Lost in Midlife column: To all the jeans I've loved before
***** Since I work from home, I don’t generally get dressed up for the occasion. Most of the time I consider it a successful day if I change out of my bathrobe and put on actual clothes. Because of this, I don’t have a lot of fancy clothes and most of what I do have can easily be thrown in the wash. This arrangement has always worked out fine until the day I bought a pair of “nice” jeans. These uber-high end jeans fit great but were clearly spun from gold denim, if the cost was any indication. Even though the label said they could be washed in the laundry, I was concerned that I might...