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News & ArtsTuesday, December 6, 2011
Fashion South Koreans Buying Up 501s to Imitate Steve Jobs
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM
He's an international style icon! Via the LATimes.com:
South Koreans buy tons of Apple products, but, style-wise, the jeans are the new hip thing.A poll taken by Shinsegae, a major department store here, found that the Jobs-inspired 501 look was one of the hottest sellers this year.
At $150 per pair here, the jeans cost almost as much as one of Apple’s technology products.
"In the case of Levi’s 501 jeans, they were sold out for four days at Shinsegae’s [flagship] store after Jobs passed away Oct. 5," said one store official.
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Shit- here I was about the buy round spectacles just to spite the ubiquitous rectangular frames I'm now official sick of.
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