The Cheap Pants Saga

    After the big closet clean-out of two weeks ago one of my biggest wardrobe goals has been to find and wear patterned pants that don't make me look like a Florida grandma. The pants above were one of my first new additions. The J. Crew website will try to convince you that they are still $80, but this is a  lie! A had a conversation with my roommate, who has a J.Crew sixth-sense, a couple days ago that went something like this:
Me: I like your pants.
Her: They're from J. Crew and they're $35 AND all of the sale is another 30% off.
Me: I'm going to have the same pants as you.
    And now I do. These pants are terrific quality, and linen and leopard print- what more could you ask for? There is also a ton of other great stuff that is heavily on sale right now, so I suggest that you, my cheapie friends, get thyselves to the air-conditioned mall.
   Speaking of the mall and cheap patterned pants, I recently stumbled into a crazy vortex of actual nice clothes. I was poking around (God help me) JC Penney, hoping to find the I Heart Ronson line that was at one time pretty amazing, when I saw these.

    Of course (shocker!) they've styled them so they look hideous. But they're not! They're black and white, Greek key patterned with a slightly high waist and very wide legs. I wore them with a with tee and some big gold jewelry and they were very ladies-who-lunch-on-a-cruise. And they were $11! I'm thinking about going back to see what secretly fashion-forward things they have to offer. It's a lot like thrift shopping: the place smells weird and mostly everything is hideous, but every once in a while there is something great that you can torture your coworkers with when you talk incessantly about it the next day.