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Solving the BJ Equation

By BJ, I mean Boot/Jean, of course. Pervs, all of you. I want you to think long and hard (oops) about what you’d be willing to spend altogether on a pair of kickass boots and jeans. If I still had Daddy’s Amex, I would have said upwards of $400. Thankfully, I have something better than a gold card: A local thrift store.

It’s way too easy to find great jeans and boots sans budget. It’s also not nearly as fun to wear them when their respective price tags make you nauseous in retrospect.

I know, I know, you shouldn’t scrimp on jeans, which I’ve been doing extensively as of late. But I can’t help it if this $20 pair looks as fab as its $200 designer counterparts. Belted and tucked into rubber wedge snow boots (also $20) the BJ combo screams seventies coolness.

Fractions aren’t my forte, but I believe $40 is one tenth of $400 - what I would have paid, once upon a time, for jeans and boots. Many thanks, once again, to Beacon’s Closet for providing me with new versions of a few of my favorite things…at a tenth of the price.