the 411 on the 501's

jeans are probably the best piece of clothing ever. you can dress them up, down, wear them however you want. i got this pair from banana republic two years ago in boulder, and they were perfect. great color, cute seaming, hugged in just the right places... but now i've got a hole forming on the inner thigh, and it's making me face the fact that i need to find a new pair of jeans. br didn't have anything like these recently, and i'm beginning to rack my brain about it. i thought i found a semi-decent replacement pair from levi's; they were in the juniors department and made of stretch materials, which was great until they grew a size. even if i wash and dry them, they're too big and saggy. then i got a pair of long and lean from gap- seemed a good idea at the time, but they don't do much, there's no bootcut, and they just sit there, clueless as to the bane of their existance in my closet. guess that's what i get for buying $29 jeans from an overly perky salesgirl. in the past three months, i've tried on jeans at macys, nordstroms, levi's, br, gap, guess, lucky, and probably just about everywhere else in the union square area, and i have yet to find that spectacular pair of jeans that will change my life forever, or at least over the next few years, due to the sky blue rinse or incredibly slimming stitching. and once i finish this jeans expedition, i'll have to move on to khakis. ugh. it's like the cycle never ends.