designer jeans

“She was wearing pearl earrings and designer jeans well above her pay-grade, and she was swaying her hips to the rhythm of her cogitations.”

the mission song

“But I attended a school populated by children of academics—college professors who valued books over designer jeans and had successfully shielded their children from the knowledge that they might be missing out on current trends, as the Internet hadn’t been invented yet, and the only channels any of us got were the three major networks and PBS and Cowboy Bob on local station 4.”

Simon & Schuster: Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume

“His overprotective mother dressed him like a janitor in Dickey overalls and flannel shirts at a time — the mid-1970s — when everyone else wore designer jeans and varsity T's.”

Land of the Blind