$4.50 Fashion Fix

Loyal readers (all 3 of you) will recall my misadventures with a pair of what used to be one of the bastions of American fashion: Levi's 501s.

So, I never provided an update on my 1-800 call: I can return them to the store (an insult and annoyance to the store owner, as far as I'm concerned, as it was Levi's who created the problem, not them) or to Levi's via a return form (but no reimbursement to me for the shipping to them). So I ask for the form remorsefully, knowing I'm unlikely to return the jeans because of the cost, annoyance, and most of all, all the fun/labor I spent shrinking them to fit. So I began thinking of alternative solutions.

The easiest, and what turned out to be the cheapest and best, was simply asking my dry cleaner to mend them. She did an admirable job. And for all of $4.50. Are you kidding me? I almost kissed her when she handed them over looking just like a factory fix, folded up in their plastic bag, and told me my total.

Next episode in this (probably terribly boring) fashion story will be the jeans' debut. Stay tuned (har de har).

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