when the South Side teen retailer saw that sales number drop 16 percent
Shortly after wiping a pair of moist palms on his jeans, Robert Morris freshman guard Velton Jones turned around in his chair. “Am I the only nervous one here?”
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Robert Morris: Colonials ecstatic with a 15 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
ONE thing you may not have known about Elvis Presley and his peculiar fashion choices is that he never liked wearing jeans. Another is that, evidently, he considered a gun to be an accessory.
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THE big issues and tough questions are what concern us here in Style Land. Let other people fret about the recession, health care and the future of Conan O’Brien’s pompadour. What troubles us is how the male consumer’s simplest decision somehow became the most difficult and fraught. Why, that is, are blue jeans, that most blameless and universal item of apparel, the one thing men always get wrong?
More here: Read My Hips: These Are Jeans That Fit (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
American Eagle Outfitters reported its new denim collection is doing well, but the South Side teen retailer’s second-quarter results still significantly trailed the same period last year.
More here: AEO jeans hot, but quarterly earnings still down (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
American Eagle Outfitters blamed later school starts and a shift of tax-free holidays in some markets for contributing to the slide in sales last month but the South Side retailer said teens are responding well to its new jeans assortments for the back-to-school season.
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American Eagle reports slip in sales (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)