Hemming and hawing...

Style

May 10

For the most part, I consider this an "affordable style blog". I did get a pricy diaper bag and camera bag, but I wanted to pay more for those since it was important to me how they looked and how they were constructed since I use those daily. Both are holding up incredibly well. I could not be happier with my Timi & Leslie diaper bag and my Epiphanie Camera bag.

Something else I am willing to pay a little more for is denim. I don't wear jeans often, but when I do, I want them to fit me well and I want them to last. The jeans in my closet are all around five years old. The washes are a little dated (with heavy sanding on the thigh area-- no thanks!) so I've been squirreling away some money to get a few more pairs of jeans that will hopefully take me into the next five years.

My weekend purchase was a pair of 7 for All Mankind dark flare jeans. I had budgeted $150 for said jeans, but gasped aloud when I saw the exact jeans on my list piled high on a pallet at Costco for $99.00. Costco! $99.00! I used my former Buffalo Exchange buyer prowess and scoured them over for irregular stitching, worn spots, slightly misplaced rivets, or even the tell-tale sign of a bad batch (clipped or marked though tags). Nada. I quite like them:

date: 10 May 11 | occasion: watching Jude & Mitchell at home
tank: Kirra c/o PacSun (similar) | hat: Billabong c/o PacSun (similar) | wedges: TxSCC gift from Wanted | jeans: Costco (same)
I like everything about my Costco jeans except for the length. What is up with all that extra fabric? I'm tall. I'm nearly 5'9'' and there's a good five inches or so hanging off the bottom of my foot. For reference, my Wanted wedges are the tallest shoes I own at four inches tall with a one inch platform, and even while sporting those, the jeans are still a little long. I cannot imagine these jeans on a lady of average or shorter height! I contemplated hemming them myself, but Judy Aldridge (via Twitter) advised me to leave it to a professional. She's right. I mean, she should know. Her jeans are always impeccably hemmed. Lucky for me, I saw this gem on Groupon Austin today and grabbed it:$15 for jeans hemmed with the original hems put back on is phenomenal. I used to pay $35 in California.

Ugh. And speaking of jeans and hems, I broke down and got this Groupon, too:

$50 for $100 worth of designer denim at Hem Jeans in Austin? Yes, please! I should probably go back and purchase another hemming from Tailored by Design, too, now. These both end today in mere hours!