Design 2002
You needn't pay $500 for interestingly worn-out jeans. Just visit any poor nation -- Haiti, for example -- and you'll see laboring men on every street in splendid examples. No doubt they'd gladly exchange theirs for a new pair, all for around $20. Sure, a trip to Haiti will cost you, but you'll get a bonus: a sense of how obscene it is to pay $500 so you can play at being one of the world's working poor.
The Rev. Joan A. Shelton  Washington