What’s The Difference Between $50 Jeans And $500 Jeans?

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A HuffPost shopping roundup asks why a pair of jeans can cost fifty dollars or five hundred, and answers with quotes from designers and a fashion professor about stitching, hem grinding, artisanal hand-washing and Japanese indigo dye.

The piece concedes that pricing is often not tied to production cost at all, then spends several hundred words describing production costs anyway. Bulk manufacturing discounts, cotton quality and brand scarcity all get credit, though the article stops short of naming the obvious variable: what a logo lets a company charge.

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You could save yourself the whole article: bigger companies get a better per-piece deal from the factory, and a smaller label without that leverage charges more for the same stitching. The rest, the artisanal washing and the deep indigo talk, is the story a store tells you so the markup feels like a decision you made. A good pair of jeans is a good pair of jeans, and most of us find that out the hard way after buying the expensive ones twice.

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