It's casual dress day, right? Must be. Continuing on the denim theme, the
Times' Stuart Elliott writes about Lee Premium Select, a new line of men's jeans that will sell for about
$42 a pair, and
Marketing Daily's
Sarah Mahoney
told us about Levi's women's jeans line, Curve ID, that was introduced this week.
The Lee Premium Select line is positioned between the Wranglers line sold by parent company
VF and the trendy ones bearing designer labels. Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" is featured in a campaign for the product, as well as on a microsite, shopphobia.com, that takes a humorous approach
to most men's aversion to shopping. In one TV spot, Rowe looks in a store window and says: "A hundred bucks for a pair of jeans? Give me a break."
"Jeans that fit
right are like the Holy Grail for women," Mary Alderete, Levi's VP/global marketing, told Mahoney. "We analyzed women's bodies around the world, and did 60,000 body scans, and found
that 80% of all women fall into three different body types."
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