April 25, 2003

Clothes

My mobile phone rang. It was my wife, calling from a supermarket.
"Do you need any overalls?"
"For what?"
"I dunno. Working in the garden?"
"Don't I have a pair?"
"They're on sale, is why I'm asking. Green ones."
"How much?"
"€9.99."
"Sure get a pair."
"What size, 52?"
"Yeah."

In a country where Levis 501s cost more than seventy dollars, you can't just wear jeans to do yard work. You wear green overalls. To paint the house, you wear white ones. Mechanics wear blue ones. The garbagemen who block my way to work every Monday morning wear orange ones.

Posted by Mig at April 25, 2003 11:11 AM
Comments

oooh, overalls. serious working man gear!

what sort of sizing is 52? is that inches? cm? a random number selected by the european union? i need a reference point!

Posted by: Kristen at April 25, 2003 03:26 PM

yeah, Levis here cost about $150 NZ Dollars. Serious money for a pair of jeans.

Posted by: deb at April 26, 2003 07:45 AM


$10 (US) here in Bulgaria but I don't think they're genuine, that said even the rivets have Levi on them

Posted by: Dave at April 30, 2003 06:25 PM

Ok. When can I start shipping Levi's to you? Wow. What a profit margin somebody is making. Let's sell Levi's and become reeeeech lol.

That being said I do want to make a comment. I think you're so lucky to be living in, what I consider, the most beautiful part of the world. If I could only figure out a way to move there I'd do it tomorrow!!!

Posted by: Bruce at June 26, 2004 05:33 PM