Bargain Hunting
The standard uniform of the young urban hipster is very skinny jeans, an ironic t-shirt, and sunglasses from the early 80s. To a man, I want to punch each and every one of them.
Because I’m not a completely terrible person (and I’d rather not get arrested), I haven’t actually done any of the brawling. But my fear of the lock-up has only made me despise them silently even more.
What does this have to do with Henry, you ask? Well, we recently purchased for Henry, by necessity mind you, a pair of skinny jeans. Let me explain.
On Sunday, the family drove out to the local open air mall (I bitched about them in a previous post) where I was to buy a new pair of pants (seeing as all my other pants are stained and torn and look quite shabby). As we headed from one disappointing shop to the next, we passed by a small, narrow store that neither Kristen nor I had seen before. It was a United Colors of Benetton kid’s clothing shop. Now, I had no clue that this company was still in existence (or whether it hadn’t disappeared for a decade or so and then reappeared in a lesser version for sale at Wal-Mart, like Ocean Pacific or Garanimals).
And since I didn’t know that the company still existed, I certainly wouldn’t have known they sold clothing for youngsters. But there were big signs yelling SALE all over the place, so we decided to take a look.
Well, those signs were lying. Except for a few racks, everything in the store was 70% off. As I love a bargain, we started to pull things off the rack.
It was not until we looked at the full price of the pants and shirts and sweaters that we quickly realized why we had never knew about this shop (and would likely not have shopped there before). Shirts were $34. Sweaters and pants were $45. Jeans were — get this — $54! For a pair of jeans that would likely not be worn longer than 6 months (if we’re lucky).
Now, we bought some stuff, got 5 or 6 things, spent around $70, a little more than I wanted to spend, but I they were good looking pants, and likely would be a bit more durable than some of the other clothes Henry has. But who in their right mind would buy anything from that store for full price? Who spends $54 on something for your 2 year old? Who has that much disposable income?
Insane.
Anyway, these jeans are a godsend. Yes, they’re skinny. Yes, they are ridiculously overpriced (albeit not when 70% off). But they fit Henry. They don’t need to be pulled up constantly or rolled over at the waist or cuffed. They’re just a nice pair of pants that will allow him to run around like a madman and not worry about tripping over a pant leg.
And, yes, he looks like a baby hipster, and, yes, I think we need to buy him some t-shirts that scream irony (do they make an “I’m with stupid” shirt in 2T?). But I don’t care. Because he has clothes that fit his skinny body and non-existent butt.
Now I guess we’ll just have to wait another 6 months for the next Benetton sale.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:29 am
All the more reason to keep his mullet.