RED BLUFF – The sun is barely up when 82-year-old Tommy Thomas, dressed in a cotton shirt and jeans with suspenders, wades into a stand of corn twice as tall as he is.
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DEAR SHOPPING: I’ve been looking for the best pair of jeans I ever wore. The High Sierra boot-cut jeans are unbelievable and I looked everywhere. The major stores didn’t have the cut and quality of this brand. Can you help me find a source for these jeans or something close?
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Shopping for Answers: Hankerin’ for boot-cut blue jeans (The Sacramento Bee)
DEAR SHOPPING: For a number of years I have worn Cascade Blues jeans, which I puchased at Mervyns. I can no longer find them. Any ideas?
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Shopping for Answers: Mervyns’ jeans lost to history (The Sacramento Bee)
Here are some upcoming events worth noting: • Trunk show: Brown House clothing store in Sacramento (2567 Fair Oaks Blvd.) is celebrating 32 years of offering a variety of women’s apparel to local consumers. Owner Doris Pittell says October will be a busy month as she presents the Robert Krugman collection of jackets and blouses, which pair nicely with jeans, black pants or evening trousers …
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DEAR SHOPPING: A few years ago, I found jeans that fit me perfectly – Liz Claiborne Classic Fit petite sizes 2 or 4. Macy’s doesn’t carry them, and now Gottschalks is gone.
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Shopping for Answers: Try outlet store for Liz’s jeans (The Sacramento Bee)
Jeans, T-shirts and flip-flops: most students graduate from college with little else in their closets. But the faded and frayed won’t do out in the professional world, say career experts.
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Elk Grove Police are investigating a bank robbery at Downey Savings on 5000 Laguna Blvd that took place late Friday afternoon, Elk Grove Police Department officials said. At 4:49 p.m., a white man between the ages of 40 and 50 walked into the bank and handed the teller a note, police officials said. He was wearing a dark colored baseball cap, a green and white flannel jacket and jeans, …
On Friday night, Sacramento’s Tesla dug more than 25 years into the past to play a two-hour set for a sold-out crowd at Memorial Auditorium. “Man, you guys are giving me goose bumps – we’ve got a lot great memories,” singer Jeff Keith marveled as he surveyed the crowd, which, with its mix of leopard prints and skinny jeans, old Harley-Davidson T-shirts and slick Ed Hardy wear, easily …
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Actor Chace Crawford (”Gossip Girl”) donates jeans at an Aeropostale store in New York. Editor’s note: Each Friday in Living Here/Style, we will bring you the best of 21Q, The Bee’s entertainment blog, where you’ll always find fresh, fascinating news and information. Visit www.sacbee.com/21q . Captain Sacto’s estate sale Hummel figurines and old violins are among the many …
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Estate sale to feature collection of Capt. Sacto (The Sacramento Bee)
Rebeka Willett, at center in 1997, duplicates her dance teacher’s movements as parents Clarence and Tammy watch. Now 18, Willett is a junior college student. At 8 a.m. on a recent Wednesday you might have spotted Rebeka Willett on the Modesto Junior College campus. She was the 18-year-old in a Raiders T-shirt and jeans, giggling along with her classmates as she practiced arabesques in a …
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Disabled pair defied naysayers to create own kind of family (The Sacramento Bee)