What have i become?

I had a revelation today. I remember once years ago someone told me that when you travel abroad you should buy a few extra pairs of jeans because jeans arent common in some other countries and people will pay a lot for them depending on where you are. They told me about a trip to somewhere, i dont remember exactly, where they were selling jeans for $100 and i thought that these people were crazy for buying something that is worth like $20 for 5 times as much.

Fast forward to the present, i am thinking about what to wear when i go out with my friend this weekend and i realize that all the pants i am considering wearing to this party cost me more than $100. Up to $250 i paid for pants!!! Now, dont get me wrong, my whole wardrobe isnt made up of expensive clothes. Most of my other clothes cost me under $40, a large percentage cost under $10 (usually when i shop i keep a strict $30 limit for clothes and $50 limit for shoes). But i have a pair of Citizen's jeans, a pair of Diesel, some Armani pants and some George Bernard pants that i at some point felt compelled to buy. I dont regret it, i love the clothes. When you buy designer its easier to find pants that come in your length in your size (i am like a 27X35). After years of taking the hem out of things, you learn to value pants made for long thin legs.

But still, this struck me as ironic. How much could my $250 pants really be worth? in cloth and labor, maybe like $35 (assuming that whoever they used to make them was actualy paid). They cost origionally $1700 but i got them at the Neiman Marcus outlet and they were on sale there too cus they only had 2 pairs left, so $250 was, like, a steal. And thats SAD!