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This is why my pants were wet in the 90s
Holy wow. They just took 70's pants and turned the dial aaall the way up, didn't they?
And then they stuck a wheel in our shoe.
That's one of the main things I'm sorry I missed. Y'all can't afford houses, but at least you got wheels in your shoes.
The fuck are those prices? 2k bucks for pants?
It's because they're for a niche now. I don't remember them breaking the bank when I got them. More expensive than Levi's sure but they definitely added a zero.
They were $80-100 jeans in '90s dollars back then, so about the same price with inflation really. They were always a niche corner of the market when compared to regular jeans, they were just a popular niche for a while.
are you trying to say $80-100 in 1999 is equivalent to $2000 today?
No, but it's equivalent to the $180-280 most of the current JNCOs are actually priced at. I think the $2000 comment was exaggerating for effect, because I can't even find anything on their website over $300.